Deb Roy

19.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
172 papers, 10.6k citations indexed

About

Deb Roy is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Deb Roy has authored 172 papers receiving a total of 10.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 40 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 19 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Deb Roy's work include Speech and dialogue systems (55 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (31 papers) and Topic Modeling (23 papers). Deb Roy is often cited by papers focused on Speech and dialogue systems (55 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (31 papers) and Topic Modeling (23 papers). Deb Roy collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Deb Roy's co-authors include Sinan Aral, Soroush Vosoughi, Alex Pentland, Noshir Contractor, Devon D. Brewer, David Lazer, Marshall Van Alstyne, James H. Fowler, Myron P. Gutmann and Tony Jebara and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Deb Roy

158 papers receiving 9.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The spread of true and false news online

2018 4.4k citations Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy et al. Science profile →
Computational Social Science

2009 2.1k citations Sinan Aral, Deb Roy et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Deb Roy United States	31	4.7k	3.5k	1.8k	1.6k	1.3k	172	10.6k
Peter Pirolli United States	46	1.8k 0.4×	2.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	3.2k 2.4×	137	9.6k
David Lazer United States	46	6.6k 1.4×	2.3k 0.6×	3.2k 1.8×	2.0k 1.2×	1.4k 1.0×	185	13.3k
Kathleen M. Carley United States	62	4.7k 1.0×	2.9k 0.8×	2.4k 1.3×	3.5k 2.2×	2.2k 1.7×	486	15.2k
Dan Cosley United States	38	2.0k 0.4×	1.4k 0.4×	1.5k 0.8×	828 0.5×	1.8k 1.4×	108	6.5k
Thomas W. Malone United States	47	3.2k 0.7×	2.6k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	417 0.3×	2.8k 2.1×	148	16.5k
Loren Terveen United States	47	2.1k 0.4×	2.8k 0.8×	1.8k 1.0×	895 0.6×	5.2k 4.0×	174	10.5k
Steve Whittaker United States	53	1.8k 0.4×	1.9k 0.5×	1.3k 0.7×	297 0.2×	1.3k 1.0×	193	9.3k
Jeffrey T. Hancock United States	63	6.9k 1.5×	3.2k 0.9×	2.3k 1.3×	712 0.4×	1.7k 1.3×	220	13.8k
Karrie Karahalios United States	38	2.1k 0.5×	1.5k 0.4×	937 0.5×	603 0.4×	843 0.6×	168	5.9k
S. Shyam Sundar United States	59	7.6k 1.6×	2.9k 0.8×	2.8k 1.6×	353 0.2×	698 0.5×	248	13.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Deb Roy

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Fields of papers citing papers by Deb Roy

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Deb Roy

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Deb Roy. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Deb Roy based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Deb Roy. Deb Roy is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Roy, Deb, et al.. (2025). Meeting at Crossroads: An exploration of playful listening through a co-creative AI game. 1–11. 1 indexed citations

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Roy, Deb, et al.. (2024). SenseMate: An Accessible and Beginner-Friendly Human-AI Platform for Qualitative Data Analysis. 922–939. 7 indexed citations

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Beeferman, Doug, et al.. (2024). AudienceView: AI-Assisted Interpretation of Audience Feedback in Journalism. 65–68.

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Schroeder, Hope, et al.. (2024). Fora: A corpus and framework for the study of facilitated dialogue. 13985–14001.

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Roy, Deb, et al.. (2024). Anonymization of Voices in Spaces for Civic Dialogue: Measuring Impact on Empathy, Trust, and Feeling Heard. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 8(CSCW2). 1–22.

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Vosoughi, Soroush, Deb Roy, & Sinan Aral. (2018). The spread of true and false news online. Science. 359(6380). 1146–1151. 4419 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vosoughi, Soroush & Deb Roy. (2012). An Automatic Child-Directed Speech Detector for the Study of Child Language Development.. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 2478–2481. 1 indexed citations

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Orkin, Jeff & Deb Roy. (2012). Understanding Speech in Interactive Narratives with Crowdsourced Data. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. 8(1). 57–62. 7 indexed citations

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Roy, Brandon, Michael C. Frank, & Deb Roy. (2012). Relating Activity Contexts to Early Word Learning in Dense Longitudinal Data. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 16 indexed citations

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Kollar, Thomas, Stefanie Tellex, Deb Roy, & Nicholas Roy. (2012). Grounding Verbs of Motion in Natural Language Commands to Robots. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 22 indexed citations

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Meyer, Meredith, Philip DeCamp, Bridgette Martin Hard, Dare A. Baldwin, & Deb Roy. (2010). Assessing Behavioral and Computational Approaches to Naturalistic Action Segmentation. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 32(32). 9 indexed citations

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Vosoughi, Soroush, Brandon Roy, Michael C. Frank, & Deb Roy. (2010). Contributions of Prosodic and Distributional Features of Caregivers' Speech in Early Word Learning. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 32(32). 15 indexed citations

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Kollar, Thomas, Stefanie Tellex, Deb Roy, & Nicholas Roy. (2010). Toward understanding natural language directions. 259–266. 67 indexed citations

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Roy, Brandon, Michael C. Frank, & Deb Roy. (2009). Exploring Word Learning in a High-Density Longitudinal Corpus. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 31(31). 52 indexed citations

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Orkin, Jeff & Deb Roy. (2009). Automatic learning and generation of social behavior from collective human gameplay. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 385–392. 47 indexed citations

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Fleischman, Michael & Deb Roy. (2008). Grounded Language Modeling for Automatic Speech Recognition of Sports Video. Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 121–129. 17 indexed citations

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Roy, Deb, Sudeshna Sarkar, & S. Ghose. (2007). Learning Material Annotation for Flexible Tutoring System. Journal of Intelligent Systems. 16(4). 293–306. 2 indexed citations

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Orkin, Jeff & Deb Roy. (2007). The Restaurant Game: Learning Social Behavior and Language from Thousands of Players Online. 3(2 Pt 1). 39–60. 81 indexed citations

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Gorniak, Peter & Deb Roy. (2005). Speaking with Your Sidekick: Understanding Situated Speech in Computer Role Playing Games. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. 1(1). 57–62. 23 indexed citations

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Roy, Deb. (2004). Grounding Language in the World: Signs, Schemas, and Meaning.. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 109. 1 indexed citations

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