--- title: "Wenquan Wu — author profile and papers · Dialogue systems" description: "Wenquan Wu, Baidu: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2019–2021), h-index 14 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenquan-wu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenquan-wu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Wenquan Wu # Wenquan Wu Wenquan Wu has 2 papers in our library, in 2019–2021, most of them on [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Haifeng Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haifeng-wang/), [Hua Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hua-wu/), [Zhen Guo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhen-guo/). 2 papers in our library · 2019–2021 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101573934) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7565-9569) · [**h-index 14**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101573934) · [102 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101573934) · [872 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101573934&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenquan-wu/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 114 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenquan-wu/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3965](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/40/#star-3965) 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=Wenquan+Wu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Wenquan+Wu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Wenquan+Wu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Wenquan+Wu) ## Affiliations [🏢**Baidu** Beijing · China 2019–2025 · 12 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/baidu/) · [🎓**University of Shanghai for Science and Technology** Shanghai · China 2000–2014 · 20 papers](https://ror.org/00ay9v204) · [🎓**Naval University of Engineering** Wuhan · China 2007–2022 · 12 papers](https://ror.org/056vyez31) · [🎓**Aba Teachers University** Chengdu · China 2008–2014 · 12 papers](https://ror.org/01gqdjc98) · [🎓**Fuzhou University** Fuzhou · China 2020–2023 · 5 papers](https://ror.org/011xvna82) · [🎓**Guangdong University of Foreign Studies** Guangzhou · China 2013–2017 · 4 papers](https://ror.org/00fhc9y79) · [🏛️**Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 1980–1986 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/chinese-academy-of-sciences/) · [🎓**Stevens Institute of Technology** Hoboken · United States 1987–1989 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/02z43xh36) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 8 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 4 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/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2021** 1 paper PLATO-2: Towards Building an Open-Domain Chatbot via Curriculum Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bao-2021-plato-2-building-open-domain/) ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper Proactive Human-Machine Conversation with Explicit Conversation Goal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2019-proactive-human-machine-conversation-explicit/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Proactive Human-Machine Conversation with Explicit Conversation Goal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2019-proactive-human-machine-conversation-explicit/)** *(2019 · 206 citations)* Most dialogue systems simply react to the user and do not steer the exchange. This Baidu paper defines a task in which an agent must actively guide a chat toward a preset target: a two-hop path "[start] → topic a → topic b", where each topic is an entity in a knowledge graph. The authors crawled movie and film-star… 2. **[PLATO-2: Towards Building an Open-Domain Chatbot via Curriculum Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bao-2021-plato-2-building-open-domain/)** *(2021 · 145 citations)* PLATO-2 addresses the difficulty of scaling an open-domain chatbot that explicitly models the one-to-many nature of dialogue, where a single context can have many valid replies. ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Haifeng Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haifeng-wang/) ×2 - [Hua Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hua-wu/) ×2 - [Zhen Guo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhen-guo/) ×2 - [Fan Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fan-wang/) - [Huang He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huang-he/) - [Siqi Bao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/siqi-bao/) - [Xiangyang Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiangyang-zhou/) ## 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/): [ACL 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2019/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2021/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 114 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [6 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenquan-wu/cited-by/). 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