OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics is 10. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The Ethics of Automating Legal Actors	341
Cross-functional Analysis of Generalization in Behavioral Learning	206
From Robustness to Improved Generalization and Calibration in Pre-trained Language Models	165
Segmentation-Free Streaming Machine Translation	149
State of What Art? A Call for Multi-Prompt LLM Evaluation	141
Transformers for Tabular Data Representation: A Survey of Models and Applications	118
Understanding and Detecting Hallucinations in Neural Machine Translation via Model Introspection	88
T 2 -NER: A Two-Stage Span-Based Framework for Unified Named Entity Recognition with Templates	85
Aggretriever: A Simple Approach to Aggregate Textual Representations for Robust Dense Passage Retrieval	79
Erasure of Unaligned Attributes from Neural Representations	78
Revisiting Meta-evaluation for Grammatical Error Correction	73
A Survey of Text Games for Reinforcement Learning Informed by Natural Language	71
The Flores-101 Evaluation Benchmark for Low-Resource and Multilingual Machine Translation	66
A Survey on Automated Fact-Checking	54
DEAR: Disentangled Event-Agnostic Representation Learning for Early Fake News Detection	51
Bridging the Gap between Synthetic and Natural Questions via Sentence Decomposition for Semantic Parsing	50
Learning More from Mixed Emotions: A Label Refinement Method for Emotion Recognition in Conversations	49
Do Multi-Document Summarization Models Synthesize?	47
Learning English with Peppa Pig	46
Retrieval-Pretrained Transformer: Long-range Language Modeling with Self-retrieval	44
Federated Learning for Exploiting Annotators’ Disagreements in Natural Language Processing	43
Context-Aware Machine Translation with Source Coreference Explanation	43
mtRAG: A Multi-Turn Conversational Benchmark for Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems	42
Benchmarking the Generation of Fact Checking Explanations	38
Time-Aware Language Models as Temporal Knowledge Bases	37

Uncertainty Estimation and Reduction of Pre-trained Models for Text Regression	35
Compositional Evaluation on Japanese Textual Entailment and Similarity	33
How to Dissect a Muppet: The Structure of Transformer Embedding Spaces	33
Cross-Lingual Dialogue Dataset Creation via Outline-Based Generation	31
Scientia Potentia Est—On the Role of Knowledge in Computational Argumentation	30
Few-Shot Multilingual Open-Domain QA from Five Examples	29
To Diverge or Not to Diverge: A Morphosyntactic Perspective on Machine Translation vs Human Translation	28
Quality at a Glance: An Audit of Web-Crawled Multilingual Datasets	28
Culturally Aware and Adapted NLP: A Taxonomy and a Survey of the State of the Art	28
Morphology Without Borders: Clause-Level Morphology	26
ProoFVer: Natural Logic Theorem Proving for Fact Verification	25
An Energy-based Model for Word-level AutoCompletion in Computer-aided Translation	25
Conformal Prediction for Natural Language Processing: A Survey	25
Communication Drives the Emergence of Language Universals in Neural Agents: Evidence from the Word-order/Case-marking Trade-off	25
Toward Robust RALMs: Revealing the Impact of Imperfect Retrieval on Retrieval-Augmented Language Models	24
Break, Perturb, Build: Automatic Perturbation of Reasoning Paths Through Question Decomposition	24
PADA: Example-based Prompt Learning for on-the-fly Adaptation to Unseen Domains	23
Transformer Grammars: Augmenting Transformer Language Models with Syntactic Inductive Biases at Scale	23
Questions Are All You Need to Train a Dense Passage Retriever	21
Accurate and Efficient Fine-Tuning of Quantized Large Language Models Through Optimal Balance in Adaptation	21
Template-based Abstractive Microblog Opinion Summarization	20
True Few-Shot Learning with Prompts—A Real-World Perspective	20
Improving Probability-based Prompt Selection Through Unified Evaluation and Analysis	19
Adapting to the Long Tail: A Meta-Analysis of Transfer Learning Research for Language Understanding Tasks	19
Navigating the Landscape of Hint Generation Research: From the Past to the Future	18
Retrieve What You Need: A Mutual Learning Framework for Open-domain Question Answering	18
Canine: Pre-training an Efficient Tokenization-Free Encoder for Language Representation	18
Prompt Contrastive Transformation: An Enhanced Strategy for Efficient Prompt Transfer in Natural Language Processing	18
InSCIt: Information-Seeking Conversations with Mixed-Initiative Interactions	17
Navigating Cultural Chasms: Exploring and Unlocking the Cultural POV of Text-To-Image Models	15
Are Character-level Translations Worth the Wait? Comparing ByT5 and mT5 for Machine Translation	14
Salute the Classic: Revisiting Challenges of Machine Translation in the Age of Large Language Models	14
OpenFact: Factuality Enhanced Open Knowledge Extraction	14
Efficient Long-Text Understanding with Short-Text Models	14
Interactive Machine Teaching by Labeling Rules and Instances	14
Robust Pronoun Fidelity with English LLMs: Are they Reasoning, Repeating, or Just Biased?	13
Sense-specific Historical Word Usage Generation	13
Addressing the Binning Problem in Calibration Assessment through Scalar Annotations	13
Neuron-level Interpretation of Deep NLP Models: A Survey	13
ABNIRML: Analyzing the Behavior of Neural IR Models	12
A Confidence-based Acquisition Model for Self-supervised Active Learning and Label Correction	12
MENLI: Robust Evaluation Metrics from Natural Language Inference	12
Learning Fair Representations via Rate-Distortion Maximization	11
Is My Model Using the Right Evidence? Systematic Probes for Examining Evidence-Based Tabular Reasoning	11
Explainable Abuse Detection as Intent Classification and Slot Filling	11
Modeling Emotion Dynamics in Song Lyrics with State Space Models	11
Pre-train, Prompt, and Recommendation: A Comprehensive Survey of Language Modeling Paradigm Adaptations in Recommender Systems	11
Structural Persistence in Language Models: Priming as a Window into Abstract Language Representations	11
TaxoPro: A Plug-In LoRA-based Cross-Domain Method for Low-Resource Taxonomy Completion	10
Human Choice Prediction in Language-based Persuasion Games: Simulation-based Off-Policy Evaluation	10

TANQ: An Open Domain Dataset of Table Answered Questions	10
Investigating Critical Period Effects in Language Acquisition through Neural Language Models	10
NLP Security and Ethics, in the Wild	10
Time-and-Space-Efficient Weighted Deduction	10
How “Real” is Your Real-Time Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation System?	10
Evaluating Attribution in Dialogue Systems: The BEGIN Benchmark	10