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# Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

Conference series Published by [Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/association-for-computational-linguistics/)

- [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/venues/acl/)
- [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/S4363608652)

[**1,021** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/works/) · [**442,552** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/works/) · [**142,523** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/works/) · [**1979–2026** years of the works here](#years)

## Works by year

Works in our library by year 1,021 dated works from 1979 to 2026; the busiest year is 2020 with 131.

**The numbers**

| Year | Works |
| --- | --- |
| 2026 | 22 |
| 2025 | 17 |
| 2024 | 43 |
| 2023 | 57 |
| 2022 | 51 |
| 2021 | 49 |
| 2020 | 131 |
| 2019 | 107 |
| 2018 | 65 |
| 2017 | 60 |
| 2016 | 44 |
| 2015 | 38 |
| 2014 | 28 |
| 2013 | 26 |
| 2012 | 15 |
| 2011 | 36 |
| 2010 | 20 |
| 2009 | 23 |
| 2008 | 22 |
| 2007 | 16 |
| 2006 | 20 |
| 2005 | 21 |
| 2004 | 17 |
| 2003 | 11 |
| 2002 | 11 |
| 2001 | 8 |
| 2000 | 5 |
| 1999 | 11 |
| 1998 | 10 |
| 1997 | 3 |
| 1996 | 3 |
| 1995 | 6 |
| 1994 | 3 |
| 1993 | 2 |
| 1992 | 2 |
| 1991 | 4 |
| 1990 | 3 |
| 1989 | 1 |
| 1988 | 3 |
| 1987 | 4 |
| 1985 | 1 |
| 1981 | 1 |
| 1979 | 1 |

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[English (125)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Machine translation (118)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Language models & pretraining (100)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Coreference resolution (84)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Sentiment & emotion (62)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (55)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Reasoning (50)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Discourse analysis (48)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (47)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Question answering (39)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Dialogue systems (37)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Semitic languages (30)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Information extraction (29)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/) · [Bias, fairness & safety (28)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Semantic role labeling (27)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/)

**33 more topics**

[Morphology (26)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Summarization (25)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Semantic parsing & meaning representation (24)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/) · [Vision & language (24)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Dependency parsing (22)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/) · [Syntax & grammar formalisms (21)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/) · [Text generation (17)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) · [Knowledge graphs & ontologies (15)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/knowledge-graphs/) · [Named entity recognition (13)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Word sense disambiguation (13)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/) · [Idioms & multiword expressions (12)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/) · [Speech act theory (11)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [Implicature (11)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/implicature/) · [Treebanks (10)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/treebanks/) · [Part-of-speech tagging (10)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/) · [Information retrieval & search (10)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Hebrew & Aramaic (9)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/) · [Tokenization & segmentation (8)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) · [Universal Dependencies (7)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/universal-dependencies/) · [Psycholinguistics & language acquisition (7)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/psycholinguistics/) · [Grammatical error correction & learner language (7)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/grammatical-error-correction/) · [Lexical semantics & word embeddings (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/lexical-semantics/) · [Legal AI (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/legal-ai/) · [Interpretability (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [Efficient models & compression (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/) · [Historical linguistics & language change (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-change/) · [French (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/french/) · [Modern Hebrew (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/modern-hebrew/) · [Code & programming languages (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/) · [Speech & spoken language (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Low-resource languages (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Biblical Hebrew (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/biblical-hebrew/) · [Akkadian and cuneiform NLP (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/akkadian-cuneiform-nlp/)

## Fields

[Computer Science (1,005)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities (967)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Social Sciences (67)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Psychology (41)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Neuroscience (9)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/neuroscience/) · [Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (8)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/) · [Decision Sciences (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Engineering (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/) · [Physics and Astronomy (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/physics-and-astronomy/) · [Mathematics (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/)

## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**Christopher D. Manning**21 works here · 25,934 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-d-manning/) · [🧑‍🔬**Luke Zettlemoyer**21 works here · 21,324 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luke-zettlemoyer/) · [🧑‍🔬**Noah A. Smith**18 works here · 7,728 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noah-a-smith/) · [🧑‍🔬**Yoav Goldberg**18 works here · 5,002 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoav-goldberg/) · [🧑‍🔬**Dan Klein**15 works here · 8,579 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-klein/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ming Zhou**11 works here · 7,066 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ming-zhou/) · [🧑‍🔬**Zhiyuan Liu**11 works here · 3,857 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiyuan-liu/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jian Su**11 works here · 2,973 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-su/) · [🧑‍🔬**Vincent Ng**11 works here · 2,846 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vincent-ng/) · [🧑‍🔬**Xipeng Qiu**10 works here · 3,519 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xipeng-qiu/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ting Liu**10 works here · 2,835 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ting-liu/) · [🧑‍🔬**Yue Zhang**10 works here · 2,125 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yue-zhang/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 63 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 46 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🎓**University of Washington** Seattle · United States 43 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) · [🔬**Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence** Seattle · United States 43 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/allen-institute-for-artificial-intelligence/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 38 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 36 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 33 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) · [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 31 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) · [🏢**Meta** Menlo Park · United States 29 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/meta/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 26 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Bar-Ilan University** Ramat Gan · Israel 25 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bar-ilan-university/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 25 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/)

