--- title: "Zihao Tao — author profile and papers" description: "Zihao Tao, Columbia University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 0 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zihao-tao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zihao-tao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zihao Tao # Zihao Tao Zihao Tao has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [Speech act theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/); often with [Ignazio Steven LaManna](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ignazio-steven-lamanna/), [John Prado](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-prado/), [Julia Hirschberg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julia-hirschberg/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 current affiliation [Columbia University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) · New York United States [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5139808444) · [**h-index 0**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5139808444) · [2 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5139808444) · [0 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5139808444&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zihao-tao/#papers) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #5310](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/54/#star-5310) 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=Zihao+Tao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zihao+Tao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zihao+Tao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zihao+Tao) ## Affiliations [🎓**Columbia University** New York · United States 2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Topics [Dialogue systems 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Speech act theory 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zihao-tao/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Completing and Validating the Re-Aligned Switchboard Dialog Act Corpus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2026-completing-validating-re-aligned-switchboard/)** *(2026)* The Switchboard Dialog Act corpus (1,155 phone conversations, ~205K utterances, 42 SWBD-DAMSL tags) had speech and text so badly aligned that prosody was useless for tagging. 2. **[Disentangling Annotator Skill from Verifier Strictness in Cross-Verified Dialogue Annotation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tao-2026-disentangling-annotator-skill-verifier-strictness/)** *(2026)* When a second person reviews and corrects an annotated file, the number of corrections reflects two things at once: how accurate the annotator was and how demanding the reviewer is. ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ignazio Steven LaManna](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ignazio-steven-lamanna/) ×2 - [John Prado](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-prado/) ×2 - [Julia Hirschberg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julia-hirschberg/) ×2 - [Mim Datta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mim-datta/) ×2 - [Ryan Puterbaugh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-puterbaugh/) ×2