--- title: "Deb Roy · MIT Media Lab — author profile and papers" description: "Deb Roy, MIT Media Lab: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2016–2023), h-index 40 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deb-roy/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deb-roy/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Deb Roy # Deb Roy Deb Roy has 2 papers in our library, in 2016–2023, most of them on [Speech act theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Jad Kabbara](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jad-kabbara/), [Soroush Vosoughi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/soroush-vosoughi/). 2 papers in our library · 2016–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5004281470) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2780-4768) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130850736) · [**h-index 40**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5004281470) · [236 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5004281470) · [18,841 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5004281470&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deb-roy/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 149 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deb-roy/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/61/#star-6023) 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=Deb+Roy) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Deb+Roy) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Deb+Roy) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Deb+Roy) ## Affiliations [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 1996–2026 · 207 papersEmployment · Professor, Media Arts and Sciences*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🔬**MIT Media Lab** Cambridge · United States 1996–2026 · 98 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mit-media-lab/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 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. 📚 Shelves 8 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Clinical Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/clinical-psychology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Speech act theory · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deb-roy/year/2023/) ### 2010s [**2016** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deb-roy/year/2016/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[PersonaLLM: Investigating the Ability of Large Language Models to Express Personality Traits](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jiang-2023-personallm-investigating-ability-large-language/)** *(2023 · 211 citations)* Chatbots with assigned personalities are increasingly common, yet it is rarely checked whether such "LLM personas" actually behave in line with the traits they are given. 2. **[Tweet Acts: A Speech Act Classifier for Twitter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vosoughi-2016-tweet-acts-speech-act-classifier/)** *(2016 · 32 citations)* Most computational work on tweets looks at literal content. This paper asks a pragmatic question instead: what is the author doing with the tweet? Earlier dialogue-act methods handle Twitter's noisy, informal language poorly. The authors build a six-class taxonomy based on Searle: Assertion, Recommendation… ## All works 5 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. **[PersonaLLM: Investigating the Ability of Large Language Models to Express Personality Traits](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jiang-2023-personallm-investigating-ability-large-language/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Hang Jiang, Xiajie Zhang, Xubo Cao, et al.*2023 · 211 citations* 2. **[DeepStance at SemEval-2016 Task 6: Detecting Stance in Tweets Using Character and Word-Level CNNs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S16-1067/) Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2016) · no summary yet**Prashanth Vijayaraghavan et al.*2016 · 75 citations* 3. **[Leveraging Large Language Models for Learning Complex Legal Concepts through Storytelling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.388/) Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Hang Jiang et al.*2024 · 35 citations* 4. [**Tweet Acts: A Speech Act Classifier for Twitter arXiv:1605.05156**Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy*2016 · 32 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vosoughi-2016-tweet-acts-speech-act-classifier/) 5. **[FaciliTrain: Practicing Facilitation Skills through AI-Simulated Group Dialogue ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3785651.3831566) arXiv:2607.10850 · no summary yet**Hang Jiang et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Jad Kabbara](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jad-kabbara/) - [Soroush Vosoughi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/soroush-vosoughi/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2023/) - Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2016) - Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 149 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [37 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deb-roy/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026