--- title: "Riccardo Serafin — author profile and papers · Speech act theory" description: "Riccardo Serafin: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2003–2004), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/riccardo-serafin/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/riccardo-serafin/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Riccardo Serafin # Riccardo Serafin Riccardo Serafin has 2 papers in our library, in 2003–2004, 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/); often with [Barbara Di Eugenio](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/barbara-di-eugenio/), [Michael Glass](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-glass/). 2 papers in our library · 2003–2004 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5016325563) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3154-4812) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5016325563) · [22 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5016325563) · [136 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5016325563&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/riccardo-serafin/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 13 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/riccardo-serafin/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8169](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/82/#star-8169) 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=Riccardo+Serafin) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Riccardo+Serafin) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Riccardo+Serafin) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Riccardo+Serafin) ## Affiliations [🏥**IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele** Milan · Italy 2006–2008 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/039zxt351) · [🏢**Tecnologías para la Salud y el Bienestar** Paterna · Spain 2010–2013 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/05w0e5x87) 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 4 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/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Dialogue systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Speech act theory · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) 💡 Concepts 3 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Distributional semantics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/distributional-semantics/) · [Latent semantic indexing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/latent-semantic-indexing/) · [Topic modeling · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/topic-modeling/) ## Works by year ### 2000s [**2004** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/riccardo-serafin/year/2004/) · [**2003** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/riccardo-serafin/year/2003/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[FLSA: Extending Latent Semantic Analysis with Features for Dialogue Act Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/serafin-2004-flsa-extending-latent-semantic-analysis/)** *(2004 · 68 citations)* The paper addresses a known weakness of Latent Semantic Analysis: it builds its semantic space from word co-occurrence alone and ignores other annotation a corpus may carry. 2. **[Latent Semantic Analysis for Dialogue Act Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/serafin-2003-latent-semantic-analysis-dialogue-act/)** *(2003 · 20 citations)* The paper asks whether Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), a method that works only from word co-occurrence, can serve as a dialogue act classifier, and whether adding non-lexical information improves it. ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Barbara Di Eugenio](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/barbara-di-eugenio/) ×2 - [Michael Glass](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-glass/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2004](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2004/) - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [NAACL 2003](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2003/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 13 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/riccardo-serafin/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026