OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Ethics of Automating Legal Actors	189
Cross-functional Analysis of Generalization in Behavioral Learning	164
From Robustness to Improved Generalization and Calibration in Pre-trained Language Models	111
Segmentation-Free Streaming Machine Translation	90
Transformers for Tabular Data Representation: A Survey of Models and Applications	86
Understanding and Detecting Hallucinations in Neural Machine Translation via Model Introspection	81
State of What Art? A Call for Multi-Prompt LLM Evaluation	77
A Survey of Text Games for Reinforcement Learning Informed by Natural Language	69
Erasure of Unaligned Attributes from Neural Representations	67
Aggretriever: A Simple Approach to Aggregate Textual Representations for Robust Dense Passage Retrieval	63
Revisiting Meta-evaluation for Grammatical Error Correction	62
T 2 -NER: A Two-Stage Span-Based Framework for Unified Named Entity Recognition with Templates	54
The Flores-101 Evaluation Benchmark for Low-Resource and Multilingual Machine Translation	45
A Survey on Automated Fact-Checking	40
Time-Aware Language Models as Temporal Knowledge Bases	39
Benchmarking the Generation of Fact Checking Explanations	39
Uncertainty Estimation and Reduction of Pre-trained Models for Text Regression	35
DEAR: Disentangled Event-Agnostic Representation Learning for Early Fake News Detection	34
Bridging the Gap between Synthetic and Natural Questions via Sentence Decomposition for Semantic Parsing	32
Learning English with Peppa Pig	31
Retrieval-Pretrained Transformer: Long-range Language Modeling with Self-retrieval	31
Learning More from Mixed Emotions: A Label Refinement Method for Emotion Recognition in Conversations	28
Federated Learning for Exploiting Annotators’ Disagreements in Natural Language Processing	28
Do Multi-Document Summarization Models Synthesize?	27
How to Dissect a Muppet: The Structure of Transformer Embedding Spaces	25

Context-Aware Machine Translation with Source Coreference Explanation	25
To Diverge or Not to Diverge: A Morphosyntactic Perspective on Machine Translation vs Human Translation	24
Compositional Evaluation on Japanese Textual Entailment and Similarity	23
Quality at a Glance: An Audit of Web-Crawled Multilingual Datasets	22
Cross-Lingual Dialogue Dataset Creation via Outline-Based Generation	22
An Energy-based Model for Word-level AutoCompletion in Computer-aided Translation	21
Morphology Without Borders: Clause-Level Morphology	21
Scientia Potentia Est—On the Role of Knowledge in Computational Argumentation	21
Communication Drives the Emergence of Language Universals in Neural Agents: Evidence from the Word-order/Case-marking Trade-off	19
Conformal Prediction for Natural Language Processing: A Survey	18
Toward Robust RALMs: Revealing the Impact of Imperfect Retrieval on Retrieval-Augmented Language Models	17
Transformer Grammars: Augmenting Transformer Language Models with Syntactic Inductive Biases at Scale	16
ProoFVer: Natural Logic Theorem Proving for Fact Verification	16
Break, Perturb, Build: Automatic Perturbation of Reasoning Paths Through Question Decomposition	16
True Few-Shot Learning with Prompts—A Real-World Perspective	16
PADA: Example-based Prompt Learning for on-the-fly Adaptation to Unseen Domains	16
Retrieve What You Need: A Mutual Learning Framework for Open-domain Question Answering	15
Template-based Abstractive Microblog Opinion Summarization	15
Questions Are All You Need to Train a Dense Passage Retriever	15
InSCIt: Information-Seeking Conversations with Mixed-Initiative Interactions	14
Adapting to the Long Tail: A Meta-Analysis of Transfer Learning Research for Language Understanding Tasks	14
Are Character-level Translations Worth the Wait? Comparing ByT5 and mT5 for Machine Translation	14
Improving Probability-based Prompt Selection Through Unified Evaluation and Analysis	14
OpenFact: Factuality Enhanced Open Knowledge Extraction	13
Canine: Pre-training an Efficient Tokenization-Free Encoder for Language Representation	13
