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Alan Blair

Alan Blair has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2024, most of them on Speech act theory, Dialogue systems; often with Stefano Mezza, Wayne Wobcke.

2 papers in our library · 2022–2024

OpenAlex · ORCID · Wikidata · h-index 16 · 79 works · 978 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 5 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10525

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 Affiliations

🎓UNSW SydneySydney · Australia2002–2025 · 54 papersEmployment since 2002current🎓The University of QueenslandBrisbane · Australia1998–2008 · 6 papers🎓The University of MelbourneMelbourne · Australia1999–2004 · 6 papers🎓Brandeis UniversityWaltham · United States1996–1998 · 4 papers🔬Data61Sydney · Australia2007–2009 · 2 papers🎓Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge · United States1989–1995 · 1 paperEducation 1989–1994🎓The University of SydneySydney · Australia1985–1988Education 1985–1988

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine.

 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 5The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksArtificial Intelligence · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 worksPhilosophy · 1 work

🧭 Topics 2Research subjects and languages the work is about.Dialogue systems · 2 worksSpeech act theory · 2 works

 Works by year

2020s

20241 paper20221 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Exploiting Dialogue Acts and Context to Identify Argumentative Relations in Online Debates (2024 · 4 citations)
    The paper addresses Argumentative Relation Classification, which means deciding whether a debate contribution supports or attacks the earlier contribution it replies to.
  2. A Multi-Dimensional, Cross-Domain and Hierarchy-Aware Neural Architecture for ISO-Standard Dialogue Act Tagging (2022 · 1 citation)
    ISO 24617-2 is a domain-independent, hierarchical and multi-dimensional standard for Dialogue Act tagging. Practitioners rarely adopt it, mainly because no training corpus of adequate size is annotated with it. The authors address this from two directions.

 Co-authors here

2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 5 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 1 citing paper with a page here →.

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