--- title: "Tianyu Zhao — author profile and papers · Speech act theory" description: "Tianyu Zhao, University of California San Diego: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2017–2020), h-index 21 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianyu-zhao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianyu-zhao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Tianyu Zhao # Tianyu Zhao Tianyu Zhao has 3 papers in our library, in 2017–2020, most of them on [Speech act theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/); often with [Tatsuya Kawahara](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tatsuya-kawahara/). 3 papers in our library · 2017–2020 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5048297544) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2401-4098) · [**h-index 21**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5048297544) · [133 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5048297544) · [1,659 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5048297544&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianyu-zhao/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 15 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianyu-zhao/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5572](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/56/#star-5572) 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=Tianyu+Zhao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Tianyu+Zhao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Tianyu+Zhao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Tianyu+Zhao) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of California San Diego** San Diego · United States 2021–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-san-diego/) · [🎓**Kyoto University** Kyoto · Japan 2016–2024 · 19 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/kyoto-university/) · [🎓**Xi'an Jiaotong University** Xi'an · China 2020–2025 · 18 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/xi-an-jiaotong-university/) · [🎓**Washington University in St. Louis** St Louis · United States 2016–2025 · 17 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/washington-university-in-st-louis/) · [🎓**Harbin Institute of Technology** Harbin · China 2008–2024 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harbin-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**East China University of Science and Technology** Shanghai · China 2022–2023 · 7 papers](https://ror.org/01vyrm377) · [🏛️**Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2017–2021 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/chinese-academy-of-sciences/) · [🔬**Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics** Xi'an · China 2017–2021 · 6 papers](https://ror.org/0444j5556) · [🔬**State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics** Xi'an 2019–2021 · 5 papers](https://ror.org/025hkeg57) · [🎓**Qiqihar Medical University** Qiqihar · China 2021–2025 · 4 papers](https://ror.org/01kzgyz42) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 16 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 5 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/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Signal Processing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/signal-processing/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Dialogue systems · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Speech act theory · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [Speech & spoken language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2020** 1 paper End-to-end speech-to-dialog-act recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dang-2020-end-end-speech-dialog-act/) ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper A Unified Neural Architecture for Joint Dialog Act Segmentation and Recognition in Spoken Dialog System](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2018-unified-neural-architecture-joint-dialog/) · [**2017** 1 paper Joint Learning of Dialog Act Segmentation and Recognition in Spoken Dialog Using Neural Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2017-joint-learning-dialog-act-segmentation/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[End-to-end speech-to-dialog-act recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dang-2020-end-end-speech-dialog-act/)** *(2020 · 11 citations)* Recognizing dialog acts (DAs) from speech usually works as a pipeline. An ASR system writes a transcript, and a separate classifier, trained on clean human transcripts, labels it. Recognition mistakes then spread downstream, and acoustic cues such as pauses are discarded. The authors replace this chain with a single… 2. **[Joint Learning of Dialog Act Segmentation and Recognition in Spoken Dialog Using Neural Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2017-joint-learning-dialog-act-segmentation/)** *(2017 · 10 citations)* Spoken dialog systems work on ASR output or transcripts, which have no punctuation. Before an utterance can be assigned a dialog act (DA) such as Greeting or Statement, it must first be split into DA units. Zhao and Kawahara treat this splitting as word-level sequence labeling with an "IE" scheme (inside / end of… 3. **[A Unified Neural Architecture for Joint Dialog Act Segmentation and Recognition in Spoken Dialog System](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2018-unified-neural-architecture-joint-dialog/)** *(2018 · 8 citations)* Spoken dialog systems need to know both where each dialog act (DA) begins and ends inside a turn and which act it is, such as Statement, Backchannel or Yes-No-Question. ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Tatsuya Kawahara](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tatsuya-kawahara/) ×3 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ijcnlp/): [IJCNLP 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ijcnlp/2017/) - [Interspeech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/interspeech-usb/): [Interspeech 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/interspeech-usb/2020/) - [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/): [SIGDIAL 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2018/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 15 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [5 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianyu-zhao/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026