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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Ethics of Automating Legal Actors	309
Cross-functional Analysis of Generalization in Behavioral Learning	197
From Robustness to Improved Generalization and Calibration in Pre-trained Language Models	147
Segmentation-Free Streaming Machine Translation	136
Transformers for Tabular Data Representation: A Survey of Models and Applications	130
Understanding and Detecting Hallucinations in Neural Machine Translation via Model Introspection	100
State of What Art? A Call for Multi-Prompt LLM Evaluation	84
T 2 -NER: A Two-Stage Span-Based Framework for Unified Named Entity Recognition with Templates	82
Erasure of Unaligned Attributes from Neural Representations	78
Revisiting Meta-evaluation for Grammatical Error Correction	74
A Survey of Text Games for Reinforcement Learning Informed by Natural Language	72
The Flores-101 Evaluation Benchmark for Low-Resource and Multilingual Machine Translation	67
Aggretriever: A Simple Approach to Aggregate Textual Representations for Robust Dense Passage Retrieval	64
A Survey on Automated Fact-Checking	47
DEAR: Disentangled Event-Agnostic Representation Learning for Early Fake News Detection	46
Uncertainty Estimation and Reduction of Pre-trained Models for Text Regression	45
Time-Aware Language Models as Temporal Knowledge Bases	42
Bridging the Gap between Synthetic and Natural Questions via Sentence Decomposition for Semantic Parsing	41
Do Multi-Document Summarization Models Synthesize?	40
Learning More from Mixed Emotions: A Label Refinement Method for Emotion Recognition in Conversations	40
Learning English with Peppa Pig	39
Context-Aware Machine Translation with Source Coreference Explanation	39
Retrieval-Pretrained Transformer: Long-range Language Modeling with Self-retrieval	39
Benchmarking the Generation of Fact Checking Explanations	37
To Diverge or Not to Diverge: A Morphosyntactic Perspective on Machine Translation vs Human Translation	33

Federated Learning for Exploiting Annotators’ Disagreements in Natural Language Processing	33
Compositional Evaluation on Japanese Textual Entailment and Similarity	32
How to Dissect a Muppet: The Structure of Transformer Embedding Spaces	31
Cross-Lingual Dialogue Dataset Creation via Outline-Based Generation	29
Few-Shot Multilingual Open-Domain QA from Five Examples	28
Culturally Aware and Adapted NLP: A Taxonomy and a Survey of the State of the Art	28
Quality at a Glance: An Audit of Web-Crawled Multilingual Datasets	26
Morphology Without Borders: Clause-Level Morphology	25
True Few-Shot Learning with Prompts—A Real-World Perspective	25
An Energy-based Model for Word-level AutoCompletion in Computer-aided Translation	25
Scientia Potentia Est—On the Role of Knowledge in Computational Argumentation	25
Communication Drives the Emergence of Language Universals in Neural Agents: Evidence from the Word-order/Case-marking Trade-off	25
ProoFVer: Natural Logic Theorem Proving for Fact Verification	24
Conformal Prediction for Natural Language Processing: A Survey	23
Questions Are All You Need to Train a Dense Passage Retriever	22
PADA: Example-based Prompt Learning for on-the-fly Adaptation to Unseen Domains	20
Toward Robust RALMs: Revealing the Impact of Imperfect Retrieval on Retrieval-Augmented Language Models	20
Transformer Grammars: Augmenting Transformer Language Models with Syntactic Inductive Biases at Scale	19
Break, Perturb, Build: Automatic Perturbation of Reasoning Paths Through Question Decomposition	19
Template-based Abstractive Microblog Opinion Summarization	19
Improving Probability-based Prompt Selection Through Unified Evaluation and Analysis	18
Navigating Cultural Chasms: Exploring and Unlocking the Cultural POV of Text-To-Image Models	18
Navigating the Landscape of Hint Generation Research: From the Past to the Future	18
InSCIt: Information-Seeking Conversations with Mixed-Initiative Interactions	18
Adapting to the Long Tail: A Meta-Analysis of Transfer Learning Research for Language Understanding Tasks	18
Retrieve What You Need: A Mutual Learning Framework for Open-domain Question Answering	17
Are Character-level Translations Worth the Wait? Comparing ByT5 and mT5 for Machine Translation	17
Canine: Pre-training an Efficient Tokenization-Free Encoder for Language Representation	17
Interactive Machine Teaching by Labeling Rules and Instances	16
OpenFact: Factuality Enhanced Open Knowledge Extraction	14
Efficient Long-Text Understanding with Short-Text Models	13
Addressing the Binning Problem in Calibration Assessment through Scalar Annotations	13
Salute the Classic: Revisiting Challenges of Machine Translation in the Age of Large Language Models	13
Sense-specific Historical Word Usage Generation	13
Neuron-level Interpretation of Deep NLP Models: A Survey	13
Robust Pronoun Fidelity with English LLMs: Are they Reasoning, Repeating, or Just Biased?	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
Structural Persistence in Language Models: Priming as a Window into Abstract Language Representations	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
Pre-train, Prompt, and Recommendation: A Comprehensive Survey of Language Modeling Paradigm Adaptations in Recommender Systems	11
Investigating Critical Period Effects in Language Acquisition through Neural Language Models	11
Explainable Abuse Detection as Intent Classification and Slot Filling	11
Modeling Emotion Dynamics in Song Lyrics with State Space Models	11
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
TaxoPro: A Plug-In LoRA-based Cross-Domain Method for Low-Resource Taxonomy Completion	10

TANQ: An Open Domain Dataset of Table Answered Questions	9
Helpful Neighbors: Leveraging Neighbors in Geographic Feature Pronunciation	9
Patchwise Cooperative Game-based Interpretability Method for Large Vision-language Models	9
Data-driven Parsing Evaluation for Child-Parent Interactions	9
Self-Rationalization in the Wild: A Large-scale Out-of-Distribution Evaluation on NLI-related tasks	9
Rescue Conversations from Dead-ends: Efficient Exploration for Task-oriented Dialogue Policy Optimization	9
Sub-Character Tokenization for Chinese Pretrained Language Models	9
Evaluating Attribution in Dialogue Systems: The BEGIN Benchmark	9
PaniniQA: Enhancing Patient Education Through Interactive Question Answering	9
Data-to-text Generation with Variational Sequential Planning	9
xcomet : Transparent Machine Translation Evaluation through Fine-grained Error Detection	9