--- title: "Xifeng Yan — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Xifeng Yan, University of California, Santa Barbara: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2024), h-index 67 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xifeng-yan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xifeng-yan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Xifeng Yan # Xifeng Yan Xifeng Yan has 2 papers in our library, in 2020–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Text generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Wanrong Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wanrong-zhu/), [Wenhu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenhu-chen/), [William Yang Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-yang-wang/). 2 papers in our library · 2020–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5047709762) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6508-4792) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93502825) · [**h-index 67**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5047709762) · [257 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5047709762) · [20,448 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5047709762&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xifeng-yan/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 393 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xifeng-yan/cited-by/) · [9 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5752](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/58/#star-5752) 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=Xifeng+Yan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Xifeng+Yan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Xifeng+Yan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Xifeng+Yan) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of California, Santa Barbara** Santa Barbara · United States 2008–2026 · 163 papersEmployment since 2008 · Professor, Computer Science*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-santa-barbara/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2003–2007 · 36 papersEducation until 2006](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🔬**IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center** Yorktown Heights · United States 2007–2009 · 15 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-thomas-j-watson-research-center/) · [🏢**IBM** Armonk · United States 2007–2009 · 13 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) · [🎓**The Ohio State University** Columbus · United States 2018–2019 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-ohio-state-university/) · [🎓**University of Illinois System** Urbana · United States 2005–2007 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-system/) · [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 2007 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 6 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Text generation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xifeng-yan/year/2024/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xifeng-yan/year/2020/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[KGPT: Knowledge-Grounded Pre-Training for Data-to-Text Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2020-kgpt-knowledge-grounded-pre-training/)** *(2020 · 174 citations)* Neural data-to-text systems usually need large annotated datasets for each task, which makes moving to new domains expensive. 2. **[MMSci: A Dataset for Graduate-Level Multi-Discipline Multimodal Scientific Understanding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2024-mmsci-dataset-graduate-level-multi/)** *(2024 · 20 citations)* Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) are increasingly pitched as research assistants, but existing benchmarks mostly test simple charts or figures from a narrow set of fields. ## All works 11 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[KGPT: Knowledge-Grounded Pre-Training for Data-to-Text Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2020-kgpt-knowledge-grounded-pre-training/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Wenhu Chen, Yu Su, Xifeng Yan, et al.*2020 · 174 citations* 2. **[Semantically Conditioned Dialog Response Generation via Hierarchical Disentangled Self-Attention ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P19-1360/) Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Wenhu Chen et al.*2019 · 173 citations* 3. **[On Generating Characteristic-rich Question Sets for QA Evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D16-1054/) Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Yu Su et al.*2016 · 151 citations* 4. **[Variational Knowledge Graph Reasoning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N18-1165/) Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers) · no summary yet**Wenhu Chen et al.*2018 · 137 citations* 5. **[Cross-domain Semantic Parsing via Paraphrasing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D17-1127/) Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Yu Su, Xifeng Yan*2017 · 121 citations* 6. **[Explanations from Large Language Models Make Small Reasoners Better ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.06726) arXiv:2210.06726 · no summary yet**Shiyang Li et al.*2022 · 120 citations* 7. **[Mining evidences for named entity disambiguation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2487575.2487681) ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) · no summary yet**Yang Li et al.*2013 · 101 citations* 8. **[DialSQL: Dialogue Based Structured Query Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P18-1124/) Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Izzeddin Gur et al.*2018 · 94 citations* 9. **[Improving Semantic Parsing via Answer Type Inference ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D16-1015/) Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Semih Yavuz et al.*2016 · 78 citations* 10. **[Entity Disambiguation with Linkless Knowledge Bases ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2872427.2883068) International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) · no summary yet**Yang Li et al.*2016 · 31 citations* 11. [**MMSci: A Dataset for Graduate-Level Multi-Discipline Multimodal Scientific Understanding arXiv:2407.04903**Zekun Li, Xianjun Yang, Kyuri Choi, et al.*2024 · 20 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2024-mmsci-dataset-graduate-level-multi/) ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Wanrong Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wanrong-zhu/) - [Wenhu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenhu-chen/) - [William Yang Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-yang-wang/) - [Xianjun Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xianjun-yang/) - [Yu Su](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-su/) - [Zekun Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zekun-li/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/) ×4: [EMNLP 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2020/) - Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics ×2 - ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) - International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) - Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 393 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [60 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xifeng-yan/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026