--- title: "Xing Shi · Tongji University — author profile and papers" description: "Xing Shi, Tongji University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2016–2017), h-index 34 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xing-shi/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xing-shi/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Xing Shi # Xing Shi Xing Shi has 2 papers in our library, in 2016–2017, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Syntax & grammar formalisms](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/); often with [Kevin Knight](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-knight/), [Inkit Padhi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/inkit-padhi/), [Marjan Ghazvininejad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marjan-ghazvininejad/). 2 papers in our library · 2016–2017 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5031163887) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3094-5545) · [**h-index 34**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5031163887) · [147 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5031163887) · [4,271 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5031163887&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xing-shi/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 264 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xing-shi/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #2785](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/28/#star-2785) 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=Xing+Shi) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Xing+Shi) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Xing+Shi) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Xing+Shi) ## Affiliations [🎓**Tongji University** Shanghai · China 2012–2026 · 47 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tongji-university/) · [🎓**Southeast University** Nanjing · China 2007–2021 · 53 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/southeast-university-cn/) · [🎓**Hunan University** Changsha · China 2016–2025 · 16 papers](https://ror.org/05htk5m33) · [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 2015–2020 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🏢**Alibaba Group** Hangzhou · China 2017–2024 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-group/) · [🎓**Tsinghua University** Beijing · China 2015–2021 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tsinghua-university/) · [🎓**Beihang University** Beijing · China 2019–2020 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beihang-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 9 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 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 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Syntax & grammar formalisms · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2017** 1 paper Xing Shi's papers of 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghazvininejad-2017-hafez-interactive-poetry-generation-system/) · [**2016** 1 paper Xing Shi's papers of 2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shi-2016-does-string-based-neural-mt/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Does String-Based Neural MT Learn Source Syntax?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shi-2016-does-string-based-neural-mt/)** *(2016 · 496 citations)* The paper asks whether a plain sequence-to-sequence translation model, trained only on sentence pairs with no trees, picks up English source syntax inside its encoder. 2. **[Hafez: an Interactive Poetry Generation System](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghazvininejad-2017-hafez-interactive-poetry-generation-system/)** *(2017 · 196 citations)* Hafez is a demo system that writes English sonnet-style poems on any topic a user supplies. It targets three weaknesses of earlier poetry generators: poem quality is hard to evaluate, users cannot steer a draft beyond changing the random seed, and generation is slow. The pipeline builds on the authors' earlier work.… ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Kevin Knight](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-knight/) ×2 - [Inkit Padhi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/inkit-padhi/) - [Marjan Ghazvininejad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marjan-ghazvininejad/) ## 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 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2017/) - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2016/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 264 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [40 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xing-shi/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026