--- title: "Sudha Rao — author profile and papers" description: "Sudha Rao, Microsoft: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2017–2018), h-index 12 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sudha-rao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sudha-rao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Sudha Rao # Sudha Rao Sudha Rao has 2 papers in our library, in 2017–2018, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Joel Tetreault](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joel-tetreault/). 2 papers in our library · 2017–2018 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5001484153) · [**h-index 12**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5001484153) · [33 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5001484153) · [899 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5001484153&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sudha-rao/#papers) · [🔗 381 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sudha-rao/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #3092](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/31/#star-3092) 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=Sudha+Rao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Sudha+Rao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Sudha+Rao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Sudha+Rao) ## Affiliations [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2019–2026 · 13 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🎓**University of Maryland, College Park** College Park · United States 2015–2018 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-college-park/) 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. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 5[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 2[Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rao-2018-dear-sir-or-madam-may/) · [**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rao-2017-are-you-asking-right-questions/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Dear Sir or Madam, May I Introduce the GYAFC Dataset: Corpus, Benchmarks and Metrics for Formality Style Transfer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rao-2018-dear-sir-or-madam-may/)** *(2018 · 582 citations)* The paper builds the first large parallel corpus for formality transfer. It takes about 53,000 informal sentences each from two Yahoo Answers domains, filtered for length and form, and has crowd workers write one formal rewrite per sentence. Tune and test sets get four expert rewrites each, to reduce the noise of a… 2. **[Are You Asking the Right Questions? Teaching Machines to Ask Clarification Questions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rao-2017-are-you-asking-right-questions/)** *(2017 · 6 citations)* The paper tackles automatically choosing a good clarification question for an underspecified request, using technical help forums as a testbed. ## All works 6 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. [**Dear Sir or Madam, May I Introduce the GYAFC Dataset: Corpus, Benchmarks and Metrics for Formality Style Transfer**Sudha Rao, Joel Tetreault*Machine translation · 582 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rao-2018-dear-sir-or-madam-may/) 2. **[Learning to Ask Good Questions: Ranking Clarification Questions using Neural Expected Value of Perfect Information](https://aclanthology.org/P18-1255/) (original ↗)**Sudha Rao, Hal Daumé III*2018 · Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the… · 229 citations · no summary yet* 3. **[Biomedical Event Extraction using Abstract Meaning Representation](https://aclanthology.org/W17-2315/) (original ↗)**Sudha Rao et al.*2017 · Proceedings of the 16th BioNLP Workshop · 113 citations · no summary yet* 4. **[Parser for Abstract Meaning Representation using Learning to Search](https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.07586) (original ↗)**Sudha Rao et al.*2015 · arXiv:1510.07586 · 10 citations · no summary yet* 5. **[Are You Asking the Right Questions? Teaching Machines to Ask Clarification Questions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rao-2017-are-you-asking-right-questions/)**Sudha Rao*[ACL Student Research Workshop](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl-student-research-workshop/) · 6 citations* 6. **[CLIP@UMD at SemEval-2016 Task 8: Parser for Abstract Meaning Representation using Learning to Search](https://aclanthology.org/S16-1184/) (original ↗)**Sudha Rao et al.*2016 · Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop… · 5 citations · no summary yet* ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Joel Tetreault](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joel-tetreault/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [ACL Student Research Workshop](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl-student-research-workshop/): [2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl-student-research-workshop/2017/) - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2018/) - Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic… - Proceedings of the 16th BioNLP Workshop - Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association… ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 381 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [27 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sudha-rao/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026