--- title: "Xuanli He — author profile and papers · Speech act theory" description: "Xuanli He, University College London: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2025), h-index 13 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuanli-he/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuanli-he/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Xuanli He # Xuanli He Xuanli He has 2 papers in our library, in 2018–2025, 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 [Andiswa Bukula](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andiswa-bukula/), [David Ifeoluwa Adelani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-ifeoluwa-adelani/), [En-Shiun Annie Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/en-shiun-annie-lee/). 2 papers in our library · 2018–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5060320196) · [**h-index 13**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5060320196) · [62 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5060320196) · [808 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5060320196&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuanli-he/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 139 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuanli-he/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5250](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/53/#star-5250) 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=Xuanli+He) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Xuanli+He) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Xuanli+He) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Xuanli+He) ## Affiliations [🎓**University College London** London · United Kingdom 2022–2026 · 46 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-college-london/) · [🎓**Monash University** Melbourne · Australia 2018–2023 · 17 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/monash-university/) · [🎓**The University of Melbourne** Melbourne · Australia 2017–2022 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-melbourne/) · [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2021–2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 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 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Speech & spoken language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Speech act theory · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper IrokoBench: A New Benchmark for African Languages in the Age of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adelani-2025-irokobench-new-benchmark-african-languages/) ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper Exploring Textual and Speech information in Dialogue Act Classification with Speaker Domain Adaptation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/he-2018-exploring-textual-speech-information-dialogue/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[IrokoBench: A New Benchmark for African Languages in the Age of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adelani-2025-irokobench-new-benchmark-african-languages/)** *(2025 · 69 citations)* Large language models are usually tested in English and a few other well-resourced languages. When African languages are tested at all, it is mostly on simple classification, so we know little about how well models reason or recall knowledge in them. The authors built IrokoBench to fill this gap. Professional… 2. **[Exploring Textual and Speech information in Dialogue Act Classification with Speaker Domain Adaptation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/he-2018-exploring-textual-speech-information-dialogue/)** *(2018 · 3 citations)* Dialogue Act (DA) classification usually assumes human (oracle) transcripts. A real spoken dialogue system only has noisy ASR output, and it also meets speakers it never heard in training. The authors build an online multimodal DA tagger. A CNN over MFCC frames feeds a speech LSTM, a word-embedding LSTM encodes the… ## All works 6 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. **[IrokoBench: A New Benchmark for African Languages in the Age of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adelani-2025-irokobench-new-benchmark-african-languages/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jessica Ojo, Israel Abebe Azime, et al.*2025 · 69 citations* 2. **[Generate, Annotate, and Learn: NLP with Synthetic Text](https://aclanthology.org/2022.tacl-1.48/) Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics · original ↗ · no summary yet**Xuanli He et al.*2022 · 68 citations* 3. **[AfriMTE and AfriCOMET: Enhancing COMET to Embrace Under-resourced African Languages](https://aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-long.334/) Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) · original ↗ · no summary yet**Jiayi Wang et al.*2024 · 39 citations* 4. **[Rethinking Round-Trip Translation for Machine Translation Evaluation](https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.22/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Terry Yue Zhuo et al.*2023 · 20 citations* 5. **[Can Knowledge Graphs Simplify Text?](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06975) arXiv:2308.06975 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Anthony Colas et al.*2023 · 8 citations* 6. **[Exploring Textual and Speech information in Dialogue Act Classification with Speaker Domain Adaptation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/he-2018-exploring-textual-speech-information-dialogue/) [Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alta/)**Xuanli He, Quan Tran, William Havard, et al.*2018 · 3 citations* ## Co-authors here 12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Andiswa Bukula](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andiswa-bukula/) - [David Ifeoluwa Adelani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-ifeoluwa-adelani/) - [En-Shiun Annie Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/en-shiun-annie-lee/) - [Gholamreza Haffari](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gholamreza-haffari/) - [Happy Buzaaba](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/happy-buzaaba/) - [Ingrid Zukerman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ingrid-zukerman/) - [Israel Abebe Azime](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/israel-abebe-azime/) - [Jesujoba Alabi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jesujoba-alabi/) - [Laurent Besacier](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/laurent-besacier/) - [Millicent Ochieng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/millicent-ochieng/) - [Quan Hung Tran](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/quan-hung-tran/) - [Sara Hooker](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sara-hooker/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alta/): [ALTA 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/alta/2018/) - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [NAACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2025/) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023 - Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) - Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 139 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [15 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuanli-he/cited-by/). 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