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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Persona-Aware Alignment Framework for Personalized Dialogue Generation	809
Overcoming Source Object Grounding for Semantic Image Editing	303
From Robustness to Improved Generalization and Calibration in Pre-trained Language Models	287
Cross-functional Analysis of Generalization in Behavioral Learning	255
Segmentation-Free Streaming Machine Translation	143
The Ethics of Automating Legal Actors	111
M o N a C o : More Natural and Complex Question	101
DARE: Diverse Visual Question Answering with Robustness Evaluation	91
KEFT: Knowledge-Enhanced Fine-Tuning for Large Language Models in Domain-Specific Question Answering	90
State of What Art? A Call for Multi-Prompt LLM Evaluation	83
How to Select Datapoints for Efficient Human Evaluation of NLG Models?	81
Transformers for Tabular Data Representation: A Survey of Models and Applications	77
Understanding and Detecting Hallucinations in Neural Machine Translation via Model Introspection	74
Erasure of Unaligned Attributes from Neural Representations	68
Aggretriever: A Simple Approach to Aggregate Textual Representations for Robust Dense Passage Retrieval	65
Revisiting Meta-evaluation for Grammatical Error Correction	64
T 2 -NER: A Two-Stage Span-Based Framework for Unified Named Entity Recognition with Templates	62
Bridging the Gap between Synthetic and Natural Questions via Sentence Decomposition for Semantic Parsing	61
Context-Aware Machine Translation with Source Coreference Explanation	56
Benchmarking the Generation of Fact Checking Explanations	53
Investigating Adversarial Trigger Transfer in Large Language Models	45
DEAR: Disentangled Event-Agnostic Representation Learning for Early Fake News Detection	45
Do Multi-Document Summarization Models Synthesize?	41
Retrieval-Pretrained Transformer: Long-range Language Modeling with Self-retrieval	39
Federated Learning for Exploiting Annotators’ Disagreements in Natural Language Processing	39

Frame Representation Hypothesis: Multi-Token LLM Interpretability and Concept-Guided Text Generation	39
mtRAG: A Multi-Turn Conversational Benchmark for Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems	38
Learning More from Mixed Emotions: A Label Refinement Method for Emotion Recognition in Conversations	35
Few-Shot Multilingual Open-Domain QA from Five Examples	35
Accelerating Language Model Workflows with Prompt Choreography	35
Cross-Lingual Dialogue Dataset Creation via Outline-Based Generation	30
Adversarial Defense without Adversarial Defense : Enhancing Language Model Robustness via Instance-level Principal Component Removal	29
To Diverge or Not to Diverge: A Morphosyntactic Perspective on Machine Translation vs Human Translation	28
Ev2R: Evaluating Evidence Retrieval in Automated Fact-Checking	28
Culturally Aware and Adapted NLP: A Taxonomy and a Survey of the State of the Art	28
PsyMem: Fine-grained Psychological Alignment and Explicit Memory Control for Advanced Role-Playing LLMs	27
Analyzing and Adapting Large Language Models for Few-Shot Multilingual NLU: Are We There Yet?	25
Are Triggers Needed for Document-Level Event Extraction?	23
Accurate and Efficient Fine-Tuning of Quantized Large Language Models Through Optimal Balance in Adaptation	23
Communication Drives the Emergence of Language Universals in Neural Agents: Evidence from the Word-order/Case-marking Trade-off	21
Questions Are All You Need to Train a Dense Passage Retriever	18
Conformal Prediction for Natural Language Processing: A Survey	18
Prompt Contrastive Transformation: An Enhanced Strategy for Efficient Prompt Transfer in Natural Language Processing	18
Aligned Probing: Relating Toxic Behavior and Model Internals	18
Toward Robust RALMs: Revealing the Impact of Imperfect Retrieval on Retrieval-Augmented Language Models	18
Improving Probability-based Prompt Selection Through Unified Evaluation and Analysis	18
An Energy-based Model for Word-level AutoCompletion in Computer-aided Translation	18
Navigating the Landscape of Hint Generation Research: From the Past to the Future	17
CorefInst: Leveraging LLMs for Multilingual Coreference Resolution	17
Are Character-level Translations Worth the Wait? Comparing ByT5 and mT5 for Machine Translation	16
CRAFT Your Dataset: Task-Specific Synthetic Dataset Generation Through Corpus Retrieval and Augmentation	16
InSCIt: Information-Seeking Conversations with Mixed-Initiative Interactions	16
Retrieve What You Need: A Mutual Learning Framework for Open-domain Question Answering	15
Navigating Cultural Chasms: Exploring and Unlocking the Cultural POV of Text-To-Image Models	15
Efficient Long-Text Understanding with Short-Text Models	14
Interactive Machine Teaching by Labeling Rules and Instances	14
Localizing Factual Inconsistencies in Attributable Text Generation	14
Salute the Classic: Revisiting Challenges of Machine Translation in the Age of Large Language Models	14
OpenFact: Factuality Enhanced Open Knowledge Extraction	14
Addressing the Binning Problem in Calibration Assessment through Scalar Annotations	13
A Confidence-based Acquisition Model for Self-supervised Active Learning and Label Correction	13
Sense-specific Historical Word Usage Generation	12
Robust Pronoun Fidelity with English LLMs: Are they Reasoning, Repeating, or Just Biased?	12
NLP Security and Ethics, in the Wild	12
Objectifying the Subjective: Cognitive Biases in Topic Interpretations	12
MENLI: Robust Evaluation Metrics from Natural Language Inference	12
BharatBBQ: A Multilingual Bias Benchmark for Question Answering in the Indian Context	12
Pre-train, Prompt, and Recommendation: A Comprehensive Survey of Language Modeling Paradigm Adaptations in Recommender Systems	12
Modeling Emotion Dynamics in Song Lyrics with State Space Models	11
Safe Pruning LoRA: Robust Distance-Guided Pruning for Safety Alignment in Adaptation of LLMs	11
Human Choice Prediction in Language-based Persuasion Games: Simulation-based Off-Policy Evaluation	11
Adding Chocolate to Mint : Mitigating Metric Interference in Machine Translation	11
TaxoPro: A Plug-In LoRA-based Cross-Domain Method for Low-Resource Taxonomy Completion	10
How “Real” is Your Real-Time Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation System?	10
MultiBLiMP 1.0: A Massively Multilingual Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs	9

Time-and-Space-Efficient Weighted Deduction	9
Rescue Conversations from Dead-ends: Efficient Exploration for Task-oriented Dialogue Policy Optimization	9
TANQ: An Open Domain Dataset of Table Answered Questions	9
Towards More Realistic Extraction Attacks: An Adversarial Perspective	9
Investigating Critical Period Effects in Language Acquisition through Neural Language Models	9