--- title: "Stefan Wermter — author profile and papers · Speech act theory" description: "Stefan Wermter, Universität Hamburg: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2020), h-index 43 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stefan-wermter/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stefan-wermter/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Stefan Wermter # Stefan Wermter Stefan Wermter has 3 papers in our library, in 2018–2020, 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/), [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/); often with [Chandrakant Bothe](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chandrakant-bothe/), [Cornelius Weber](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cornelius-weber/), [Sven Magg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sven-magg/). 3 papers in our library · 2018–2020 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5033486668) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1343-4775) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112360735) · [**h-index 43**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5033486668) · [688 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5033486668) · [11,241 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5033486668&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stefan-wermter/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 156 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stefan-wermter/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #858](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/9/#star-858) 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=Stefan+Wermter) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Stefan+Wermter) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Stefan+Wermter) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Stefan+Wermter) ## Affiliations [🎓**Universität Hamburg** Hamburg · Germany 1992–2026 · 405 papersEmployment · Director of Knowledge Technology Institute / Professor, Department of Informatics*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universitat-hamburg/) · [🎓**Hamburg University of Technology** Hamburg · Germany 2023–2026 · 11 papers*current*](https://ror.org/04bs1pb34) · [🎓**HAW Hamburg** Hamburg · Germany 2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://ror.org/00fkqwx76) · [🎓**University of Sunderland** Sunderland · United Kingdom 1998–2009 · 101 papers](https://ror.org/04p55hr04) · [🎓**University of Massachusetts Amherst** Amherst Center · United States 1989–1992 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-massachusetts-amherst/) · [🎓**TU Dortmund University** Dortmund · Germany 1990–1992 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tu-dortmund-university/) · [🏛️**Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2020–2021 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/chinese-academy-of-sciences/) · [🔬**Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2020–2021 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/03j7v5j15) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 6 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) 🧭 Topics 3 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/) · [Sentiment & emotion · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2020** 1 paper EDA: Enriching Emotional Dialogue Acts using an Ensemble of Neural Annotators](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bothe-2020-eda-enriching-emotional-dialogue-acts/) ### 2010s [**2018** 2 papers Stefan Wermter's papers of 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stefan-wermter/year/2018/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Continual Lifelong Learning with Neural Networks: A Review](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/parisi-2018-continual-lifelong-learning-neural-networks/)** *(2018 · 3,211 citations)* Neural networks trained on data that arrives over time, rather than as one fixed batch, tend to lose earlier knowledge when they learn new tasks. 2. **[A Context-based Approach for Dialogue Act Recognition using Simple Recurrent Neural Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bothe-2018-context-based-approach-dialogue-act/)** *(2018 · 46 citations)* The paper addresses dialogue act (DA) recognition: labelling each utterance in a conversation as a statement, question, backchannel, answer, and so on. 3. **[EDA: Enriching Emotional Dialogue Acts using an Ensemble of Neural Annotators](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bothe-2020-eda-enriching-emotional-dialogue-acts/)** *(2020 · 5 citations)* Conversational emotion corpora label each utterance with an emotion but say nothing about its dialogue act, the intention or function an utterance performs, such as asking, agreeing, or thanking. ## All works 7 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. [**Continual Lifelong Learning with Neural Networks: A Review arXiv:1802.07569**German I. Parisi, Ronald Kemker, Jose L. Part, et al.*2018 · 3,211 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/parisi-2018-continual-lifelong-learning-neural-networks/) 2. **[A Context-based Approach for Dialogue Act Recognition using Simple Recurrent Neural Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bothe-2018-context-based-approach-dialogue-act/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Chandrakant Bothe, Cornelius Weber, Sven Magg, et al.*2018 · 46 citations* 3. **[A Multimodal German Dataset for Automatic Lip Reading Systems and Transfer Learning](https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.737/) Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · original ↗ · no summary yet**Gerald Schwiebert et al.*2022 · 9 citations* 4. **[Replay to Remember: Continual Layer-Specific Fine-tuning for German Speech Recognition](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44195-0_40) arXiv:2307.07280 · Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning - ICANN 2023, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14,260, 489-500 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Theresa Pekarek Rosin, Stefan Wermter*2023 · 5 citations* 5. **[EDA: Enriching Emotional Dialogue Acts using an Ensemble of Neural Annotators](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bothe-2020-eda-enriching-emotional-dialogue-acts/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Chandrakant Bothe, Cornelius Weber, Sven Magg, et al.*2020 · 5 citations* 6. **[Conversational Analysis of Daily Dialog Data using Polite Emotional Dialogue Acts](https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.256/) Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · original ↗ · no summary yet**Chandrakant Bothe, Stefan Wermter*2022 · 3 citations* 7. **[Large Language Model Data Generation for Enhanced Intent Recognition in German Speech](https://aclanthology.org/2025.konvens-1.30/) Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2025): Long and Short Papers · original ↗ · no summary yet**Theresa Pekarek Rosin, Burak Can Kaplan, Stefan Wermter*2025* ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chandrakant Bothe](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chandrakant-bothe/) ×2 - [Cornelius Weber](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cornelius-weber/) ×2 - [Sven Magg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sven-magg/) ×2 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/) ×4: [LREC 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2020/), [LREC 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2018/) - Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2025): Long and Short Papers ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 156 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [20 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stefan-wermter/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026