--- title: "Yufang Hou — papers and cards" description: "Yufang Hou: 5 paper cards in the Research library (2013–2022), with what each paper is about, the ideas Mova took from it, and the co-authors." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yufang-hou/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yufang-hou/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yufang Hou # Yufang Hou 5 paper cards in the Research library · 2013–2022 Yufang Hou wrote 5 of the papers Mova reads, in 2013–2022, most of them on [Coreference resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/), [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/); often with [Katja Markert](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/katja-markert/), [Michael Strube](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-strube/), [Bingsheng Yao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bingsheng-yao/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5078812348) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2897-6075) · [**h-index 23**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5078812348) · [2364 citations](https://openalex.org/authors/A5078812348) · [115 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5078812348) — openalex-snapshot, 2026-10-14 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=Yufang+Hou) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yufang+Hou) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yufang+Hou) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yufang+Hou) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/orcid-search/search?searchQuery=Yufang+Hou) Topics: [Coreference resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) 3 · [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) 1 ## Ideas Mova took (1) From the ideas ledger: an idea tried, kept or queued, or measured with no gain, and what it gave. - **measured, no gain** — Block same-head links when the mention is marked as comparative or contrastive, a cheap attack on the second main error of coref («same text or head, different entities», exact 69.6%, strict_a 54.7%): a mention with other, another, further, different… *([Fine-grained Information Status Classification Using…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hou-2020-fine-grained-information-status-classification/) · block same-head links under other/another/second/different…: no change on gold trees, one link on SLM trees (+0.01) — strict_a's modifier subset and the…)* ## Papers 1. **[Fantastic Questions and Where to Find Them: FairytaleQA – An Authentic Dataset for Narrative Comprehension](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2022-fantastic-questions-where-find-them/)** *(2022)* FairytaleQA is a question-answering dataset for narrative comprehension aimed at the reading level of kindergarten to eighth-grade children. 2. **[Bridging Anaphora Resolution as Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hou-2020-bridging-anaphora-resolution-as-question/)** *(2020)* The paper treats bridging anaphora resolution as question answering. Each anaphor is rephrased as a question such as "residents of what?" from its head and premodifiers, and a BERT-based span model (BARQA) finds the antecedent in the preceding context. The model needs no gold mentions. The authors also generate about… 3. **[Fine-grained Information Status Classification Using Discourse Context-Aware BERT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hou-2020-fine-grained-information-status-classification/)** *(2020)* Information status (IS) says how accessible a mention's referent is: old (mentioned before), new, or mediated — not mentioned but accessible through world knowledge (mostly proper names), syntax (their father, a noun linked to an old mention), coordination (aggregate), a rise/fall function value, comparison (further… 4. **[Unrestricted Bridging Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hou-2018-unrestricted-bridging-resolution/)** *(2018)* The article presents ISNotes (50 Wall Street Journal texts, OntoNotes part) annotated for fine-grained information status — new, old, mediated subtypes (world knowledge, syntactic, comparative, function, aggregate) and bridging — with 663 bridging anaphors, and a two-stage system for bridging with no restriction on… 5. **[Global Inference for Bridging Anaphora Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hou-2013-global-inference-bridging-anaphora-resolution/)** *(2013)* The paper addresses antecedent selection for bridging anaphora with no limits on anaphor or relation types. ## Co-authors (19) - [Katja Markert](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/katja-markert/) ×2 - [Michael Strube](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-strube/) ×2 - [Bingsheng Yao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bingsheng-yao/) - Branda Sun - [Dakuo Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dakuo-wang/) - Daniel Ritchie - [Diyi Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diyi-yang/) - Mark Warschauer - [Mo Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mo-yu/) - [Nanyun Peng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nanyun-peng/) - Nora Bradford - [Toby Jia-Jun Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/toby-jia-jun-li/) - [Tongshuang Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tongshuang-wu/) - Tran Bao Hoang - Xiaojuan Ma - [Ying Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ying-xu/) - Yisi Sang - [Zheng Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zheng-zhang/) - [Zhou Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhou-yu/) ## More papers in the library (6) Pages of the Research library: our summary, the ideas, references and who cites each. - [A Deterministic Algorithm for Bridging Anaphora Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hou-2018-deterministic-algorithm-bridging-anaphora-resolution/) — Yufang Hou · 2018 - [Enhanced Word Representations for Bridging Anaphora Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hou-2018-enhanced-word-representations-bridging-anaphora/) — Yufang Hou · 2018 - [Computational Argumentation Quality Assessment in Natural Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wachsmuth-2017-computational-argumentation-quality-assessment-natural/) — Henning Wachsmuth, Nona Naderi, Yufang Hou, et al. · 2017 - [A Rule-Based System for Unrestricted Bridging Resolution: Recognizing Bridging Anaphora and Finding Links to Antecedents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hou-2014-rule-based-system-unrestricted-bridging/) — Yufang Hou, Katja Markert, Michael Strube · 2014 - [Cascading Collective Classification for Bridging Anaphora Recognition using a Rich Linguistic Feature Set](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hou-2013-cascading-collective-classification-bridging-anaphora/) — Yufang Hou, Katja Markert, Michael Strube · 2013 - [Collective Classification for Fine-grained Information Status](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/markert-2012-collective-classification-fine-grained-information/) — Katja Markert, Yufang Hou, Michael Strube · 2012