Salute the Classic: Revisiting Challenges of Machine Translation in the Age of Large Language Models	12
Efficient Long-Text Understanding with Short-Text Models	11
Robust Pronoun Fidelity with English LLMs: Are they Reasoning, Repeating, or Just Biased?	11
Interactive Machine Teaching by Labeling Rules and Instances	11
Neuron-level Interpretation of Deep NLP Models: A Survey	11
MENLI: Robust Evaluation Metrics from Natural Language Inference	10
Addressing the Binning Problem in Calibration Assessment through Scalar Annotations	10
ABNIRML: Analyzing the Behavior of Neural IR Models	10
A Confidence-based Acquisition Model for Self-supervised Active Learning and Label Correction	10
Pre-train, Prompt, and Recommendation: A Comprehensive Survey of Language Modeling Paradigm Adaptations in Recommender Systems	10
Structural Persistence in Language Models: Priming as a Window into Abstract Language Representations	10
Investigating Critical Period Effects in Language Acquisition through Neural Language Models	9
Learning Fair Representations via Rate-Distortion Maximization	9
Modeling Emotion Dynamics in Song Lyrics with State Space Models	9
Explainable Abuse Detection as Intent Classification and Slot Filling	9
Is My Model Using the Right Evidence? Systematic Probes for Examining Evidence-Based Tabular Reasoning	8
Evaluating Attribution in Dialogue Systems: The BEGIN Benchmark	8
How “Real” is Your Real-Time Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation System?	8
Self-Rationalization in the Wild: A Large-scale Out-of-Distribution Evaluation on NLI-related tasks	8
Rescue Conversations from Dead-ends: Efficient Exploration for Task-oriented Dialogue Policy Optimization	8
Time-and-Space-Efficient Weighted Deduction	8
PaniniQA: Enhancing Patient Education Through Interactive Question Answering	8
Helpful Neighbors: Leveraging Neighbors in Geographic Feature Pronunciation	7
Data-driven Parsing Evaluation for Child-Parent Interactions	7
Data-to-text Generation with Variational Sequential Planning	7

xcomet : Transparent Machine Translation Evaluation through Fine-grained Error Detection	7
Large Language Models Enable Few-Shot Clustering	7
Sub-Character Tokenization for Chinese Pretrained Language Models	7
Not Eliminate but Aggregate: Post-Hoc Control over Mixture-of-Experts to Address Shortcut Shifts in Natural Language Understanding	7
End-to-end Argument Mining with Cross-corpora Multi-task Learning	7
Decomposing and Recomposing Event Structure	6
Samanantar: The Largest Publicly Available Parallel Corpora Collection for 11 Indic Languages	6
QAmeleon: Multilingual QA with Only 5 Examples	6
CreoleVal: Multilingual Multitask Benchmarks for Creoles	6
Assessing the Capacity of Transformer to Abstract Syntactic Representations: A Contrastive Analysis Based on Long-distance Agreement	6
Bridging the Gap: A Survey on Integrating (Human) Feedback for Natural Language Generation	6
Evaluating Transformer Models and Human Behaviors on Chinese Character Naming	6
Scope Ambiguities in Large Language Models	6
Visual Spatial Reasoning	6
FeTaQA: Free-form Table Question Answering	6
Direct Speech Translation for Automatic Subtitling	6
A Cross-Linguistic Pressure for Uniform Information Density in Word Order	6
Benchmarking Large Language Models for News Summarization	6
Hallucinations in Large Multilingual Translation Models	5
Speak, Read and Prompt: High-Fidelity Text-to-Speech with Minimal Supervision	5
Conformalizing Machine Translation Evaluation	5
Expectations over Unspoken Alternatives Predict Pragmatic Inferences	5
Diff-Explainer: Differentiable Convex Optimization for Explainable Multi-hop Inference	5
Meta-Learning the Difference: Preparing Large Language Models for Efficient Adaptation	5
Chinese Idiom Paraphrasing	5
How Abstract Is Linguistic Generalization in Large Language Models? Experiments with Argument Structure	5
Abstractive Meeting Summarization: A Survey	5
