--- title: "Tamara Sumner — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Tamara Sumner, Northwestern University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2014–2022), h-index 31 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tamara-sumner/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tamara-sumner/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Tamara Sumner # Tamara Sumner Tamara Sumner has 3 papers in our library, in 2014–2022; often with [Abhijit Suresh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abhijit-suresh/), [James H. Martin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-h-martin/), [Jennifer Jacobs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jennifer-jacobs/). 3 papers in our library · 2014–2022 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5051906525) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8785-3238) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126183273) · [**h-index 31**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5051906525) · [202 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5051906525) · [3,538 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5051906525&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tamara-sumner/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 166 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tamara-sumner/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6056](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/61/#star-6056) 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=Tamara+Sumner) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Tamara+Sumner) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Tamara+Sumner) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Tamara+Sumner) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Colorado Boulder** Boulder · United States 1992–2026 · 131 papersEmployment*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-colorado-boulder/) · [🎓**Northwestern University** Evanston · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northwestern-university/) · [🎓**University of Colorado System** Boulder · United States 1995–2024 · 14 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-colorado-system/) · [🎓**The Open University** Milton Keynes · United Kingdom 1996–2002 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-open-university/) · [🤝**University Corporation for Atmospheric Research** Boulder · United States 2003–2020 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/04zhhyn23) · [🎓**University of Colorado Denver** Denver · United States 2001–2010 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-colorado-denver/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions 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).[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/) · [Education · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/education/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2022** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tamara-sumner/year/2022/) ### 2010s [**2014** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tamara-sumner/year/2014/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Back to Basics for Monolingual Alignment: Exploiting Word Similarity and Contextual Evidence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sultan-2014-back-basics-monolingual-alignment-exploiting/)** *(2014 · 175 citations)* The paper tackles monolingual alignment, which means finding which words in two English sentences correspond in meaning. 2. **[Fine-tuning Transformers with Additional Context to Classify Discursive Moves in Mathematics Classrooms](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/suresh-2022-fine-tuning-transformers-additional-context/)** *(2022 · 46 citations)* Teachers use "talk moves", discourse strategies from accountable talk theory, to get students explaining and building on each other's ideas. 3. **[The TalkMoves Dataset: K-12 Mathematics Lesson Transcripts Annotated for Teacher and Student Discursive Moves](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/suresh-2022-talkmoves-dataset-k-12-mathematics/)** *(2022 · 43 citations)* Privacy and practical constraints mean classroom recordings are rarely shared, so researchers building NLP tools for education have little public data. ## All works 6 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. **[Back to Basics for Monolingual Alignment: Exploiting Word Similarity and Contextual Evidence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sultan-2014-back-basics-monolingual-alignment-exploiting/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Md Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard, Tamara Sumner*2014 · 175 citations* 2. **[DLS@CU: Sentence Similarity from Word Alignment and Semantic Vector Composition ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S15-2027/) Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015) · no summary yet**Md Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard, Tamara Sumner*2015 · 160 citations* 3. **[Fast and Easy Short Answer Grading with High Accuracy ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1123/) Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies · no summary yet**Md Arafat Sultan, Cristobal Salazar, Tamara Sumner*2016 · 158 citations* 4. **[Fine-tuning Transformers with Additional Context to Classify Discursive Moves in Mathematics Classrooms](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/suresh-2022-fine-tuning-transformers-additional-context/) [Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/)**Abhijit Suresh, Jennifer Jacobs, Margaret Perkoff, et al.*2022 · 46 citations* 5. **[The TalkMoves Dataset: K-12 Mathematics Lesson Transcripts Annotated for Teacher and Student Discursive Moves](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/suresh-2022-talkmoves-dataset-k-12-mathematics/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Abhijit Suresh, Jennifer Jacobs, Charis Harty, et al.*2022 · 43 citations* 6. **[From learning optimization to learner flourishing: Reimagining AI in Education at the Institute for Student‐AI Teaming (iSAT) ↗](https://doi.org/10.1002/aaai.12158) AI Magazine · no summary yet**Sidney K. D’Mello et al.*2024 · 20 citations* ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Abhijit Suresh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abhijit-suresh/) ×2 - [James H. Martin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-h-martin/) ×2 - [Jennifer Jacobs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jennifer-jacobs/) ×2 - [Margaret Perkoff](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/margaret-perkoff/) ×2 - [Md Arafat Sultan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/md-arafat-sultan/) - [Steven Bethard](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steven-bethard/) ## 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 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/2022/) - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2022/) - [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2014](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2014/) - AI Magazine - Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 166 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [20 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tamara-sumner/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026