--- title: "Weiran Xu — author profile and papers · Information extraction" description: "Weiran Xu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2021), h-index 19 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weiran-xu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weiran-xu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Weiran Xu # Weiran Xu Weiran Xu has 2 papers in our library, in 2018–2021, most of them on [Information extraction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/); often with [Wei Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-wu/), [William Yang Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-yang-wang/). 2 papers in our library · 2018–2021 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5016651990) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9416-7666) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130917044) · [**h-index 19**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5016651990) · [131 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5016651990) · [2,052 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5016651990&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weiran-xu/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 235 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weiran-xu/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #2300](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/23/#star-2300) 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=Weiran+Xu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Weiran+Xu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Weiran+Xu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Weiran+Xu) ## Affiliations [🎓**Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications** Beijing · China 2005–2026 · 111 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beijing-university-of-posts-and-telecommunications/) · [🎓**Tsinghua University** Beijing · China 2022–2023 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tsinghua-university/) · [🎓**Peking University** Beijing · China 2023–2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/peking-university/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🏥**Beijing Tian Tan Hospital** Beijing · China 2023–2024 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/003regz62) · [🎓**Capital Medical University** Beijing · China 2023–2024 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/013xs5b60) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 6 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 5 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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Information extraction · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2021** 1 paper Weiran Xu's papers of 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yan-2021-consert-contrastive-framework-self-supervised/) ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper Weiran Xu's papers of 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qin-2018-robust-distant-supervision-relation-extraction/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[ConSERT: A Contrastive Framework for Self-Supervised Sentence Representation Transfer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yan-2021-consert-contrastive-framework-self-supervised/)** *(2021 · 648 citations)* Sentence vectors taken directly from BERT, whether the [CLS] output or averaged token embeddings, behave poorly on semantic textual similarity (STS). 2. **[Robust Distant Supervision Relation Extraction via Deep Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qin-2018-robust-distant-supervision-relation-extraction/)** *(2018 · 297 citations)* Distant supervision labels training sentences automatically by aligning a knowledge base (Freebase) with raw text. ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Wei Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-wu/) - [William Yang Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-yang-wang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) ×2: [ACL 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2021/), [ACL 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2018/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 235 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [8 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weiran-xu/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026