--- title: "Kun Qian — author profile and papers · Dialogue systems" description: "Kun Qian, University of Southern Denmark: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2024), h-index 16 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kun-qian/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kun-qian/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kun Qian # Kun Qian Kun Qian has 3 papers in our library, in 2020–2024, most of them on [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Zhou Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhou-yu/), [Caiming Xiong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/caiming-xiong/), [Huan Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huan-wang/). 3 papers in our library · 2020–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5005099484) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8868-0407) · [**h-index 16**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5005099484) · [40 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5005099484) · [1,144 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5005099484&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kun-qian/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 179 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kun-qian/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5385](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/54/#star-5385) 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=Kun+Qian) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kun+Qian) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kun+Qian) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kun+Qian) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Southern Denmark** Odense · Denmark 2019–2026 · 8 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-denmark/) · [🎓**The University of Texas at Austin** Austin · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-texas-at-austin/) · [🔬**IBM Research - Almaden** San Jose · United States 2017–2020 · 10 papersEmployment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-almaden/) · [🎓**University of California, Davis** Davis · United States 2019–2021 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-davis/) · [🏢**IBM** Armonk · United States 2018–2021 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) · [🎓**Columbia University** New York · United States 2021–2024 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) · [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2021 · 2 papersEmployment since 2021 · Applied Scientist](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) · [🎓**University of California, Santa Cruz** Santa Cruz · United States 2017 · 1 paperEducation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-santa-cruz/) · [🎓**Beihang University** Beijing · China Education](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beihang-university/) · [🎓**Chongqing University** Chongqing · China Education](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/chongqing-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 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 4 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/) 🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Interpretability · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kun-qian/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kun-qian/year/2023/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kun-qian/year/2020/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[A Survey of the State of Explainable AI for Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/danilevsky-2020-survey-state-explainable-ai-natural/)** *(2020 · 294 citations)* Modern NLP has moved from transparent methods such as rules, decision trees and HMMs to deep neural models and embeddings. 2. **[DialogStudio: Towards Richest and Most Diverse Unified Dataset Collection for Conversational AI](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2023-dialogstudio-towards-richest-most-diverse/)** *(2023 · 21 citations)* Conversational models often struggle across varied dialogue tasks because training data is fragmented, small, task-specific and stored in inconsistent formats. 3. **[DECOR: Improving Coherence in L2 English Writing with a Novel Benchmark for Incoherence Detection, Reasoning, and Rewriting](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2024-decor-improving-coherence-l2-english/)** *(2024 · 5 citations)* Second-language (L2) English learners often struggle with discourse coherence. Existing automated writing evaluation tools mostly assign a coherence score based on shallow linguistic features and do not help learners fix the problem. The authors present DECOR, a benchmark built from 100 medium-level TOEFL-11 essays.… ## 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. **[A Survey of the State of Explainable AI for Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/danilevsky-2020-survey-state-explainable-ai-natural/) [Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/aacl/)**Marina Danilevsky, Kun Qian, Ranit Aharonov, et al.*2020 · 294 citations* 2. **[Domain Adaptive Dialog Generation via Meta Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P19-1253/) Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Kun Qian, Zhou Yu*2019 · 178 citations* 3. **[Low-resource Deep Entity Resolution with Transfer and Active Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P19-1586/) Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Jungo Kasai et al.*2019 · 154 citations* 4. **[DialogStudio: Towards Richest and Most Diverse Unified Dataset Collection for Conversational AI](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2023-dialogstudio-towards-richest-most-diverse/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Jianguo Zhang, Kun Qian, Zhiwei Liu, et al.*2023 · 21 citations* 5. **[DECOR: Improving Coherence in L2 English Writing with a Novel Benchmark for Incoherence Detection, Reasoning, and Rewriting](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2024-decor-improving-coherence-l2-english/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Xuanming Zhang, Anthony Diaz, Zixun Chen, et al.*2024 · 5 citations* ## Co-authors here 12 of 15 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Zhou Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhou-yu/) ×2 - [Caiming Xiong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/caiming-xiong/) - [Huan Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huan-wang/) - [Jianguo Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianguo-zhang/) - [Marina Danilevsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marina-danilevsky/) - [Prithviraj Sen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/prithviraj-sen/) - [Qingyang Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qingyang-wu/) - [Ranit Aharonov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ranit-aharonov/) - [Rui Meng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rui-meng/) - [Shelby Heinecke](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shelby-heinecke/) - [Silvio Savarese](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/silvio-savarese/) - [Xuanming Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuanming-zhang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics ×2 - [Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/aacl/): [AACL 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/aacl/2020/) - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2024/) - [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 179 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [24 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kun-qian/cited-by/). 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