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# Zhou Zhao

Zhou Zhao has 4 papers in our library, in 2017–2024, most of them on [Speech act theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/); often with [Chang Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chang-zhou/), [Dacheng Tao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dacheng-tao/), [Deng Cai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deng-cai/).

4 papers in our library · 2017–2024

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5079260216) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6121-0384) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130822093) · [**h-index 57**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5079260216) · [485 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5079260216) · [12,997 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5079260216&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhou-zhao/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 340 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhou-zhao/cited-by/) · [14 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #2925](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/30/#star-2925)

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=Zhou+Zhao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zhou+Zhao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zhou+Zhao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zhou+Zhao)

## Affiliations

[🎓**Zhejiang University** Hangzhou · China 2015–2026 · 458 papersEmployment*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/zhejiang-university/) · [🎓**Hong Kong University of Science and Technology** Hong Kong · Hong Kong 2012–2015 · 18 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🔬**Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory** Shanghai · China 2022–2025 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/shanghai-artificial-intelligence-laboratory/) · [🏢**Alibaba Group** Hangzhou · China 2018–2025 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-group/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2020–2024 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🎓**Xidian University** Xi'an · China 2020–2023 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/xidian-university/) · [🏢**ByteDance** Beijing · China 2023–2026 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/bytedance/) · [🔬**Shanghai Advanced Research Institute** Pudong · China 2022–2023 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/02br7py06) · [🏛️**Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2017–2021 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/chinese-academy-of-sciences/) · [🔬**Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology** Shenzhen · China 2017–2021 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/shenzhen-institutes-of-advanced-technology/)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 19 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/)

🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Speech & spoken language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Dialogue systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Speech act theory · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2024** 1 paper AIR-Bench: Benchmarking Large Audio-Language Models via Generative Comprehension](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2024-air-bench-benchmarking-large-audio/)

### 2010s

[**2019** 1 paper ActivityNet-QA: A Dataset for Understanding Complex Web Videos via Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yu-2019-activitynet-qa-dataset-understanding-complex/) · [**2018** 1 paper Improved Dynamic Memory Network for Dialogue Act Classification with Adversarial Training](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wan-2018-improved-dynamic-memory-network-dialogue/) · [**2017** 1 paper Dialogue Act Recognition via CRF-Attentive Structured Network](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2017-dialogue-act-recognition-crf-attentive/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[ActivityNet-QA: A Dataset for Understanding Complex Web Videos via Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yu-2019-activitynet-qa-dataset-understanding-complex/)** *(2019 · 390 citations)* Video question answering (VideoQA) has had weaker benchmarks than image QA. Existing datasets tend to be small, rely on QA pairs generated automatically from captions, use very short clips, or cover only a few activity types. To address this, the authors built ActivityNet-QA, a fully human-annotated, open-ended…
2. **[Dialogue Act Recognition via CRF-Attentive Structured Network](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2017-dialogue-act-recognition-crf-attentive/)** *(2017 · 133 citations)* The paper tackles Dialogue Act Recognition (DAR), which means tagging each utterance in a conversation with a label such as Question, Answer, Greeting or Backchannel that reflects the speaker's intent.
3. **[AIR-Bench: Benchmarking Large Audio-Language Models via Generative Comprehension](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2024-air-bench-benchmarking-large-audio/)** *(2024 · 108 citations)* Large audio-language models (LALMs) such as SALMONN, BLSP and Qwen-Audio can respond to spoken and other audio input in free text.
4. **[Improved Dynamic Memory Network for Dialogue Act Classification with Adversarial Training](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wan-2018-improved-dynamic-memory-network-dialogue/)** *(2018 · 14 citations)* The paper addresses dialogue act (DA) classification: assigning each utterance in a conversation a label such as Question, Answer, Greeting or Backchannel that captures what the speaker intends.

