--- title: "Yan Li — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Yan Li, University of Southern Queensland: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yan-li/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yan-li/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yan Li # Yan Li Yan Li has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/); often with [Eduard Hovy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eduard-hovy/), [Haifeng Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haifeng-chen/), [Shuo Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuo-yang/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100380422) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2182-9048) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100380422) · [36 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100380422) · [527 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100380422&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yan-li/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 63 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yan-li/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6230](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/63/#star-6230) 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=Yan+Li) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yan+Li) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yan+Li) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yan+Li) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Southern Queensland** Toowoomba · Australia 2022–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-queensland/) · [🎓**Chongqing University** Chongqing · China 2023–2025 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/chongqing-university/) · [🏢**State Grid Corporation of China** Beijing · China 2022–2025 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/state-grid-corporation-of-china/) · [🎓**University of Michigan** Ann Arbor · United States 2014–2022 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-michigan/) · [🎓**University of Connecticut** Storrs · United States 2020–2021 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-connecticut/) · [🎓**Shenzhen Polytechnic University** Shenzhen · China 2014–2025 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/00d2w9g53) · [🔬**State Key Laboratory of Coal Mine Disaster Dynamics and Control** Chongqing 2023–2025 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/00725gb29) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 21 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 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Summarization · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yan-li/year/2026/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yan-li/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Exploring the Limits of ChatGPT for Query or Aspect-based Text Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2023-exploring-limits-chatgpt-query-aspect/)** *(2023 · 141 citations)* Earlier work on large language models for summarization mostly examined generic news summaries. This paper asks how ChatGPT performs in the harder, user-driven setting where a summary must answer a specific query or cover a given aspect. The authors tested it on four public benchmarks from different domains: QMSum… 2. **[EVOTOOL: Self-Evolving Tool-Use Policy Optimization in LLM Agents via Blame-Aware Mutation and Diversity-Aware Selection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2026-evotool-self-evolving-tool-use/)** *(2026 · 6 citations)* LLM agents that call external tools often fail in long, multi-step tasks. Feedback usually arrives only at the end, so it is hard to tell which step caused a failure. Prior optimizers either rewrite the whole agent prompt, which can break unrelated behaviors, or tune a single component and miss errors that spread… ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Eduard Hovy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eduard-hovy/) - [Haifeng Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haifeng-chen/) - [Shuo Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuo-yang/) - [Wei Cheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-cheng/) - [Xianjun Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xianjun-yang/) - [Xinlu Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinlu-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/): [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 63 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [11 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yan-li/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026