OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics is 9. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Persona-Aware Alignment Framework for Personalized Dialogue Generation	868
Overcoming Source Object Grounding for Semantic Image Editing	317
From Robustness to Improved Generalization and Calibration in Pre-trained Language Models	299
Cross-functional Analysis of Generalization in Behavioral Learning	268
Segmentation-Free Streaming Machine Translation	152
The Ethics of Automating Legal Actors	113
M o N a C o : More Natural and Complex Question	111
How to Select Datapoints for Efficient Human Evaluation of NLG Models?	95
KEFT: Knowledge-Enhanced Fine-Tuning for Large Language Models in Domain-Specific Question Answering	93
State of What Art? A Call for Multi-Prompt LLM Evaluation	84
DARE: Diverse Visual Question Answering with Robustness Evaluation	82
Transformers for Tabular Data Representation: A Survey of Models and Applications	79
Understanding and Detecting Hallucinations in Neural Machine Translation via Model Introspection	76
Erasure of Unaligned Attributes from Neural Representations	70
T 2 -NER: A Two-Stage Span-Based Framework for Unified Named Entity Recognition with Templates	68
Aggretriever: A Simple Approach to Aggregate Textual Representations for Robust Dense Passage Retrieval	68
Revisiting Meta-evaluation for Grammatical Error Correction	66
Bridging the Gap between Synthetic and Natural Questions via Sentence Decomposition for Semantic Parsing	63
Context-Aware Machine Translation with Source Coreference Explanation	59
Benchmarking the Generation of Fact Checking Explanations	54
Do Multi-Document Summarization Models Synthesize?	47
Investigating Adversarial Trigger Transfer in Large Language Models	47
Retrieval-Pretrained Transformer: Long-range Language Modeling with Self-retrieval	45
Federated Learning for Exploiting Annotators’ Disagreements in Natural Language Processing	44
mtRAG: A Multi-Turn Conversational Benchmark for Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems	43

Frame Representation Hypothesis: Multi-Token LLM Interpretability and Concept-Guided Text Generation	40
Learning More from Mixed Emotions: A Label Refinement Method for Emotion Recognition in Conversations	40
DEAR: Disentangled Event-Agnostic Representation Learning for Early Fake News Detection	38
Few-Shot Multilingual Open-Domain QA from Five Examples	36
Adversarial Defense without Adversarial Defense : Enhancing Language Model Robustness via Instance-level Principal Component Removal	35
Cross-Lingual Dialogue Dataset Creation via Outline-Based Generation	32
Culturally Aware and Adapted NLP: A Taxonomy and a Survey of the State of the Art	31
Accelerating Language Model Workflows with Prompt Choreography	29
PsyMem: Fine-grained Psychological Alignment and Explicit Memory Control for Advanced Role-Playing LLMs	29
Ev2R: Evaluating Evidence Retrieval in Automated Fact-Checking	28
To Diverge or Not to Diverge: A Morphosyntactic Perspective on Machine Translation vs Human Translation	27
Accurate and Efficient Fine-Tuning of Quantized Large Language Models Through Optimal Balance in Adaptation	27
Communication Drives the Emergence of Language Universals in Neural Agents: Evidence from the Word-order/Case-marking Trade-off	26
Are Triggers Needed for Document-Level Event Extraction?	23
Aligned Probing: Relating Toxic Behavior and Model Internals	21
Analyzing and Adapting Large Language Models for Few-Shot Multilingual NLU: Are We There Yet?	21
A Systematic Assessment of Language Models with Linguistic Minimal Pairs in Chinese	19
An Energy-based Model for Word-level AutoCompletion in Computer-aided Translation	19
Questions Are All You Need to Train a Dense Passage Retriever	19
Toward Robust RALMs: Revealing the Impact of Imperfect Retrieval on Retrieval-Augmented Language Models	19
Prompt Contrastive Transformation: An Enhanced Strategy for Efficient Prompt Transfer in Natural Language Processing	18
Navigating the Landscape of Hint Generation Research: From the Past to the Future	18
Improving Probability-based Prompt Selection Through Unified Evaluation and Analysis	18
InSCIt: Information-Seeking Conversations with Mixed-Initiative Interactions	18
Conformal Prediction for Natural Language Processing: A Survey	18
CorefInst: Leveraging LLMs for Multilingual Coreference Resolution	18
Are Character-level Translations Worth the Wait? Comparing ByT5 and mT5 for Machine Translation	18
Navigating Cultural Chasms: Exploring and Unlocking the Cultural POV of Text-To-Image Models	16
Retrieve What You Need: A Mutual Learning Framework for Open-domain Question Answering	16
Beyond One-Size-Fits-All : Inversion Learning for Highly Effective NLG Evaluation Prompts	16
CRAFT Your Dataset: Task-Specific Synthetic Dataset Generation Through Corpus Retrieval and Augmentation	15
Interactive Machine Teaching by Labeling Rules and Instances	14
Salute the Classic: Revisiting Challenges of Machine Translation in the Age of Large Language Models	14
Efficient Long-Text Understanding with Short-Text Models	14
OpenFact: Factuality Enhanced Open Knowledge Extraction	14
Localizing Factual Inconsistencies in Attributable Text Generation	14
Objectifying the Subjective: Cognitive Biases in Topic Interpretations	13
Sense-specific Historical Word Usage Generation	13
MENLI: Robust Evaluation Metrics from Natural Language Inference	12
Pre-train, Prompt, and Recommendation: A Comprehensive Survey of Language Modeling Paradigm Adaptations in Recommender Systems	12
Robust Pronoun Fidelity with English LLMs: Are they Reasoning, Repeating, or Just Biased?	12
Addressing the Binning Problem in Calibration Assessment through Scalar Annotations	12
BharatBBQ: A Multilingual Bias Benchmark for Question Answering in the Indian Context	12
A Confidence-based Acquisition Model for Self-supervised Active Learning and Label Correction	12
Adding Chocolate to Mint : Mitigating Metric Interference in Machine Translation	11
NLP Security and Ethics, in the Wild	11
TaxoPro: A Plug-In LoRA-based Cross-Domain Method for Low-Resource Taxonomy Completion	11
How “Real” is Your Real-Time Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation System?	10
Modeling Emotion Dynamics in Song Lyrics with State Space Models	10
Investigating Critical Period Effects in Language Acquisition through Neural Language Models	10

Human Choice Prediction in Language-based Persuasion Games: Simulation-based Off-Policy Evaluation	10
Time-and-Space-Efficient Weighted Deduction	9
Rescue Conversations from Dead-ends: Efficient Exploration for Task-oriented Dialogue Policy Optimization	9
Towards More Realistic Extraction Attacks: An Adversarial Perspective	9
Safe Pruning LoRA: Robust Distance-Guided Pruning for Safety Alignment in Adaptation of LLMs	9
PaniniQA: Enhancing Patient Education Through Interactive Question Answering	9
MultiBLiMP 1.0: A Massively Multilingual Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs	9
Self-Rationalization in the Wild: A Large-scale Out-of-Distribution Evaluation on NLI-related tasks	9
TANQ: An Open Domain Dataset of Table Answered Questions	9
Helpful Neighbors: Leveraging Neighbors in Geographic Feature Pronunciation	9