--- title: "Prasenjit Mitra — author profile and papers · Speech act theory" description: "Prasenjit Mitra, Carnegie Mellon University Africa: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2014–2026), h-index 50 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/prasenjit-mitra/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/prasenjit-mitra/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Prasenjit Mitra # Prasenjit Mitra Prasenjit Mitra has 4 papers in our library, in 2014–2026, most of them on [Speech act theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/), [Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Gollam Rabby](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gollam-rabby/), [Soren Auer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/soren-auer/), [Sumit Bhatia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sumit-bhatia/). 4 papers in our library · 2014–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5009542542) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7530-9497) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59748832) · [**h-index 50**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5009542542) · [400 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5009542542) · [10,286 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5009542542&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/prasenjit-mitra/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 48 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/prasenjit-mitra/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7354](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/74/#star-7354) 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=Prasenjit+Mitra) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Prasenjit+Mitra) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Prasenjit+Mitra) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Prasenjit+Mitra) ## Affiliations [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University Africa** Kigali · Rwanda 2025–2026 · 35 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university-africa/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2025–2026 · 27 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**Pennsylvania State University** State College · United States 2003–2025 · 276 papersEmployment 2003–2024 · Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/pennsylvania-state-university/) · [🔬**L3S Research Center** Hanover · Germany 2022–2024 · 19 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/l3s-research-center/) · [🎓**Leibniz University Hannover** Hanover · Germany 2022–2024 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/leibniz-university-hannover/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2000–2004 · 11 papersEducation until 2004 · Ph.D.](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🎓**Hamad bin Khalifa University** Doha · Qatar 2015–2016 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hamad-bin-khalifa-university/) · [🎓**Victoria University of Wellington** Wellington · New Zealand 2026Employment since 2026 · Bob Dykes Chair Professor of Advanced Artificial Intelligence, School of Engineering and Computer Science](https://ror.org/0040r6f76) 🏛️**Qatar Computing Research Institute** Doha · [Qatar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/qatar/) 2014–2025Employment 2014–2016 · Principal ScientistEmployment 2024–2025 · Consultant (External) [🏛️**Qatar Computing Research Institute** Doha · Qatar 2014Employment since 2014](https://ror.org/01w58xz62) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Information Systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Speech act theory · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [Summarization · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/prasenjit-mitra/year/2026/) · [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/prasenjit-mitra/year/2025/) ### 2010s [**2014** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/prasenjit-mitra/year/2014/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Summarizing Online Forum Discussions – Can Dialog Acts of Individual Messages Help?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bhatia-2014-summarizing-online-forum-discussions-can/)** *(2014 · 59 citations)* Long threads on web forums often run across many pages, with several participants contributing competing opinions and fixes. 2. **[Iterative Hypothesis Generation for Scientific Discovery with Monte Carlo Nash Equilibrium Self-Refining Trees](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rabby-2025-iterative-hypothesis-generation-scientific-discovery/)** *(2025 · 6 citations)* Purely LLM-based methods for generating scientific hypotheses often produce ideas that are either unoriginal or poorly grounded. 3. **[SCI-IDEA: Context-Aware Scientific Ideation Using Token and Sentence Embeddings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/keya-2025-sci-idea-context-aware-scientific/)** *(2025 · 4 citations)* SCI-IDEA tackles a hard problem for LLM-based research assistants: proposing scientific ideas that are novel, grounded in context, and actually workable. 4. **[Improving Amharic Information Retrieval with Translative and Multi-Agent Debate Retrieval Augmented Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jotie-2026-improving-amharic-information-retrieval-translative/)** *(2026)* The paper tackles retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for Amharic, a widely spoken Ethiopian language with few resources. ## All works 8 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[A Neural Probabilistic Model for Context Based Citation Recommendation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v29i1.9528) Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yet**Wenyi Huang et al.*2015 · 178 citations* 2. **[Table Header Detection and Classification ↗](https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v26i1.8206) Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yet**Jing Fang et al.*63 citations* 3. **[Summarizing Online Forum Discussions – Can Dialog Acts of Individual Messages Help?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bhatia-2014-summarizing-online-forum-discussions-can/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Sumit Bhatia, Prakhar Biyani, Prasenjit Mitra*2014 · 59 citations* 4. [**Iterative Hypothesis Generation for Scientific Discovery with Monte Carlo Nash Equilibrium Self-Refining Trees arXiv:2503.19309**Gollam Rabby, Diyana Muhammed, Prasenjit Mitra, et al.*2025 · 6 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rabby-2025-iterative-hypothesis-generation-scientific-discovery/) 5. [**SCI-IDEA: Context-Aware Scientific Ideation Using Token and Sentence Embeddings arXiv:2503.19257**Farhana Keya, Gollam Rabby, Prasenjit Mitra, et al.*2025 · 4 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/keya-2025-sci-idea-context-aware-scientific/) 6. **[Improving Amharic Information Retrieval with Translative and Multi-Agent Debate Retrieval Augmented Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jotie-2026-improving-amharic-information-retrieval-translative/) [Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/rail/)**Abel Alemu Jotie, Prasenjit Mitra*2026* 7. **[When Does Data Augmentation Help? Evaluating LLM and Back-Translation Methods for Hausa and Fongbe NLP ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12540) arXiv:2604.12540 · no summary yet**Mahounan Pericles Adjovi, Roald Eiselen, Prasenjit Mitra*2026* 8. **[Evaluating Large Language Models for Hausa and Fongbe Machine Translation: Benchmarks, Failures, and Metric Reliability ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22269) arXiv:2606.22269 · no summary yet**Mahounan Pericles Adjovi, Roald Eiselen, Prasenjit Mitra*2026* ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Gollam Rabby](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gollam-rabby/) ×2 - [Soren Auer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/soren-auer/) ×2 - [Sumit Bhatia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sumit-bhatia/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence ×2 - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2014](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2014/) - [Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/rail/): [Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) @ LREC 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/rail/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 48 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [7 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/prasenjit-mitra/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026