🧑‍🔬 Md Arafat Sultan

🏛️ Affiliations

🏢IBMArmonk · United States2019–2025 · 20 paperscurrent🎓Oakland UniversityRochester · United States2025 · 1 papercurrent🎓University of Colorado BoulderBoulder · United States2012–2016 · 10 papers🔬IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research CenterYorktown Heights · United States2020 · 2 papersEmployment🎓University of Colorado SystemBoulder · United States2014–2016 · 2 papers

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🧭 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📅 Works by year

2020s

2010s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. Back to Basics for Monolingual Alignment: Exploiting Word Similarity and Contextual Evidence (2014 · 175 citations)
   The paper tackles monolingual alignment, which means finding which words in two English sentences correspond in meaning.
2. Confidence-Weighted Token Set Cover for Early Hypothesis Pruning in Self-Consistency (2026)
   Self-consistency (majority voting over many sampled solutions) is strong but costly in tokens. Earlier efficiency methods generate samples in sequential batches, which gives up parallelism and adds latency. This paper keeps every hypothesis decoding in parallel but stops the unpromising ones partway through long…

All works

8 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. Back to Basics for Monolingual Alignment: Exploiting Word Similarity and Contextual EvidenceTransactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)Md Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard, Tamara Sumner2014 · 175 citations
2. DLS@CU: Sentence Similarity from Word Alignment and Semantic Vector Composition ↗Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015) · no summary yetMd Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard, Tamara Sumner2015 · 160 citations
3. Fast and Easy Short Answer Grading with High Accuracy ↗Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies · no summary yetMd Arafat Sultan, Cristobal Salazar, Tamara Sumner2016 · 158 citations
4. On the Importance of Diversity in Question Generation for QA ↗Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yetMd Arafat Sultan et al.2020 · 87 citations
5. UDAPDR: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation via LLM Prompting and Distillation of Rerankers ↗Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yetJon Saad-Falcon et al.2023 · 52 citations
6. Moving Beyond Downstream Task Accuracy for Information Retrieval Benchmarking ↗Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023 · no summary yetKeshav Santhanam et al.2023 · 12 citations
7. Prompts as Auto-Optimized Training Hyperparameters: Training Best-in-Class IR Models from Scratch with 10 Gold Labels ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetJasper Xian et al.2024 · 3 citations
8. Confidence-Weighted Token Set Cover for Early Hypothesis Pruning in Self-ConsistencyFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsMd Arafat Sultan, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo2026

🤝 Co-authors here

2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

• Ramón Fernandez Astudillo
• Steven Bethard

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

• Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026
• Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL): Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2014
• Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023
• Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
• Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
• Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
• Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015)

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 183 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 17 citing papers with a page here →.

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