🧑‍🔬 Xifeng Yan

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓University of California, Santa BarbaraSanta Barbara · United States2008–2026 · 163 papersEmployment since 2008 · Professor, Computer Sciencecurrent🎓University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUrbana · United States2003–2007 · 36 papersEducation until 2006🔬IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research CenterYorktown Heights · United States2007–2009 · 15 papers🏢IBMArmonk · United States2007–2009 · 13 papers🎓The Ohio State UniversityColumbus · United States2018–2019 · 3 papers🎓University of Illinois SystemUrbana · United States2005–2007 · 3 papers🎓University of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles · United States2007 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 6 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

🧭 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. KGPT: Knowledge-Grounded Pre-Training for Data-to-Text Generation (2020 · 174 citations)
   Neural data-to-text systems usually need large annotated datasets for each task, which makes moving to new domains expensive.
2. MMSci: A Dataset for Graduate-Level Multi-Discipline Multimodal Scientific Understanding (2024 · 20 citations)
   Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) are increasingly pitched as research assistants, but existing benchmarks mostly test simple charts or figures from a narrow set of fields.

All works

11 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. KGPT: Knowledge-Grounded Pre-Training for Data-to-Text GenerationConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Wenhu Chen, Yu Su, Xifeng Yan, et al.2020 · 174 citations
2. Semantically Conditioned Dialog Response Generation via Hierarchical Disentangled Self-Attention ↗Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yetWenhu Chen et al.2019 · 173 citations
3. On Generating Characteristic-rich Question Sets for QA Evaluation ↗Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yetYu Su et al.2016 · 151 citations
4. Variational Knowledge Graph Reasoning ↗Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers) · no summary yetWenhu Chen et al.2018 · 137 citations
5. Cross-domain Semantic Parsing via Paraphrasing ↗Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yetYu Su, Xifeng Yan2017 · 121 citations
6. Explanations from Large Language Models Make Small Reasoners Better ↗arXiv:2210.06726 · no summary yetShiyang Li et al.2022 · 120 citations
7. Mining evidences for named entity disambiguation ↗ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) · no summary yetYang Li et al.2013 · 101 citations
8. DialSQL: Dialogue Based Structured Query Generation ↗Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yetIzzeddin Gur et al.2018 · 94 citations
9. Improving Semantic Parsing via Answer Type Inference ↗Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yetSemih Yavuz et al.2016 · 78 citations
10. Entity Disambiguation with Linkless Knowledge Bases ↗International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) · no summary yetYang Li et al.2016 · 31 citations
11. MMSci: A Dataset for Graduate-Level Multi-Discipline Multimodal Scientific UnderstandingarXiv:2407.04903Zekun Li, Xianjun Yang, Kyuri Choi, et al.2024 · 20 citations

🤝 Co-authors here

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

• Wanrong Zhu
• Wenhu Chen
• William Yang Wang
• Xianjun Yang
• Yu Su
• Zekun Li

Venues

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

• Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) ×4: EMNLP 2020
• Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics ×2
• ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)
• International World Wide Web Conference (WWW)
• Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers)

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 393 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 60 citing papers with a page here →.

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