--- title: "Junfeng Tian — author profile and papers · Speech act theory" description: "Junfeng Tian: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2023), h-index 13 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junfeng-tian/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junfeng-tian/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Junfeng Tian # Junfeng Tian Junfeng Tian has 2 papers in our library, in 2020–2023, most of them on [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/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Anwen Hu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anwen-hu/), [Chenliang Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenliang-li/), [Guohai Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guohai-xu/). 2 papers in our library · 2020–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5006589025) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1759-3255) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130881334) · [**h-index 13**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5006589025) · [42 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5006589025) · [681 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5006589025&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junfeng-tian/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 80 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junfeng-tian/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4684](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/47/#star-4684) 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=Junfeng+Tian) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Junfeng+Tian) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Junfeng+Tian) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Junfeng+Tian) ## Affiliations [🏢**Alibaba Group** Hangzhou · China 2019–2023 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-group/) · [🎓**Hebei University** Baoding · China 2003–2024 · 7 papers](https://ror.org/01p884a79) · [🎓**East China Normal University** Shanghai · China 2017–2025 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/east-china-normal-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [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/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper Junfeng Tian's papers of 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ye-2023-ureader-universal-ocr-free-visually/) · [**2020** 1 paper Junfeng Tian's papers of 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2020-multi-domain-dialogue-acts-response/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[UReader: Universal OCR-free Visually-situated Language Understanding with Multimodal Large Language Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ye-2023-ureader-universal-ocr-free-visually/)** *(2023 · 128 citations)* Understanding images that contain text, such as documents, tables, charts, webpages and street photos, usually requires either an external OCR system or costly domain-specific pretraining. 2. **[Multi-Domain Dialogue Acts and Response Co-Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2020-multi-domain-dialogue-acts-response/)** *(2020 · 66 citations)* Task-oriented dialogue systems usually produce a reply in two steps. They first predict dialogue acts (domain-action-slot triples) and then generate text conditioned on those acts. The authors identify two weaknesses in this pipeline. Classifying each act separately ignores the hierarchical structure that acts share… ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[UReader: Universal OCR-free Visually-situated Language Understanding with Multimodal Large Language Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ye-2023-ureader-universal-ocr-free-visually/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Jiabo Ye, Anwen Hu, Haiyang Xu, et al.*2023 · 128 citations* 2. **[Multi-Domain Dialogue Acts and Response Co-Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2020-multi-domain-dialogue-acts-response/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Kai Wang, Junfeng Tian, Rui Wang, et al.*2020 · 66 citations* 3. **[Untie the Knots: An Efficient Data Augmentation Strategy for Long-Context Pre-Training in Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.62/) Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Junfeng Tian et al.*2025 · 7 citations* ## Co-authors here 12 of 14 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Anwen Hu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anwen-hu/) - [Chenliang Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenliang-li/) - [Guohai Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guohai-xu/) - [Haiyang Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haiyang-xu/) - [Ji Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ji-zhang/) - [Jiabo Ye](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiabo-ye/) - [Kai Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-wang/) - [Liang He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liang-he/) - [Ming Yan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ming-yan/) - [Qi Qian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qi-qian/) - [Qin Jin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qin-jin/) - [Qinghao Ye](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qinghao-ye/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) ×2: [ACL 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2020/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 80 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [10 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junfeng-tian/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026