--- title: "Stephen Wan — author profile and papers · Discourse analysis" description: "Stephen Wan, University of Technology Sydney: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 18 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-wan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-wan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Stephen Wan # Stephen Wan Stephen Wan has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Michael Strube](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-strube/), [Wei Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-liu/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5008748003) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7505-1417) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130948966) · [**h-index 18**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5008748003) · [99 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5008748003) · [1,688 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5008748003&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-wan/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 61 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-wan/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9569](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/96/#star-9569) 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=Stephen+Wan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Stephen+Wan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Stephen+Wan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Stephen+Wan) ## Affiliations [🏛️**Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation** Canberra · Australia 2000–2026 · 73 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/commonwealth-scientific-and-industrial-research-organisation/) · [🔬**Data61** Sydney · Australia 2015–2026 · 27 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/data61/) · [🎓**University of Technology Sydney** Sydney · Australia 2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-technology-sydney/) · [🎓**Macquarie University** Sydney · Australia 1998–2021 · 14 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/macquarie-university/) · [🔬**Information and Communication Technologies Centre** Sydney · Australia 2006–2021 · 13 papers](https://ror.org/034x2fx50) 🏛️**CSIRO Data61** Sydney · [Australia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/australia/) 2010Employment since 2010 · Research Team Leader/Senior Research Scientist, Data61 From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 9 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Philosophy · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/philosophy/) · [Decision Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Information Systems and Management · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/information-systems-and-management/) · [Materials Chemistry · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/materials-science/materials-chemistry/) · [Materials Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/materials-science/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Discourse analysis · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-wan/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-wan/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[What Causes the Failure of Explicit to Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2024-what-causes-failure-explicit-implicit/)** *(2024 · 12 citations)* Classifiers for implicit discourse relations are often trained on explicit examples with their connectives removed, but they do poorly on genuine implicit data. 2. **[MetaLead: A Comprehensive Human-Curated Leaderboard Dataset for Transparent Reporting of Machine Learning Experiments](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/timmer-2026-metalead-comprehensive-human-curated-leaderboard/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Leaderboards are the standard way to compare machine learning models, but curating them by hand is costly. ## All works 4 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. **[Using Dependency-Based Features to Take the ‘Para-farce' out of Paraphrase ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U06-1019/) Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2006 · no summary yet**Stephen Wan et al.*2006 · 186 citations* 2. **[Towards Statistical Paraphrase Generation: Preliminary Evaluations of Grammaticality ↗](https://aclanthology.org/I05-5012/) Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Paraphrasing (IWP2005) · no summary yet**Stephen Wan et al.*2005 · 13 citations* 3. **[What Causes the Failure of Explicit to Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2024-what-causes-failure-explicit-implicit/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Wei Liu, Stephen Wan, Michael Strube*2024 · 12 citations* 4. **[MetaLead: A Comprehensive Human-Curated Leaderboard Dataset for Transparent Reporting of Machine Learning Experiments](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/timmer-2026-metalead-comprehensive-human-curated-leaderboard/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Roelien C. Timmer, Necva Bölücü, Stephen Wan*2026 · 2 citations* ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Michael Strube](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-strube/) - [Wei Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-liu/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [NAACL 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2024/) - Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2006 - Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Paraphrasing (IWP2005) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 61 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [14 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-wan/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026