--- title: "Xiaozhong Liu — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Xiaozhong Liu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 5 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 24 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaozhong-liu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaozhong-liu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Xiaozhong Liu # Xiaozhong Liu Xiaozhong Liu has 5 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Yang Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yang-wu/), [Zhuoren Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhuoren-jiang/), [Rujing Yao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rujing-yao/). 5 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101985030) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3477-8323) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67388492) · [**h-index 24**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101985030) · [227 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101985030) · [2,397 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101985030&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 5 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaozhong-liu/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 152 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaozhong-liu/cited-by/) · [7 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #12100](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/121/#star-12100) 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=Xiaozhong+Liu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Xiaozhong+Liu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Xiaozhong+Liu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Xiaozhong+Liu) ## Affiliations [🎓**Worcester Polytechnic Institute** Worcester · United States 2021–2026 · 105 papersEmployment since 2021 · Professor, Computer Science/Data Science*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/worcester-polytechnic-institute/) · [🎓**Indiana University Bloomington** Bloomington · United States 2011–2024 · 117 papersEmployment 2011–2017 · Assistant Professor, School of Informatics, Computing and EngineeringEmployment since 2017 · Associate Professor, School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indiana-university-bloomington/) · [🎓**Indiana University** Bloomington · United States 2011–2023 · 61 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indiana-university/) · [🎓**Syracuse University** Syracuse · United States 2005–2011 · 15 papersEducation 2005–2011 · PhD in Information Science and Technology, iSchool](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/syracuse-university/) · [🏢**Alibaba Group** Hangzhou · China 2018–2023 · 12 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-group/) · [🎓**University of California, Davis** Davis · United States 2026 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-davis/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 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 13 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 5 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/) · [Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Political Science and International Relations · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/political-science-and-international-relations/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Health Informatics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/health-informatics/) · [Medicine · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/) · [Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Molecular Biology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/molecular-biology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Social Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/social-psychology/) 🧭 Topics 7 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Legal AI · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/legal-ai/) · [Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaozhong-liu/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[LeCoDe: A Benchmark Dataset for Interactive Legal Consultation Dialogue Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yuan-2026-lecode-benchmark-dataset-interactive-legal/)** *(2026 · 3 citations)* LeCoDe addresses the difficulty of evaluating LLMs as legal consultants. Real consultations involve users with little legal knowledge who give vague, incomplete descriptions, so a competent expert must ask targeted follow-up questions before giving advice. Prior resources are mostly single-turn QA pairs or… 2. **[Beyond Local vs. External: A Game-Theoretic Framework for Trustworthy Knowledge Acquisition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yao-2026-beyond-local-vs-external-game/)** *(2026)* The paper addresses a dilemma in using LLMs for sensitive work. Cloud-hosted models such as GPT-5 give strong answers, but sending them raw queries can reveal confidential research or legal intent. Purely local models keep data private but answer less well. The authors propose GTKA, a client-side, semantic-level… 3. **[From Individual Excellence to Collective Sustainability: Seeking Strategic Equilibrium in Proactive Multi-Agent Teams](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-individual-excellence-collective-sustainability-seeking/)** *(2026)* The paper addresses a weakness of proactive LLM agents that coordinate heterogeneous research teams. When they optimize only for immediate task accuracy, they keep sending work to the strongest member, typically the PI, while junior researchers stay idle. The authors call this the Individual-centric Trap. Their… 4. **[PubMed Reasoner: Dynamic Reasoning-based Retrieval for Evidence-Grounded Biomedical Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-pubmed-reasoner-dynamic-reasoning-based/)** *(2026)* Biomedical question answering needs answers that are both correct and supported by current, checkable literature. 5. **[“Excuse me, may I say something...” CoLabScience, A Proactive AI Assistant for Biomedical Discovery and LLM-Expert Collaborations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2026-excuse-me-may-i-say/)** *(2026)* Most LLM assistants for science are reactive: they speak only when asked. In a live research meeting, that means useful remarks may never be made. This paper presents CoLabScience, an assistant that follows biomedical team discussions as they unfold and decides on its own when to contribute and what to say. ## All works 12 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 5 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[De-Biased Court's View Generation with Causality ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.56/) Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · no summary yet**Yiquan Wu et al.*2020 · 117 citations* 2. **[Precedent-Enhanced Legal Judgment Prediction with LLM and Domain-Model Collaboration ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.740/) Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Yiquan Wu et al.*2023 · 104 citations* 3. **[Legal Judgment Prediction with Multi-Stage CaseRepresentation Learning in the Real Court Setting ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462945) arXiv:2107.05192 · no summary yet**Luyao Ma et al.*2021 · 56 citations* 4. **[Can Large Language Models Grasp Legal Theories? Enhance Legal Reasoning with Insights from Multi-Agent Collaboration ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.445/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024 · no summary yet**Weikang Yuan et al.*2024 · 28 citations* 5. **[Knowledge-Infused Legal Wisdom: Navigating LLM Consultation through the Lens of Diagnostics and Positive-Unlabeled Reinforcement Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.918/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024 · no summary yet**Yang Wu et al.*2024 · 18 citations* 6. **[Elevating Legal LLM Responses: Harnessing Trainable Logical Structures and Semantic Knowledge with Legal Reasoning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-long.290/) Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Rujing Yao et al.*2025 · 17 citations* 7. **[Intelligent Legal Assistant: An Interactive Clarification System for Legal Question Answering ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07904) arXiv:2502.07904 · no summary yet**Rujing Yao et al.*2025 · 10 citations* 8. **[LeCoDe: A Benchmark Dataset for Interactive Legal Consultation Dialogue Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yuan-2026-lecode-benchmark-dataset-interactive-legal/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Weikang Yuan, Kaisong Song, Zhuoren Jiang, et al.*2026 · 3 citations* 9. **[Beyond Local vs. External: A Game-Theoretic Framework for Trustworthy Knowledge Acquisition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yao-2026-beyond-local-vs-external-game/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Rujing Yao, Yufei Shi, Yang Wu, et al.*2026* 10. **[From Individual Excellence to Collective Sustainability: Seeking Strategic Equilibrium in Proactive Multi-Agent Teams](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-individual-excellence-collective-sustainability-seeking/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Tong Zhang, Yang Wu, Yufei Shi, et al.*2026* 11. **[PubMed Reasoner: Dynamic Reasoning-based Retrieval for Evidence-Grounded Biomedical Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-pubmed-reasoner-dynamic-reasoning-based/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Yiqing Zhang, Xiaozhong Liu, Fabricio Murai*2026* 12. **[“Excuse me, may I say something...” CoLabScience, A Proactive AI Assistant for Biomedical Discovery and LLM-Expert Collaborations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2026-excuse-me-may-i-say/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Yang Wu, Jinhong Yu, Jingwei Xiong, et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 12 of 14 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Yang Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yang-wu/) ×3 - [Zhuoren Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhuoren-jiang/) ×3 - [Rujing Yao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rujing-yao/) ×2 - [Yufei Shi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yufei-shi/) ×2 - [Ang Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ang-li/) - [Haixu Tang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haixu-tang/) - [Ji Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ji-zhang/) - [Jingwei Xiong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jingwei-xiong/) - [Junjie Cao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junjie-cao/) - [Kaisong Song](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaisong-song/) - [Kun Kuang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kun-kuang/) - [Tong Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tong-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/) ×3: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) ×3 - [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/) ×2 - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) ×2 - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024 - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024 - Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 152 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [17 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaozhong-liu/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026