--- title: "Nischal Ashok Kumar — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Nischal Ashok Kumar, University of Massachusetts Amherst: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nischal-ashok-kumar/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nischal-ashok-kumar/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Nischal Ashok Kumar # Nischal Ashok Kumar Nischal Ashok Kumar has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, most of them on [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [Code & programming languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/); often with [Andrew Lan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-lan/), [Chung-Wei Hang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chung-wei-hang/), [Henghui Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/henghui-zhu/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5116335870) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7022-5948) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5116335870) · [20 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5116335870) · [199 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5116335870&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nischal-ashok-kumar/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 23 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nischal-ashok-kumar/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10424](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/105/#star-10424) 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=Nischal+Ashok+Kumar) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Nischal+Ashok+Kumar) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Nischal+Ashok+Kumar) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Nischal+Ashok+Kumar) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Massachusetts Amherst** Amherst Center · United States 2022–2026 · 12 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-massachusetts-amherst/) · [🎓**Indian Institute of Technology Patna** Patna · India 2021–2022 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indian-institute-of-technology-patna/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Computer Science Applications · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-science-applications/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Code & programming languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/) · [Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Semantic parsing & meaning representation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nischal-ashok-kumar/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nischal-ashok-kumar/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Improving Socratic Question Generation using Data Augmentation and Preference Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kumar-2024-improving-socratic-question-generation-data/)** *(2024 · 16 citations)* Socratic tutoring helps learners fix their own mistakes through a sequence of guiding questions instead of handing over answers. 2. **[PRACTIQ: A Practical Conversational Text-to-SQL dataset with Ambiguous and Unanswerable Queries](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dong-2025-practiq-practical-conversational-text-sql/)** *(2025 · 15 citations)* Most text-to-SQL benchmarks assume every user question is clear and can be answered from the database. Real users, however, often ask questions that allow several readings or that request data the database does not hold. PRACTIQ fills this gap with a conversational text-to-SQL dataset of about 2,800 dialogues built… ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Andrew Lan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-lan/) - [Chung-Wei Hang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chung-wei-hang/) - [Henghui Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/henghui-zhu/) - [Patrick Ng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/patrick-ng/) - [Wuwei Lan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wuwei-lan/) - [Yiqun Hu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiqun-hu/) - [Zhiguo Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiguo-wang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/): [BEA 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/2024/) - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [NAACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 23 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [9 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nischal-ashok-kumar/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026