--- title: "Wen-wai Yim — author profile and papers · Question answering" description: "Wen-wai Yim, Microsoft: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 11 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wen-wai-yim/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wen-wai-yim/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Wen-wai Yim # Wen-wai Yim Wen-wai Yim has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Asma Ben Abacha](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/asma-ben-abacha/), [Fei Xia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-xia/), [Meliha Yetisgen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meliha-yetisgen/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5027015945) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9011-0817) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5027015945) · [42 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5027015945) · [681 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5027015945&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wen-wai-yim/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 55 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wen-wai-yim/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9845](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/99/#star-9845) 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=Wen-wai+Yim) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Wen-wai+Yim) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Wen-wai+Yim) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Wen-wai+Yim) ## Affiliations [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2023–2026 · 21 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🎓**University of Washington** Seattle · United States 2015–2024 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) 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 11 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/) · [General Health Professions · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/health-professions/general-health-professions/) · [Health Informatics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/health-informatics/) · [Health Professions · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/health-professions/) · [Medicine · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/) · [Molecular Biology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/molecular-biology/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Question answering · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wen-wai-yim/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[MORQA: Benchmarking Evaluation Metrics for Medical Open-Ended Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yim-2026-morqa-benchmarking-evaluation-metrics-medical/)** *(2026 · 11 citations)* Automatic scores like BLEU, ROUGE and BERTScore are poor judges of free-text medical answers. Many different answers can be equally correct, and a reply that shares wording with the reference can still be clinically wrong. The authors present MORQA (Medical Open-Response QA), a bilingual English–Chinese benchmark for… 2. **[Response Content Units: Evaluating Completeness and Proactiveness in Medical Open-Response Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/park-2026-response-content-units-evaluating-completeness/)** *(2026)* Patient messages sent through remote-care portals are often messy. They may bundle several concerns, contain no explicit question at all, or call for clinical advice the patient never asked for. Standard QA benchmarks use clean one-question-one-answer pairs, and reference-based metrics tend to penalize "extra"… ## All works 5 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. **[An Empirical Study of Clinical Note Generation from Doctor-Patient Encounters ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-main.168/) Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Asma Ben Abacha et al.*2023 · 99 citations* 2. **[MORQA: Benchmarking Evaluation Metrics for Medical Open-Ended Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yim-2026-morqa-benchmarking-evaluation-metrics-medical/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Wen-wai Yim, Asma Ben Abacha, Zixuan Yu, et al.*2026 · 11 citations* 3. **[Response Content Units: Evaluating Completeness and Proactiveness in Medical Open-Response Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/park-2026-response-content-units-evaluating-completeness/) [Workshop on Generation, Evaluation and Metrics (GEM)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/gem/)**Yongsin Park, Wen-wai Yim, Emma McKibbin, et al.*2026* 4. **[HealthAgentBench: A Unified Benchmark Suite of Realistic Agentic Healthcare Environments for Challenging Frontier AI Agents ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.31179) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Qianchu Liu et al.*2026* 5. **[Scaling medical imaging report generation with multimodal reinforcement learning ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.17151) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Qianchu Liu et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Asma Ben Abacha](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/asma-ben-abacha/) ×2 - [Fei Xia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-xia/) ×2 - [Meliha Yetisgen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meliha-yetisgen/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Workshop on Generation, Evaluation and Metrics (GEM)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/gem/): [GEM 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/gem/2026/) - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2026/) - Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 55 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [7 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wen-wai-yim/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026