🧑‍🔬 Julian Hough

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓Swansea UniversitySwansea · United Kingdom2023–2026 · 15 papersEmployment since 2023 · Associate Professor, School of Mathematics and Computer Sciencecurrent🎓Bielefeld UniversityBielefeld · Germany2014–2020 · 30 papers🎓Queen Mary University of LondonLondon · United Kingdom2011–2023 · 21 papersEmployment 2018–2023 · Lecturer, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science🎓University of LondonLondon · United Kingdom2014–2021 · 2 papers

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.

📅 Works by year

2020s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. Rare-Class Dialogue Act Tagging for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis (2021 · 13 citations)
   Dialogue act (DA) taggers are usually tuned for average accuracy, so they handle frequent tags well and largely miss rare ones.
2. Can LLMs assist with Ambiguity? A Quantitative Evaluation of various Large Language Models on Word Sense Disambiguation (2024 · 11 citations)
   Large language models are tested here on Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD), especially for highly polysemous English words with many noun and verb senses, where classic supervised systems struggle because labelled data is scarce.
3. SwanNLP at SemEval-2026 Task 5: An LLM-based Framework for Plausibility Scoring in Narrative Word Sense Disambiguation (2026 · 1 citation)
   This paper describes the SwanNLP system for SemEval-2026 Task 5. The task asks systems to predict how plausible humans find a given sense of a homonym inside a short story, on a 1–5 scale. The data come from the AmbiStory dataset. Each instance has a multi-sentence precontext, an ambiguous sentence and sometimes an…

All works

5 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. Alzheimer’s Dementia Recognition Using Acoustic, Lexical, Disfluency and Speech Pause Features Robust to Noisy Inputs ↗Interspeech (USB) · no summary yetMorteza Rohanian, Julian Hough, Matthew Purver2021 · 65 citations
2. Detecting Depression with Word-Level Multimodal Fusion ↗Interspeech (USB) · no summary yetMorteza Rohanian, Julian Hough, Matthew Purver2019 · 55 citations
3. Rare-Class Dialogue Act Tagging for Alzheimer's Disease DiagnosisAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)Shamila Nasreen, Julian Hough, Matthew Purver2021 · 13 citations
4. Can LLMs assist with Ambiguity? A Quantitative Evaluation of various Large Language Models on Word Sense DisambiguationarXiv:2411.18337T.G.D.K. Sumanathilaka, Nicholas Micallef, Julian Hough2024 · 11 citations
5. SwanNLP at SemEval-2026 Task 5: An LLM-based Framework for Plausibility Scoring in Narrative Word Sense DisambiguationInternational Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)Deshan Sumanathilaka, Nicholas Micallef, Julian Hough, et al.2026 · 1 citation

🤝 Co-authors here

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

• Nicholas Micallef ×2
• Matthew Purver

Venues

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

• Interspeech (USB) ×2
• International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval): SemEval 2026
• Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL): SIGDIAL 2021

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 31 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 4 citing papers with a page here →.

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