--- title: "Xingwei Tan — author profile and papers · Question answering" description: "Xingwei Tan, Chongqing Medical University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 5 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xingwei-tan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xingwei-tan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Xingwei Tan # Xingwei Tan Xingwei Tan has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Nikolaos Aletras](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikolaos-aletras/), [Nafise Sadat Moosavi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nafise-sadat-moosavi/), [Zhixue Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhixue-zhao/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5085079234) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5085079234) · [43 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5085079234) · [158 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5085079234&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xingwei-tan/#papers) · 🔗 Cited 4 times in our library · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10455](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/105/#star-10455) 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=Xingwei+Tan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Xingwei+Tan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Xingwei+Tan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Xingwei+Tan) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Sheffield** Sheffield · United Kingdom 2025–2026 · 18 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-sheffield/) · [🎓**Chongqing Medical University** Chongqing · China 2024–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://ror.org/017z00e58) · [🎓**University of Warwick** Coventry · United Kingdom 2021–2025 · 14 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-warwick/) · [🎓**King's College London** London · United Kingdom 2024–2025 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/king-s-college-london/) · [🎓**South China University of Technology** Guangzhou · China 2017–2021 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/south-china-university-of-technology/) 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 · 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 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xingwei-tan/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xingwei-tan/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Analysing Chain of Thought Dynamics: Active Guidance or Unfaithful Post-hoc Rationalisation?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lim-2025-analysing-chain-thought-dynamics-active/)** *(2025 · 5 citations)* Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting often gives little benefit on soft-reasoning tasks, and the written reasoning may not reflect what actually drives a model's answer. 2. **[No Shortcuts to Culture: Indonesian Multi-hop Question Answering for Complex Cultural Understanding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/permadi-2026-no-shortcuts-culture-indonesian-multi/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Most cultural QA benchmarks for LLMs use single-hop questions, so a model can often answer from one surface cue without reasoning about cultural context. ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Nikolaos Aletras](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikolaos-aletras/) ×2 - [Nafise Sadat Moosavi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nafise-sadat-moosavi/) - [Zhixue Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhixue-zhao/) ## 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/): [EMNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2025/) - [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 4 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read). Updated 31 October 2026