Visually Grounded Speech Models Have a Mutual Exclusivity Bias	5
Can Authorship Representation Learning Capture Stylistic Features?	5
Causal Inference in Natural Language Processing: Estimation, Prediction, Interpretation and Beyond	4
A Multi-Level Optimization Framework for End-to-End Text Augmentation	4
Cultural Adaptation of Recipes	4
Comparing Humans and Large Language Models on an Experimental Protocol Inventory for Theory of Mind Evaluation (EPITOME)	4
Collective Human Opinions in Semantic Textual Similarity	4
Robust Dialogue State Tracking with Weak Supervision and Sparse Data	4
♫ MuSiQue: Multihop Questions via Single-hop Question Composition	4
Improving the Domain Adaptation of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Models for Open Domain Question Answering	4
Compositional Generalization in Multilingual Semantic Parsing over Wikidata	4
The Parallelism Tradeoff: Limitations of Log-Precision Transformers	4
The Emergence of Argument Structure in Artificial Languages	4
mGPT: Few-Shot Learners Go Multilingual	4
Visual Writing Prompts: Character-Grounded Story Generation with Curated Image Sequences	4
Investigating Reasons for Disagreement in Natural Language Inference	3
Less is More: Mitigate Spurious Correlations for Open-Domain Dialogue Response Generation Models by Causal Discovery	3
How Much Semantic Information is Available in Large Language Model Tokens?	3
Hierarchical Indexing for Retrieval-Augmented Opinion Summarization	3
Exploring Contrast Consistency of Open-Domain Question Answering Systems on Minimally Edited Questions	3
Ultra-fine Entity Typing with Indirect Supervision from Natural Language Inference	3
Meta-Learning a Cross-lingual Manifold for Semantic Parsing	3
Document Summarization with Latent Queries	3
ReCOGS: How Incidental Details of a Logical Form Overshadow an Evaluation of Semantic Interpretation	3
KoBBQ: Korean Bias Benchmark for Question Answering	3
AfriSpeech-200: Pan-African Accented Speech Dataset for Clinical and General Domain ASR	3
Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts	3
Do Text Simplification Systems Preserve Meaning? A Human Evaluation via Reading Comprehension	2
Sentence Similarity Based on Contexts	2
Relational Memory-Augmented Language Models	2
Self-supervised Topic Taxonomy Discovery in the Box Embedding Space	2
FaithDial: A Faithful Benchmark for Information-Seeking Dialogue	2
The Impact of Word Splitting on the Semantic Content of Contextualized Word Representations	2
How Often Are Errors in Natural Language Reasoning Due to Paraphrastic Variability?	2
Decision-Oriented Dialogue for Human-AI Collaboration	2
Can Authorship Attribution Models Distinguish Speakers in Speech Transcripts?	2
Naturalistic Causal Probing for Morpho-Syntax	2
Saturated Transformers are Constant-Depth Threshold Circuits	2
Unleashing the True Potential of Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Sequence Tagging and Structure Parsing	2
Do LLMs Exhibit Human-like Response Biases? A Case Study in Survey Design	2
Data-driven Model Generalizability in Crosslinguistic Low-resource Morphological Segmentation	2
Explicitly Representing Syntax Improves Sentence-to-Layout Prediction of Unexpected Situations	2
Automatically Correcting Large Language Models: Surveying the Landscape of Diverse Automated Correction Strategies	2
Heterogeneous Supervised Topic Models	2
Optimal Transport Posterior Alignment for Cross-lingual Semantic Parsing	2
Retrieve Fast, Rerank Smart: Cooperative and Joint Approaches for Improved Cross-Modal Retrieval	2
Shared Lexical Items as Triggers of Code Switching	2
Why Does Surprisal From Larger Transformer-Based Language Models Provide a Poorer Fit to Human Reading Times?	2
A Survey on Model Compression for Large Language Models	2
Tracking Brand-Associated Polarity-Bearing Topics in User Reviews	2
Eliciting the Translation Ability of Large Language Models via Multilingual Finetuning with Translation Instructions	2
Hate Speech Classifiers Learn Normative Social Stereotypes	2