--- title: "Lingyong Yan — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Lingyong Yan, Baidu: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2023), h-index 9 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lingyong-yan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lingyong-yan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Lingyong Yan # Lingyong Yan Lingyong Yan has 2 papers in our library, in 2021–2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Knowledge graphs & ontologies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/knowledge-graphs/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/); often with [Boxi Cao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/boxi-cao/), [Dawei Yin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dawei-yin/), [Hongyu Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hongyu-lin/). 2 papers in our library · 2021–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5050161084) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6547-1984) · [**h-index 9**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5050161084) · [57 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5050161084) · [517 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5050161084&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lingyong-yan/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 320 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lingyong-yan/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #2954](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/30/#star-2954) 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=Lingyong+Yan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Lingyong+Yan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Lingyong+Yan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Lingyong+Yan) ## Affiliations [🏢**Baidu** Beijing · China 2023–2026 · 36 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/baidu/) · [🎓**University of Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2020–2021 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences/) · [🔬**Institute of Software** Beijing · China 2021 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/institute-of-software/) · [🏛️**Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2020–2021 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/chinese-academy-of-sciences/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 6 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/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Knowledge graphs & ontologies · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/knowledge-graphs/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper Is ChatGPT Good at Search? Investigating Large Language Models as Re-Ranking Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2023-chatgpt-good-search-investigating-large/) · [**2021** 1 paper Knowledgeable or Educated Guess? Revisiting Language Models as Knowledge Bases](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cao-2021-knowledgeable-or-educated-guess-revisiting/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Is ChatGPT Good at Search? Investigating Large Language Models as Re-Ranking Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2023-chatgpt-good-search-investigating-large/)** *(2023 · 494 citations)* The paper asks whether instruction-following LLMs such as ChatGPT and GPT-4 can rank search results directly, not just generate queries or passages. 2. **[Knowledgeable or Educated Guess? Revisiting Language Models as Knowledge Bases](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cao-2021-knowledgeable-or-educated-guess-revisiting/)** *(2021 · 141 citations)* Do masked language models such as BERT actually store retrievable facts, or do they mainly exploit regularities in how they are evaluated? Cao et al. ## 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. **[Is ChatGPT Good at Search? Investigating Large Language Models as Re-Ranking Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2023-chatgpt-good-search-investigating-large/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Weiwei Sun, Lingyong Yan, Xinyu Ma, et al.*2023 · 494 citations* 2. **[Knowledgeable or Educated Guess? Revisiting Language Models as Knowledge Bases](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cao-2021-knowledgeable-or-educated-guess-revisiting/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Boxi Cao, Hongyu Lin, Xianpei Han, et al.*2021 · 141 citations* 3. **[Reasoning-to-Defend: Safety-Aware Reasoning Can Defend Large Language Models from Jailbreaking](https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.1493/) Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · original ↗ · no summary yet**Junda Zhu et al.*2025 · 21 citations* ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Boxi Cao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/boxi-cao/) - [Dawei Yin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dawei-yin/) - [Hongyu Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hongyu-lin/) - [Jin Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jin-xu/) - [Le Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/le-sun/) - [Meng Liao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meng-liao/) - [Shuaiqiang Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuaiqiang-wang/) - [Weiwei Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weiwei-sun/) - [Xianpei Han](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xianpei-han/) - [Zhaochun Ren](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhaochun-ren/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/) ×2: [EMNLP 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2023/) - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2021/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 320 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [15 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lingyong-yan/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026