--- title: "Literature and Literary Theory — papers" description: "Literature and Literary Theory: 340 papers of the Elamur Research library · page 1 of 5 · 1–25, the most cited first — our summary of each, its ideas…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/literature-and-literary-theory/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/literature-and-literary-theory/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [shelves](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/) / [Arts and Humanities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) / Literature and Literary Theory # 📚 Literature and Literary Theory 340 papers · page 1 of 5 · 1–25 · the most cited first · [all shelves](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/) Literature and Literary Theory is a subfield of Arts and Humanities in the OpenAlex classification of science. The topics most of its papers here are on: «Digital Humanities and Scholarship», «Discourse Analysis in Language Studies», «Second Language Learning and Teaching». ## Papers **1** [2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/literature-and-literary-theory/page/2/) … [5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/literature-and-literary-theory/page/5/) [next →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/literature-and-literary-theory/page/2/) 1. [**Rhetorical Structure Theory: Toward a functional theory of text organization**William C. Mann, Sandra A. Thompson*1988 · 4,549 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mann-1988-rhetorical-structure-theory-functional/) 2. [**A Program for Aligning Sentences in Bilingual Corpora**William A. Gale, Kenneth W. Church*1993 · 1,284 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gale-1993-program-aligning-sentences-bilingual-corpora/) 3. [**Diachronic Word Embeddings Reveal Statistical Laws of Semantic Change**William L. Hamilton, Jure Leskovec, Dan Jurafsky*2016 · 1,273 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hamilton-2016-diachronic-word-embeddings-reveal-statistical/) 4. [**Introduction to the Special Issue on the Web as Corpus**Adam Kilgarriff, Gregory Grefenstette*2003 · 1,007 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kilgarriff-2003-introduction-special-issue-web-as/) 5. [**Building a Discourse-Tagged Corpus in the Framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory**Lynn Carlson, Daniel Marcu, Mary Ellen Okurovsky*2001 · 912 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/carlson-2001-building-discourse-tagged-corpus-framework/) 6. [**Hedging in Scientific Research Articles**Ken Hyland*1998 · 803 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hyland-1998-hedging-scientific-research-articles/) 7. [**The JRC-Acquis: A Multilingual Aligned Parallel Corpus with 20+ Languages**Ralf Steinberger, Bruno Pouliquen, Anna Widiger, et al.*2006 · 657 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/steinberger-2006-jrc-acquis-multilingual-aligned-parallel/) 8. [**Building Large Monolingual Dictionaries at the Leipzig Corpora Collection: From 100 to 200 Languages**Dirk Goldhahn, Thomas Eckart, Uwe Quasthoff*2012 · 535 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/goldhahn-2012-building-large-monolingual-dictionaries-leipzig/) 9. [**Temporal Analysis of Language through Neural Language Models**Yoon Kim, Yi-I Chiu, Kentaro Hanaki, et al.*2014 · 439 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kim-2014-temporal-analysis-language-through-neural/) 10. [**Representing Discourse Coherence: A Corpus-Based Study**Florian Wolf, Edward Gibson*2005 · 377 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wolf-2005-representing-discourse-coherence-corpus-based/) 11. [**The ACL Anthology Reference Corpus: A Reference Dataset for Bibliographic Research in Computational Linguistics**Steven Bird, Robert Dale, Bonnie Dorr, et al.*2008 · 366 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bird-2008-acl-anthology-reference-corpus-reference/) 12. [**Tracking Point of View in Narrative**Janyce M. Wiebe*1994 · 360 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wiebe-1994-tracking-point-view-narrative/) 13. [**Introduction to the Special Issue on Computational Linguistics Using Large Corpora**Kenneth W. Church, Robert L. Mercer*1993 · 339 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/church-1993-introduction-special-issue-computational-linguistics/) 14. [**Cultural Shift or Linguistic Drift? Comparing Two Computational Measures of Semantic Change**William L. Hamilton, Jure Leskovec, Dan Jurafsky*2016 · 325 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hamilton-2016-cultural-shift-or-linguistic-drift/) 15. [**S2ORC: The Semantic Scholar Open Research Corpus**Kyle Lo, Lucy Lu Wang, Mark Neumann, et al.*2019 · 298 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lo-2019-s2orc-semantic-scholar-open-research/) 16. [**A Bayesian Mixed Effects Model of Literary Character**David Bamman, Ted Underwood, Noah A. Smith*2014 · 285 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bamman-2014-bayesian-mixed-effects-model-literary/) 17. [**WebAnno: A Flexible, Web-based and Visually Supported System for Distributed Annotations**Seid Muhie Yimam, Iryna Gurevych, Richard Eckart de Castilho, et al.*2013 · 271 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yimam-2013-webanno-flexible-web-based-visually/) 18. [**A distributional similarity approach to the detection of semantic change in the Google Books Ngram corpus.**Kristina Gulordava, Marco Baroni*2011 · 240 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gulordava-2011-distributional-similarity-approach-detection-semantic/) 19. [**The BioScope corpus: annotation for negation, uncertainty and their scope in biomedical texts**György Szarvas, Veronika Vincze, Richárd Farkas, et al.*2008 · 240 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/szarvas-2008-bioscope-corpus-annotation-negation-uncertainty/) 20. [**Modeling Argument Strength in Student Essays**Isaac Persing, Vincent Ng*2015 · 223 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/persing-2015-modeling-argument-strength-student-essays/) 21. [**Automatically Evaluating Text Coherence Using Discourse Relations**Ziheng Lin, Hwee Tou Ng, Min-Yen Kan*2011 · 218 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lin-2011-automatically-evaluating-text-coherence-discourse/) 22. [**Creating a massively parallel Bible corpus**Thomas Mayer, Michael Cysouw*2014 · 196 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mayer-2014-creating-massively-parallel-bible-corpus/) 23. [**A Dataset of Syntactic-Ngrams over Time from a Very Large Corpus of English Books**Yoav Goldberg, Jon Orwant*2013 · 191 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/goldberg-2013-dataset-syntactic-ngrams-over-time/) 24. [**International Standard for a Linguistic Annotation Framework**Nancy Ide, Laurent Romary, Eric de la Clergerie*2003 · 174 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ide-2003-international-standard-linguistic-annotation-framework/) 25. [**Speak, Memory: An Archaeology of Books Known to ChatGPT/GPT-4**Kent K. Chang, Mackenzie Cramer, Sandeep Soni, et al.*2023 · 166 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chang-2023-speak-memory-archaeology-books-known/) **1** [2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/literature-and-literary-theory/page/2/) … [5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/literature-and-literary-theory/page/5/) [next →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/literature-and-literary-theory/page/2/) Updated 24 October 2026 - [← previous subfield Language and Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) - [next subfield → Museology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/museology/) - [↑ back to Arts and Humanities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/)