--- title: "Georgios Spithourakis — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Georgios Spithourakis: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2016–2017), h-index 13 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/georgios-spithourakis/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/georgios-spithourakis/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Georgios Spithourakis # Georgios Spithourakis Georgios Spithourakis has 3 papers in our library, in 2016–2017, most of them on [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Bill Dolan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bill-dolan/), [Chris Brockett](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-brockett/), [Jianfeng Gao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianfeng-gao/). 3 papers in our library · 2016–2017 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5015056626) · [**h-index 13**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5015056626) · [23 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5015056626) · [1,778 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5015056626&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/georgios-spithourakis/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 487 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/georgios-spithourakis/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #2902](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/30/#star-2902) 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=Georgios+Spithourakis) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Georgios+Spithourakis) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Georgios+Spithourakis) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Georgios+Spithourakis) ## Affiliations [🎓**University College London** London · United Kingdom 2016–2018 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-college-london/) · [🎓**National Technical University of Athens** Athens · Greece 2011–2016 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/national-technical-university-of-athens/) 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 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Sociology and Political Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/sociology-and-political-science/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Sentiment & emotion · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Chatbots · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/chatbot/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2017** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/georgios-spithourakis/year/2017/) · [**2016** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/georgios-spithourakis/year/2016/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[A Persona-Based Neural Conversation Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2016-persona-based-neural-conversation-model/)** *(2016 · 462 citations)* Neural SEQ2SEQ chatbots trained on large human-to-human corpora tend to output the most probable, averaged reply. 2. **[A simple but tough-to-beat baseline for the Fake News Challenge stance detection task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/riedel-2017-simple-but-tough-beat-baseline/)** *(2017 · 242 citations)* The paper addresses stance detection for Stage 1 of the Fake News Challenge (FNC-1). Given a headline and an article body, a system must decide whether the body agrees with, disagrees with, discusses, or is unrelated to the headline. Such systems are meant to support human fact checkers. The UCL Machine Reading… 3. **[Image-Grounded Conversations: Multimodal Context for Natural Question and Response Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mostafazadeh-2017-image-grounded-conversations-multimodal-context/)** *(2017 · 199 citations)* This paper introduces Image-Grounded Conversations (IGC), a task that sits between open-ended chit-chat and goal-oriented dialog. ## All works 4 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. [**A Persona-Based Neural Conversation Model arXiv:1603.06155**Jiwei Li, Michel Galley, Chris Brockett, et al.*2016 · 462 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2016-persona-based-neural-conversation-model/) 2. [**A simple but tough-to-beat baseline for the Fake News Challenge stance detection task arXiv:1707.03264**Benjamin Riedel, Isabelle Augenstein, Georgios P. Spithourakis, et al.*2017 · 242 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/riedel-2017-simple-but-tough-beat-baseline/) 3. **[Image-Grounded Conversations: Multimodal Context for Natural Question and Response Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mostafazadeh-2017-image-grounded-conversations-multimodal-context/) [International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ijcnlp/)**Nasrin Mostafazadeh, Chris Brockett, Bill Dolan, et al.*2017 · 199 citations* 4. **[Training Neural Response Selection for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P19-1536/) Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Matthew Henderson et al.*2019 · 134 citations* ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Bill Dolan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bill-dolan/) ×2 - [Chris Brockett](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-brockett/) ×2 - [Jianfeng Gao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianfeng-gao/) ×2 - [Michel Galley](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michel-galley/) ×2 - [Isabelle Augenstein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/isabelle-augenstein/) - [Jiwei Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiwei-li/) - [Lucy Vanderwende](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lucy-vanderwende/) - [Nasrin Mostafazadeh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nasrin-mostafazadeh/) - [Sebastian Riedel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-riedel/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ijcnlp/): [IJCNLP 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ijcnlp/2017/) - Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 487 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [71 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/georgios-spithourakis/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026