--- title: "Liwen Hou · Harvard University — author profile and papers" description: "Liwen Hou, Harvard University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2021), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liwen-hou/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liwen-hou/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Liwen Hou # Liwen Hou Liwen Hou has 3 papers in our library, in 2018–2021, most of them on [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [David A. Smith](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-a-smith/), [David Smith](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-smith/). 3 papers in our library · 2018–2021 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5086177432) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5086177432) · [4 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5086177432) · [11 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5086177432&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liwen-hou/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 3 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liwen-hou/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9594](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/96/#star-9594) 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=Liwen+Hou) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Liwen+Hou) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Liwen+Hou) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Liwen+Hou) ## Affiliations [🎓**Harvard University** Cambridge · United States 2023 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-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 3 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Literature and Literary Theory · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/literature-and-literary-theory/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2021** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liwen-hou/year/2021/) ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liwen-hou/year/2018/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Modeling the Decline in English Passivization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hou-2018-modeling-decline-english-passivization/)** *(2018 · 7 citations)* The paper asks why the English passive has become rarer over two centuries. Using the Hansard record of British parliamentary debates, the authors show that by-phrase passives fell from about 8% of two-argument clauses in the 1830s to under 6% in the 1990s. They parsed the debates automatically with the Stanford… 2. **[Drivers of English Syntactic Change in the Canadian Parliament](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hou-2021-drivers-english-syntactic-change-canadian/)** *(2021 · 5 citations)* The paper asks why the English of the Canadian House of Commons became more conversational over the twentieth century. 3. **[Emerging English Transitives over the Last Two Centuries](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hou-2021-emerging-english-transitives-over-last/)** *(2021 · 1 citation)* The paper asks how English acquires new transitive verbs and tests two hypotheses on that question. The data is the British Hansard, two centuries of UK parliamentary debates, parsed automatically with Stanford CoreNLP. A rule layer on top of the dependency output labels each verb token as transitive (has a dobj)… ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [David A. Smith](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-a-smith/) ×2 - [David Smith](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-smith/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/scil/) ×3: [SCiL 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/scil/2021/) ×2 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 3 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liwen-hou/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026