--- title: "Najim Dehak — author profile and papers · Speech act theory" description: "Najim Dehak, Johns Hopkins University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2015–2021), h-index 44 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/najim-dehak/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/najim-dehak/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Najim Dehak # Najim Dehak Najim Dehak has 2 papers in our library, in 2015–2021, most of them on [Speech act theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Ahmed M. Abdelatty Ali](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-m-abdelatty-ali/), [James Glass](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-glass/), [Patrick Cardinal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/patrick-cardinal/). 2 papers in our library · 2015–2021 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5050632169) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4489-5753) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130822081) · [**h-index 44**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5050632169) · [279 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5050632169) · [11,316 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5050632169&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/najim-dehak/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 65 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/najim-dehak/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7184](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/72/#star-7184) 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=Najim+Dehak) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Najim+Dehak) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Najim+Dehak) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Najim+Dehak) ## Affiliations [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 2016–2026 · 158 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🏥**Johns Hopkins Medicine** Baltimore · United States 2020–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://ror.org/037zgn354) · [🎓**University of Baltimore** Baltimore · United States 2021–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://ror.org/024gw2733) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2010–2019 · 18 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🔬**MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory** Cambridge · United States 2011–2015 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mit-computer-science-and-artificial-intelligence-laboratory/) · [🤝**Computer Research Institute of Montréal** Montreal · Canada 2006–2009 · 5 papers](https://ror.org/0279d5115) · [🎓**École de Technologie Supérieure** Montreal · Canada 2006–2009 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ecole-de-technologie-superieure/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Signal Processing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/signal-processing/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Speech act theory · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/najim-dehak/year/2021/) ### 2010s [**2015** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/najim-dehak/year/2015/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Automatic Dialect Detection in Arabic Broadcast Speech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ali-2015-automatic-dialect-detection-arabic-broadcast/)** *(2015 · 59 citations)* The paper tackles automatic identification of Arabic dialects from broadcast speech. It treats this as a harder variant of language identification, since the varieties belong to one language yet differ in lexicon and sound. The authors compare three utterance representations: 2. **[What Helps Transformers Recognize Conversational Structure? Importance of Context, Punctuation, and Labels in Dialog Act Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zelasko-2021-what-helps-transformers-recognize-conversational/)** *(2021 · 19 citations)* This TACL 2021 study tackles joint dialog act segmentation and classification of English conversation transcripts. ## All works 6 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. **[State-of-the-Art Speaker Recognition for Telephone and Video Speech: The JHU-MIT Submission for NIST SRE18 ↗](https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2019-2713) Interspeech (USB) · no summary yet**Jesús Villalba et al.*2019 · 93 citations* 2. **[Using State of the Art Speaker Recognition and Natural Language Processing Technologies to Detect Alzheimer’s Disease and Assess its Severity ↗](https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2020-2587) Interspeech (USB) · no summary yet**Raghavendra Reddy Pappagari et al.*2020 · 68 citations* 3. **[Automatic Detection and Assessment of Alzheimer Disease Using Speech and Language Technologies in Low-Resource Scenarios ↗](https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2021-1850) Interspeech (USB) · no summary yet**Raghavendra Reddy Pappagari et al.*2021 · 63 citations* 4. **[Automatic Dialect Detection in Arabic Broadcast Speech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ali-2015-automatic-dialect-detection-arabic-broadcast/) [Interspeech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/interspeech-usb/)**Ahmed Ali, Najim Dehak, Patrick Cardinal, et al.*2015 · 59 citations* 5. **[What Helps Transformers Recognize Conversational Structure? Importance of Context, Punctuation, and Labels in Dialog Act Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zelasko-2021-what-helps-transformers-recognize-conversational/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Piotr Żelasko, Raghavendra Pappagari, Najim Dehak*2021 · 19 citations* 6. **[Latent Speech-Text Transformer ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06195) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Yen-Ju Lu et al.*2025 · 1 citation* ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ahmed M. Abdelatty Ali](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-m-abdelatty-ali/) - [James Glass](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-glass/) - [Patrick Cardinal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/patrick-cardinal/) - [Peter Bell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-bell/) - [Sameer Khurana](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sameer-khurana/) - [Steve Renals](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steve-renals/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Interspeech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/interspeech-usb/) ×4: [Interspeech 2015](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/interspeech-usb/2015/) - [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2021/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 65 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [40 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/najim-dehak/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026