--- title: "Xiaolong li — author profile and papers · Speech act theory" description: "Xiaolong li, Tencent: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaolong-li/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaolong-li/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Xiaolong li # Xiaolong li Xiaolong li has 4 papers in our library, in 2020–2026, 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 [Fanghua Ye](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fanghua-ye/), [Haolun Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haolun-wu/), [Jian Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-li/). 4 papers in our library · 2020–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5139819026) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5139819026) · [4 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5139819026) · [1 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5139819026&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaolong-li/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 7 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaolong-li/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8984](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/90/#star-8984) 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=Xiaolong+li) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Xiaolong+li) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Xiaolong+li) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Xiaolong+li) ## Affiliations [🏢**Tencent** Shenzhen · China 2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/tencent/) 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 5 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 · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Speech act theory · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Efficient models & compression · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaolong-li/year/2026/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaolong-li/year/2020/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Local Contextual Attention with Hierarchical Structure for Dialogue Act Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dai-2020-local-contextual-attention-hierarchical-structure/)** *(2020 · 15 citations)* Dialogue act (DA) recognition assigns each utterance a label for the speaker's intention, such as question, acknowledgement or greeting. 2. **[Too Good to be Bad: On the Failure of LLMs to Role-Play Villains](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yi-2026-too-good-be-bad-failure/)** *(2026 · 3 citations)* LLMs are increasingly used for interactive fiction, games and co-written stories, yet nobody had systematically checked whether they can convincingly play antagonists. 3. **[MiniMax Sparse Attention](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lai-2026-minimax-sparse-attention/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Quadratic softmax attention makes contexts of hundreds of thousands to millions of tokens too costly in production. 4. **[Context-Fidelity Boosting: Enhancing Faithful Generation through Watermark-Inspired Decoding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-context-fidelity-boosting-enhancing-faithful/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* When LLMs answer questions or summarize from a supplied passage, they often fall back on knowledge memorized in pretraining. ## Co-authors here 12 of 16 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Fanghua Ye](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fanghua-ye/) ×2 - [Haolun Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haolun-wu/) - [Jian Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-li/) - [Mengru Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mengru-wang/) - [Nan Du](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nan-du/) - [Qingxuan Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qingxuan-jiang/) - [Qu Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qu-yang/) - [Ruotian Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruotian-ma/) - [Weixu Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weixu-zhang/) - [Xingyu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xingyu-chen/) - [Yang Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yang-xu/) - [Ying Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ying-shen/) ## 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/) ×3: [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) ×2 - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 7 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaolong-li/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026