--- title: "Chulaka Gunasekara · IBM — author profile and papers" description: "Chulaka Gunasekara, IBM: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2020), h-index 13 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chulaka-gunasekara/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chulaka-gunasekara/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Chulaka Gunasekara # Chulaka Gunasekara Chulaka Gunasekara has 2 papers in our library, in 2020, most of them on [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Luis Lastras](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luis-lastras/), [Song Feng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/song-feng/), [Najoung Kim](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/najoung-kim/). 2 papers in our library · 2020 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5023638340) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9272-3684) · [**h-index 13**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5023638340) · [70 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5023638340) · [663 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5023638340&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chulaka-gunasekara/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 109 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chulaka-gunasekara/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4565](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/46/#star-4565) 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=Chulaka+Gunasekara) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Chulaka+Gunasekara) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Chulaka+Gunasekara) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Chulaka+Gunasekara) ## Affiliations [🏢**IBM** Armonk · United States 2018–2026 · 39 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) · [🎓**Syracuse University** Syracuse · United States 2013–2018 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/syracuse-university/) · [🔬**IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center** Yorktown Heights · United States 2018 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-thomas-j-watson-research-center/) · [🎓**University of Massachusetts Amherst** Amherst Center · United States 2023–2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-massachusetts-amherst/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 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 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 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Discourse analysis · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2020** 2 papers Chulaka Gunasekara's papers of 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chulaka-gunasekara/year/2020/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[doc2dial: A Goal-Oriented Document-Grounded Dialogue Dataset](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/feng-2020-doc2dial-goal-oriented-document-grounded/)** *(2020 · 152 citations)* Most existing conversational QA resources, such as QuAC, CoQA and ShARC, ground dialogues in short text snippets and often restrict answers, for example to yes/no. 2. **[Implicit Discourse Relation Classification: We Need to Talk about Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kim-2020-implicit-discourse-relation-classification-we/)** *(2020 · 69 citations)* Results on implicit relation classification in PDTB 2.0 were hard to compare: papers used different label sets (4 top-level senses, 11 or 12 level-2 senses), different test sections (switching sections 21–22 for 23–24 changes the test by 149 items and one label's count by 71, on test sets of about 1,000), different… ## 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. **[doc2dial: A Goal-Oriented Document-Grounded Dialogue Dataset](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/feng-2020-doc2dial-goal-oriented-document-grounded/)**Song Feng, Hui Wan, Chulaka Gunasekara, et al.*[Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/) · 152 citations* 2. [**Implicit Discourse Relation Classification: We Need to Talk about Evaluation**Najoung Kim, Song Feng, Chulaka Gunasekara, et al.*English · 69 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kim-2020-implicit-discourse-relation-classification-we/) 3. **[mt RAG: A Multi-Turn Conversational Benchmark for Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems](https://aclanthology.org/2025.tacl-1.36/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics**Yannis Katsis et al.*2025 · 15 citations* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Luis Lastras](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luis-lastras/) ×2 - [Song Feng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/song-feng/) ×2 - [Najoung Kim](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/najoung-kim/) - [Sachindra Joshi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sachindra-joshi/) ## 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 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2020/) - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2020/) - Transactions of the Association for Computational… ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 109 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [21 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chulaka-gunasekara/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026