🧑‍🔬 Tamara Sumner

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓University of Colorado BoulderBoulder · United States1992–2026 · 131 papersEmploymentcurrent🎓Northwestern UniversityEvanston · United States2026 · 1 papercurrent🎓University of Colorado SystemBoulder · United States1995–2024 · 14 papers🎓The Open UniversityMilton Keynes · United Kingdom1996–2002 · 8 papers🤝University Corporation for Atmospheric ResearchBoulder · United States2003–2020 · 2 papers🎓University of Colorado DenverDenver · United States2001–2010 · 2 papers

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.

📅 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. Fine-tuning Transformers with Additional Context to Classify Discursive Moves in Mathematics Classrooms (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 (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 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. Fine-tuning Transformers with Additional Context to Classify Discursive Moves in Mathematics ClassroomsWorkshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (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 MovesLanguage Resources and Evaluation Conference (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) ↗AI Magazine · no summary yetSidney K. D’Mello et al.2024 · 20 citations

🤝 Co-authors here

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

• Abhijit Suresh ×2
• James H. Martin ×2
• Jennifer Jacobs ×2
• Margaret Perkoff ×2
• Md Arafat Sultan
• 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): BEA 2022
• Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC): LREC 2022
• Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL): Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (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 →.

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