--- title: "Samira Shaikh — author profile and papers · Speech act theory" description: "Samira Shaikh, University of North Carolina at Charlotte: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2022), h-index 20 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samira-shaikh/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samira-shaikh/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Samira Shaikh # Samira Shaikh Samira Shaikh has 2 papers in our library, in 2018–2022, most of them on [Speech act theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/), [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Khyati Mahajan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/khyati-mahajan/), [Malak Abdullah](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/malak-abdullah/). 2 papers in our library · 2018–2022 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5083688498) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2488-9436) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93357945) · [**h-index 20**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5083688498) · [94 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5083688498) · [1,266 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5083688498&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samira-shaikh/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 227 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samira-shaikh/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7339](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/74/#star-7339) 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=Samira+Shaikh) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Samira+Shaikh) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Samira+Shaikh) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Samira+Shaikh) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of North Carolina at Charlotte** Charlotte · United States 2017–2024 · 59 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-north-carolina-at-charlotte/) · [🎓**University at Albany, State University of New York** Albany · United States 2009–2016 · 21 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-at-albany-state-university-of-new-york/) · [🎓**State University of New York** Albany · United States 2010–2016 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/state-university-of-new-york/) 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).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Social Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/social-psychology/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [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/) · [Speech act theory · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samira-shaikh/year/2022/) ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samira-shaikh/year/2018/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[TeamUNCC at SemEval-2018 Task 1: Emotion Detection in English and Arabic Tweets using Deep Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abdullah-2018-teamuncc-semeval-2018-task-1/)** *(2018 · 68 citations)* The paper describes TeamUNCC's entry to SemEval-2018 Task 1 (Affect in Tweets). The task asks systems to estimate emotion and sentiment intensity in tweets in five forms: EI-reg, EI-oc, V-reg, V-oc and E-c. The team took part in every subtask for both English and Arabic, and they report being the only team to do so.… 2. **[Improving Dialogue Act Recognition with Augmented Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mahajan-2022-improving-dialogue-act-recognition-augmented/)** *(2022 · 2 citations)* The authors build dialogue act recognition (DAR) models for an industrial virtual assistant. They find that a BERT-based classifier fine-tuned on the Schema-Guided Dialogue (SGD) corpus scores very well on SGD but fails on in-house conversations. AFFIRM falls to 0.39 F1 and NEGATE to 0.16. The cause is low variety in… ## All works 3 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. **[The GEM Benchmark: Natural Language Generation, its Evaluation and Metrics ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.gem-1.10/) Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM) · no summary yet**Sebastian Gehrmann et al.*2021 · 369 citations* 2. **[TeamUNCC at SemEval-2018 Task 1: Emotion Detection in English and Arabic Tweets using Deep Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abdullah-2018-teamuncc-semeval-2018-task-1/) [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/)**Malak Abdullah, Samira Shaikh*2018 · 68 citations* 3. **[Improving Dialogue Act Recognition with Augmented Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mahajan-2022-improving-dialogue-act-recognition-augmented/) [Workshop on Generation, Evaluation and Metrics (GEM)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/gem/)**Khyati Mahajan, Soham Parikh, Quaizar Vohra, et al.*2022 · 2 citations* ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Khyati Mahajan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/khyati-mahajan/) - [Malak Abdullah](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/malak-abdullah/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Workshop on Generation, Evaluation and Metrics (GEM)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/gem/): [GEM 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/gem/2022/) - [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/): [SemEval 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2018/) - Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 227 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [43 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samira-shaikh/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026