## All works

18 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. **[ActivityNet-QA: A Dataset for Understanding Complex Web Videos via Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yu-2019-activitynet-qa-dataset-understanding-complex/) [Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/proceedings-of-the-aaai-conference-on-artificial-intelligence/)**Zhou Yu, Dejing Xu, Jun Yu, et al.*2019 · 390 citations*
2. [**Dialogue Act Recognition via CRF-Attentive Structured Network arXiv:1711.05568**Zheqian Chen, Rongqin Yang, Zhou Zhao, et al.*2017 · 133 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2017-dialogue-act-recognition-crf-attentive/)
3. **[AIR-Bench: Benchmarking Large Audio-Language Models via Generative Comprehension](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2024-air-bench-benchmarking-large-audio/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Qian Yang, Jin Xu, Wenrui Liu, et al.*2024 · 108 citations*
4. **[GenerSpeech: Towards Style Transfer for Generalizable Out-Of-Domain Text-to-Speech](https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07211) arXiv:2205.07211 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Rongjie Huang et al.*2022 · 47 citations*
5. **[WavChat: A Survey of Spoken Dialogue Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.13577) arXiv:2411.13577 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Shengpeng Ji et al.*2024 · 45 citations*
6. **[StyleSinger: Style Transfer for Out-of-Domain Singing Voice Synthesis](https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v38i17.29932) arXiv:2312.10741 · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 38(17), 19597-19605. (2024) · original ↗ · no summary yet**Yu Zhang et al.*2023 · 26 citations*
7. **[WavRAG: Audio-Integrated Retrieval Augmented Generation for Spoken Dialogue Models](https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.613/) Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · original ↗ · no summary yet**Yifu Chen et al.*2025 · 22 citations*
8. **[OS Agents: A Survey on MLLM-based Agents for Computer, Phone and Browser Use](https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.369/) Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · original ↗ · no summary yet**Xueyu Hu et al.*2025 · 17 citations*
9. **[Improved Dynamic Memory Network for Dialogue Act Classification with Adversarial Training](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wan-2018-improved-dynamic-memory-network-dialogue/) [IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-international-conference-on-big-data-bigdata/)**Yao Wan, Wenqiang Yan, Jianwei Gao, et al.*2018 · 14 citations*
10. **[TCSinger: Zero-Shot Singing Voice Synthesis with Style Transfer and Multi-Level Style Control](https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.117/) Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · original ↗ · no summary yet**Yu Zhang et al.*2024 · 13 citations*
11. **[ControlSpeech: Towards Simultaneous and Independent Zero-shot Speaker Cloning and Zero-shot Language Style Control](https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.346/) Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · original ↗ · no summary yet**Shengpeng Ji et al.*2025 · 10 citations*
12. **[Speech-to-Speech Translation with Discrete-Unit-Based Style Transfer](https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-srw.5/) Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop) · original ↗ · no summary yet**Yongqi Wang et al.*2024 · 5 citations*
13. **[Dual-Axis Generative Reward Model Toward Semantic and Turn-taking Robustness in Interactive Spoken Dialogue Models](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.6/) Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · original ↗ · no summary yet**Yifu Chen et al.*2026 · 4 citations*
14. **[Unified Thinker: A General Reasoning Core for Image Generation](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.484/) Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · original ↗ · no summary yet**Sashuai Zhou et al.*2026 · 3 citations*
15. **[MSSRNet: Manipulating Sequential Style Representation for Unsupervised Text Style Transfer](https://doi.org/10.1145/3580305.3599438) arXiv:2306.07994 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Yazheng Yang, Zhou Zhao, Qi Liu*2023 · 2 citations*
16. **[SDiaReward: Modeling and Benchmarking Spoken Dialogue Rewards with Modality and Colloquialness](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.185/) Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · original ↗ · no summary yet**Jingyu Lu et al.*2026*
17. **[Iterative Self-Correction for Text-Driven Person Re-Identification with Large Vision-Language Models](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.312/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Guijin Luo et al.*2026*
18. **[Comprehensive Benchmarking of Long-Form Speech Generation in Diverse Scenarios](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.112/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Changhao Pan et al.*2026*

## Co-authors here

12 of 14 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Chang Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chang-zhou/)
- [Dacheng Tao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dacheng-tao/)
- [Deng Cai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deng-cai/)
- [Jian Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-wu/)
- [Jin Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jin-xu/)
- [Jingren Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jingren-zhou/)
- [Philip S. Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/philip-s-yu/)
- [Qian Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qian-yang/)
- [Xiaohuan Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaohuan-zhou/)
- [Yichong Leng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yichong-leng/)
- [Yuanjun Lv](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuanjun-lv/)
- [Yueting Zhuang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yueting-zhuang/)

## 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/) ×8: [ACL 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2024/)
- Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 ×2
- [IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-international-conference-on-big-data-bigdata/): [BigData 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-international-conference-on-big-data-bigdata/2018/)
- [Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/proceedings-of-the-aaai-conference-on-artificial-intelligence/): [Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/proceedings-of-the-aaai-conference-on-artificial-intelligence/2019/)
- Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 340 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [37 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhou-zhao/cited-by/).

Updated 24 October 2026