OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics is 7. 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
Benchmarking the Generation of Fact Checking Explanations	39
Time-Aware Language Models as Temporal Knowledge Bases	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
Retrieval-Pretrained Transformer: Long-range Language Modeling with Self-retrieval	31
Learning English with Peppa Pig	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
Context-Aware Machine Translation with Source Coreference Explanation	25

How to Dissect a Muppet: The Structure of Transformer Embedding Spaces	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
Scientia Potentia Est—On the Role of Knowledge in Computational Argumentation	21
An Energy-based Model for Word-level AutoCompletion in Computer-aided Translation	21
Morphology Without Borders: Clause-Level Morphology	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
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
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
Template-based Abstractive Microblog Opinion Summarization	15
Questions Are All You Need to Train a Dense Passage Retriever	15
Retrieve What You Need: A Mutual Learning Framework for Open-domain Question Answering	15
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
InSCIt: Information-Seeking Conversations with Mixed-Initiative Interactions	14
Canine: Pre-training an Efficient Tokenization-Free Encoder for Language Representation	13
OpenFact: Factuality Enhanced Open Knowledge Extraction	13
Salute the Classic: Revisiting Challenges of Machine Translation in the Age of Large Language Models	12
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
Efficient Long-Text Understanding with Short-Text Models	11
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
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
Explainable Abuse Detection as Intent Classification and Slot Filling	9
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
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
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
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
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