OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics is 11. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The Ethics of Automating Legal Actors	478
Overcoming Source Object Grounding for Semantic Image Editing	250
From Robustness to Improved Generalization and Calibration in Pre-trained Language Models	203
KEFT: Knowledge-Enhanced Fine-Tuning for Large Language Models in Domain-Specific Question Answering	202
DARE: Diverse Visual Question Answering with Robustness Evaluation	180
Cross-functional Analysis of Generalization in Behavioral Learning	131
Segmentation-Free Streaming Machine Translation	96
Transformers for Tabular Data Representation: A Survey of Models and Applications	95
State of What Art? A Call for Multi-Prompt LLM Evaluation	92
Understanding and Detecting Hallucinations in Neural Machine Translation via Model Introspection	91
Persona-Aware Alignment Framework for Personalized Dialogue Generation	86
Erasure of Unaligned Attributes from Neural Representations	85
Aggretriever: A Simple Approach to Aggregate Textual Representations for Robust Dense Passage Retrieval	77
Revisiting Meta-evaluation for Grammatical Error Correction	75
A Survey of Text Games for Reinforcement Learning Informed by Natural Language	71
T 2 -NER: A Two-Stage Span-Based Framework for Unified Named Entity Recognition with Templates	67
The Flores-101 Evaluation Benchmark for Low-Resource and Multilingual Machine Translation	65
A Survey on Automated Fact-Checking	58
Bridging the Gap between Synthetic and Natural Questions via Sentence Decomposition for Semantic Parsing	57
Context-Aware Machine Translation with Source Coreference Explanation	55
Federated Learning for Exploiting Annotators’ Disagreements in Natural Language Processing	52
Frame Representation Hypothesis: Multi-Token LLM Interpretability and Concept-Guided Text Generation	51
mtRAG: A Multi-Turn Conversational Benchmark for Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems	50
Do Multi-Document Summarization Models Synthesize?	49
Learning English with Peppa Pig	49

Benchmarking the Generation of Fact Checking Explanations	44
DEAR: Disentangled Event-Agnostic Representation Learning for Early Fake News Detection	44
Uncertainty Estimation and Reduction of Pre-trained Models for Text Regression	44
Retrieval-Pretrained Transformer: Long-range Language Modeling with Self-retrieval	42
Time-Aware Language Models as Temporal Knowledge Bases	40
Learning More from Mixed Emotions: A Label Refinement Method for Emotion Recognition in Conversations	39
How to Dissect a Muppet: The Structure of Transformer Embedding Spaces	36
Few-Shot Multilingual Open-Domain QA from Five Examples	35
Cross-Lingual Dialogue Dataset Creation via Outline-Based Generation	35
Scientia Potentia Est—On the Role of Knowledge in Computational Argumentation	34
Compositional Evaluation on Japanese Textual Entailment and Similarity	32
Quality at a Glance: An Audit of Web-Crawled Multilingual Datasets	31
To Diverge or Not to Diverge: A Morphosyntactic Perspective on Machine Translation vs Human Translation	31
Adversarial Defense without Adversarial Defense : Enhancing Language Model Robustness via Instance-level Principal Component Removal	31
Culturally Aware and Adapted NLP: A Taxonomy and a Survey of the State of the Art	30
Morphology Without Borders: Clause-Level Morphology	27
An Energy-based Model for Word-level AutoCompletion in Computer-aided Translation	26
Break, Perturb, Build: Automatic Perturbation of Reasoning Paths Through Question Decomposition	25
Transformer Grammars: Augmenting Transformer Language Models with Syntactic Inductive Biases at Scale	25
Toward Robust RALMs: Revealing the Impact of Imperfect Retrieval on Retrieval-Augmented Language Models	25
PADA: Example-based Prompt Learning for on-the-fly Adaptation to Unseen Domains	25
Analyzing and Adapting Large Language Models for Few-Shot Multilingual NLU: Are We There Yet?	24
Accurate and Efficient Fine-Tuning of Quantized Large Language Models Through Optimal Balance in Adaptation	24
Communication Drives the Emergence of Language Universals in Neural Agents: Evidence from the Word-order/Case-marking Trade-off	24
Questions Are All You Need to Train a Dense Passage Retriever	24
Are Triggers Needed for Document-Level Event Extraction?	24
ProoFVer: Natural Logic Theorem Proving for Fact Verification	23
Conformal Prediction for Natural Language Processing: A Survey	22
Template-based Abstractive Microblog Opinion Summarization	22
True Few-Shot Learning with Prompts—A Real-World Perspective	21
Adapting to the Long Tail: A Meta-Analysis of Transfer Learning Research for Language Understanding Tasks	20
Prompt Contrastive Transformation: An Enhanced Strategy for Efficient Prompt Transfer in Natural Language Processing	20
Navigating Cultural Chasms: Exploring and Unlocking the Cultural POV of Text-To-Image Models	19
Navigating the Landscape of Hint Generation Research: From the Past to the Future	18
Canine: Pre-training an Efficient Tokenization-Free Encoder for Language Representation	17
Are Character-level Translations Worth the Wait? Comparing ByT5 and mT5 for Machine Translation	16
InSCIt: Information-Seeking Conversations with Mixed-Initiative Interactions	16
Retrieve What You Need: A Mutual Learning Framework for Open-domain Question Answering	16
Neuron-level Interpretation of Deep NLP Models: A Survey	15
CRAFT Your Dataset: Task-Specific Synthetic Dataset Generation Through Corpus Retrieval and Augmentation	15
Efficient Long-Text Understanding with Short-Text Models	15
OpenFact: Factuality Enhanced Open Knowledge Extraction	15
Salute the Classic: Revisiting Challenges of Machine Translation in the Age of Large Language Models	15
Improving Probability-based Prompt Selection Through Unified Evaluation and Analysis	15
Interactive Machine Teaching by Labeling Rules and Instances	14
Robust Pronoun Fidelity with English LLMs: Are they Reasoning, Repeating, or Just Biased?	14
A Confidence-based Acquisition Model for Self-supervised Active Learning and Label Correction	13
Objectifying the Subjective: Cognitive Biases in Topic Interpretations	13
MENLI: Robust Evaluation Metrics from Natural Language Inference	13
Sense-specific Historical Word Usage Generation	13

ABNIRML: Analyzing the Behavior of Neural IR Models	13
Addressing the Binning Problem in Calibration Assessment through Scalar Annotations	13
Structural Persistence in Language Models: Priming as a Window into Abstract Language Representations	13
Learning Fair Representations via Rate-Distortion Maximization	12
BharatBBQ: A Multilingual Bias Benchmark for Question Answering in the Indian Context	12
Explainable Abuse Detection as Intent Classification and Slot Filling	12
Pre-train, Prompt, and Recommendation: A Comprehensive Survey of Language Modeling Paradigm Adaptations in Recommender Systems	12
NLP Security and Ethics, in the Wild	11
Safe Pruning LoRA: Robust Distance-Guided Pruning for Safety Alignment in Adaptation of LLMs	11
Investigating Critical Period Effects in Language Acquisition through Neural Language Models	11
TaxoPro: A Plug-In LoRA-based Cross-Domain Method for Low-Resource Taxonomy Completion	11
Modeling Emotion Dynamics in Song Lyrics with State Space Models	11
Is My Model Using the Right Evidence? Systematic Probes for Examining Evidence-Based Tabular Reasoning	11
Adding Chocolate to Mint : Mitigating Metric Interference in Machine Translation	11
How “Real” is Your Real-Time Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation System?	11
Human Choice Prediction in Language-based Persuasion Games: Simulation-based Off-Policy Evaluation	11