--- title: "Wenbo Zhang — author profile and papers · Speech act theory" description: "Wenbo Zhang, University of California, Irvine: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 0 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenbo-zhang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenbo-zhang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Wenbo Zhang # Wenbo Zhang Wenbo Zhang has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Speech act theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Wenyu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenyu-chen/), [Yuhan Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuhan-wang/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5136050088) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2994-0536) · [**h-index 0**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5136050088) · [2 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5136050088) · [0 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5136050088&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenbo-zhang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1 time in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenbo-zhang/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #12638](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/127/#star-12638) 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=Wenbo+Zhang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Wenbo+Zhang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Wenbo+Zhang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Wenbo+Zhang) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of California, Irvine** Irvine · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-irvine/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Sociology and Political Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/sociology-and-political-science/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Speech act theory · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [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/wenbo-zhang/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenbo-zhang/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Act2P: LLM-Driven Online Dialogue Act Classification for Power Analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2025-act2p-llm-driven-online-dialogue/)** *(2025 · 2 citations)* Act2P tackles two linked problems. First, it labels dialogue acts in a conversation as it unfolds, without any annotated training data. Second, it uses those labels to track how power shifts among speakers. The framework runs Deepseek-v3 zero-shot and improves it in three steps: engineered prompts (category… 2. **[Beyond the Singular: Revealing the Value of Multiple Generations in Benchmark Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-beyond-singular-revealing-value-multiple/)** *(2026)* Most LLM benchmarks score a model from one output per prompt, produced either by greedy decoding or by a single random sample. ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Wenyu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenyu-chen/) - [Yuhan Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuhan-wang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/) ×2: [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/), [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1 time (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenbo-zhang/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026