--- title: "Xiang Chen · Sun Yat-sen University — author profile and papers" description: "Xiang Chen, Sun Yat-sen University: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2026), h-index 38 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-chen/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-chen/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Xiang Chen # Xiang Chen Xiang Chen has 4 papers in our library, in 2022–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/); often with [Tong Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tong-yu/), [Julian McAuley](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julian-mcauley/), [Yu Xia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-xia/). 4 papers in our library · 2022–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100441911) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1180-3891) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57416255) · [**h-index 38**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100441911) · [426 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100441911) · [5,647 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100441911&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-chen/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 177 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-chen/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5790](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/58/#star-5790) 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=Xiang+Chen) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Xiang+Chen) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Xiang+Chen) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Xiang+Chen) ## Affiliations [🎓**Nantong University** Nantong · China 2004–2026 · 198 papersEmployment since 2011 · Associate Professor*current*](https://ror.org/02afcvw97) · [🎓**Nanjing University** Nanjing · China 2006–2026 · 38 papersEducation 2006–2011 · Phd*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nanjing-university/) · [🎓**Sun Yat-sen University** Guangzhou · China 2019–2026 · 11 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/sun-yat-sen-university/) · [🎓**Yunnan University** Kunming · China 2024–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/yunnan-university/) · [🏢**State Grid Zhejiang Electric Power Company** Hangzhou · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/011kx0q31) · [🎓**Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics** Nanjing · China 2006–2024 · 12 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nanjing-university-of-aeronautics-and-astronautics/) · [🎓**Zhejiang University** Hangzhou · China 2021–2025 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/zhejiang-university/) · [🏛️**Ministry of Industry and Information Technology** Beijing · China 2021–2023 · 10 papers](https://ror.org/0385nmy68) · [🏢**Adobe Systems** San Jose · United States 2020–2024 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/adobe-systems/) · [🎓**Minjiang University** Fuzhou · China 2009–2021 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/minjiang-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 75 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 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Information Systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Software · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/software/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-chen/year/2026/) · [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-chen/year/2025/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-chen/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Reasoning with Language Model Prompting: A Survey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qiao-2022-reasoning-language-model-prompting-survey/)** *(2022 · 161 citations)* This survey maps the fast-growing work on getting large language models to reason through prompting rather than through task-specific architectures. 2. **[Beyond Chain-of-Thought: A Survey of Chain-of-X Paradigms for LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xia-2025-beyond-chain-thought-survey-chain/)** *(2025 · 19 citations)* Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting showed that LLMs reason better when they write out intermediate steps before giving an answer. 3. **[Doc-React: Multi-page Heterogeneous Document Question-answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2025-doc-react-multi-page-heterogeneous/)** *(2025 · 6 citations)* Doc-React tackles question answering over long documents whose pages mix text, charts and images in irregular layouts. 4. **[Skill Discovery for Software Scripting Automation via Offline Simulations with LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2026-skill-discovery-software-scripting-automation/)** *(2026 · 3 citations)* The paper addresses how to make software scripting accessible to users who lack programming skills or knowledge of an application's API. ## All works 5 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. [**Reasoning with Language Model Prompting: A Survey arXiv:2212.09597**Shuofei Qiao, Yixin Ou, Ningyu Zhang, et al.*2022 · 161 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qiao-2022-reasoning-language-model-prompting-survey/) 2. **[DeepKE: A Deep Learning Based Knowledge Extraction Toolkit for Knowledge Base Population ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-demos.10/) Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations · no summary yet**Ningyu Zhang et al.*2022 · 60 citations* 3. **[Beyond Chain-of-Thought: A Survey of Chain-of-X Paradigms for LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xia-2025-beyond-chain-thought-survey-chain/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Yu Xia, Rui Wang, Xu Liu, et al.*2025 · 19 citations* 4. **[Doc-React: Multi-page Heterogeneous Document Question-answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2025-doc-react-multi-page-heterogeneous/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Junda Wu, Yu Xia, Tong Yu, et al.*2025 · 6 citations* 5. **[Skill Discovery for Software Scripting Automation via Offline Simulations with LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2026-skill-discovery-software-scripting-automation/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Paiheng Xu, Gang Wu, Xiang Chen, et al.*2026 · 3 citations* ## Co-authors here 12 of 23 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Tong Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tong-yu/) ×3 - [Julian McAuley](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julian-mcauley/) ×2 - [Yu Xia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-xia/) ×2 - [Chuanqi Tan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chuanqi-tan/) - [Fei Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-huang/) - [Franck Dernoncourt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/franck-dernoncourt/) - [Gang Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gang-wu/) - [Huajun Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huajun-chen/) - [Junda Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junda-wu/) - [Ningyu Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ningyu-zhang/) - [Rui Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rui-wang/) - [Ruiyi Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruiyi-zhang/) ## 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 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) - [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/): [COLING 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/2025/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) - Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 177 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [36 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-chen/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026