--- title: "Julian Hough · Swansea University — author profile and papers" description: "Julian Hough, Swansea University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2026), h-index 20 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julian-hough/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julian-hough/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Julian Hough # Julian Hough Julian Hough has 3 papers in our library, in 2021–2026, most of them on [Word sense disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/), [Speech act theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Nicholas Micallef](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicholas-micallef/), [Matthew Purver](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-purver/). 3 papers in our library · 2021–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5044827963) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4345-6759) · [**h-index 20**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5044827963) · [85 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5044827963) · [1,101 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5044827963&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julian-hough/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 31 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julian-hough/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9931](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/100/#star-9931) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Julian+Hough) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Julian+Hough) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Julian+Hough) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Julian+Hough) ## Affiliations [🎓**Swansea University** Swansea · United Kingdom 2023–2026 · 15 papersEmployment since 2023 · Associate Professor, School of Mathematics and Computer Science*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/swansea-university/) · [🎓**Bielefeld University** Bielefeld · Germany 2014–2020 · 30 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bielefeld-university/) · [🎓**Queen Mary University of London** London · United Kingdom 2011–2023 · 21 papersEmployment 2018–2023 · Lecturer, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/queen-mary-university-of-london/) · [🎓**University of London** London · United Kingdom 2014–2021 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-london/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Medicine · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/) · [Psychiatry and Mental health · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/psychiatry-and-mental-health/) 🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Word sense disambiguation · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/) · [Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Speech act theory · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julian-hough/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julian-hough/year/2024/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julian-hough/year/2021/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Rare-Class Dialogue Act Tagging for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nasreen-2021-rare-class-dialogue-act-tagging/)** *(2021 · 13 citations)* Dialogue act (DA) taggers are usually tuned for average accuracy, so they handle frequent tags well and largely miss rare ones. 2. **[Can LLMs assist with Ambiguity? A Quantitative Evaluation of various Large Language Models on Word Sense Disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sumanathilaka-2024-llms-assist-ambiguity-quantitative-evaluation/)** *(2024 · 11 citations)* Large language models are tested here on Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD), especially for highly polysemous English words with many noun and verb senses, where classic supervised systems struggle because labelled data is scarce. 3. **[SwanNLP at SemEval-2026 Task 5: An LLM-based Framework for Plausibility Scoring in Narrative Word Sense Disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sumanathilaka-2026-swannlp-semeval-2026-task-5/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* This paper describes the SwanNLP system for SemEval-2026 Task 5. The task asks systems to predict how plausible humans find a given sense of a homonym inside a short story, on a 1–5 scale. The data come from the AmbiStory dataset. Each instance has a multi-sentence precontext, an ambiguous sentence and sometimes an… ## All works 5 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Alzheimer’s Dementia Recognition Using Acoustic, Lexical, Disfluency and Speech Pause Features Robust to Noisy Inputs ↗](https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2021-1633) Interspeech (USB) · no summary yet**Morteza Rohanian, Julian Hough, Matthew Purver*2021 · 65 citations* 2. **[Detecting Depression with Word-Level Multimodal Fusion ↗](https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2019-2283) Interspeech (USB) · no summary yet**Morteza Rohanian, Julian Hough, Matthew Purver*2019 · 55 citations* 3. **[Rare-Class Dialogue Act Tagging for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nasreen-2021-rare-class-dialogue-act-tagging/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**Shamila Nasreen, Julian Hough, Matthew Purver*2021 · 13 citations* 4. [**Can LLMs assist with Ambiguity? A Quantitative Evaluation of various Large Language Models on Word Sense Disambiguation arXiv:2411.18337**T.G.D.K. Sumanathilaka, Nicholas Micallef, Julian Hough*2024 · 11 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sumanathilaka-2024-llms-assist-ambiguity-quantitative-evaluation/) 5. **[SwanNLP at SemEval-2026 Task 5: An LLM-based Framework for Plausibility Scoring in Narrative Word Sense Disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sumanathilaka-2026-swannlp-semeval-2026-task-5/) [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/)**Deshan Sumanathilaka, Nicholas Micallef, Julian Hough, et al.*2026 · 1 citation* ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Nicholas Micallef](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicholas-micallef/) ×2 - [Matthew Purver](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-purver/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - Interspeech (USB) ×2 - [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/): [SemEval 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2026/) - [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/): [SIGDIAL 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2021/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 31 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [4 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julian-hough/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026