## Works in our library (1,021)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. [**Bleu: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation**Kishore Papineni, Salim Roukos, Todd Ward, et al.*2002 · 32,065 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/papineni-2002-bleu-method-automatic-evaluation-machine/)
2. [**BART: Denoising Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training for Natural Language Generation, Translation, and Comprehension**Mike Lewis, Yinhan Liu, Naman Goyal, et al.*2020 · 12,752 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lewis-2020-bart-denoising-sequence-sequence-pre/)
3. [**The Stanford CoreNLP Natural Language Processing Toolkit**Christopher Manning, Mihai Surdeanu, John Bauer, et al.*2014 · 8,620 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/manning-2014-stanford-corenlp-natural-language-processing/)
4. [**Learning Word Vectors for Sentiment Analysis**Andrew L. Maas, Raymond E. Daly, Peter T. Pham, et al.*2011 · 4,272 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/maas-2011-learning-word-vectors-sentiment-analysis/)
5. [**Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP**Emma Strubell, Ananya Ganesh, Andrew McCallum*2019 · 4,049 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/strubell-2019-energy-policy-considerations-deep-learning/)
6. [**Accurate Unlexicalized Parsing**Dan Klein, Christopher D. Manning*2003 · 3,942 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/klein-2003-accurate-unlexicalized-parsing/)
7. [**A Sentimental Education: Sentiment Analysis Using Subjectivity Summarization Based on Minimum Cuts**Bo Pang, Lillian Lee*2004 · 3,842 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pang-2004-sentimental-education-sentiment-analysis-subjectivity/)
8. [**Incorporating Non-local Information into Information Extraction Systems by Gibbs Sampling**Jenny Rose Finkel, Trond Grenager, Christopher Manning*2005 · 3,618 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/finkel-2005-incorporating-non-local-information-into/)
9. [**The Berkeley FrameNet Project**Collin F. Baker, Charles J. Fillmore, John B. Lowe*1998 · 3,544 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/baker-1998-berkeley-framenet/)
10. [**Neural Machine Translation of Rare Words with Subword Units**Rico Sennrich, Barry Haddow, Alexandra Birch*2016 · 3,409 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sennrich-2016-neural-machine-translation-rare-words/)
11. [**Know What You Don't Know: Unanswerable Questions for SQuAD**Pranav Rajpurkar, Robin Jia, Percy Liang*2018 · 3,360 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rajpurkar-2018-know-what-you-don-t/)
12. [**Verb Semantics and Lexical Selection**Zhibiao Wu, Martha Palmer*1994 · 3,276 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-1994-verb-semantics-lexical-selection/)
13. [**TriviaQA: A Large Scale Distantly Supervised Challenge Dataset for Reading Comprehension**Mandar Joshi, Eunsol Choi, Daniel Weld, et al.*2017 · 3,204 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/joshi-2017-triviaqa-large-scale-distantly-supervised/)
14. [**Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation Rivaling Supervised Methods**David Yarowsky*1995 · 2,840 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yarowsky-1995-unsupervised-word-sense-disambiguation-rivaling/)
15. [**Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Semantic Orientation Applied to Unsupervised Classification of Reviews**Peter Turney*2002 · 2,826 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/turney-2002-thumbs-up-or-thumbs-down/)
16. [**Seeing Stars: Exploiting Class Relationships for Sentiment Categorization with Respect to Rating Scales**Bo Pang, Lillian Lee*2005 · 2,722 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pang-2005-seeing-stars-exploiting-class-relationships/)
17. [**OpenNMT: Open-Source Toolkit for Neural Machine Translation**Guillaume Klein, Yoon Kim, Yuntian Deng, et al.*2017 · 2,460 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/klein-2017-opennmt-open-source-toolkit-neural/)
18. [**Word Representations: A Simple and General Method for Semi-Supervised Learning**Joseph Turian, Lev-Arie Ratinov, Yoshua Bengio*2010 · 2,421 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/turian-2010-word-representations-simple-general-method/)
19. [**Stanza: A Python Natural Language Processing Toolkit for Many Human Languages**Peng Qi, Yuhao Zhang, Yuhui Zhang, et al.*2020 · 2,347 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qi-2020-stanza-python-natural-language-processing/)
20. [**Biographies, Bollywood, Boom-boxes and Blenders: Domain Adaptation for Sentiment Classification**John Blitzer, Mark Dredze, Fernando Pereira*2007 · 2,329 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/blitzer-2007-biographies-bollywood-boom-boxes-blenders/)
21. [**Conceptual Captions: A Cleaned, Hypernymed, Image Alt-text Dataset For Automatic Image Captioning**Piyush Sharma, Nan Ding, Sebastian Goodman, et al.*2018 · 2,278 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sharma-2018-conceptual-captions-cleaned-hypernymed-image/)
22. [**Reading Wikipedia to Answer Open-Domain Questions**Danqi Chen, Adam Fisch, Jason Weston, et al.*2017 · 2,250 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2017-reading-wikipedia-answer-open-domain/)
23. [**Attention-Based Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Relation Classification**Peng Zhou, Wei Shi, Jun Tian, et al.*2016 · 2,216 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2016-attention-based-bidirectional-long-short/)
24. [**Multimodal Transformer for Unaligned Multimodal Language Sequences**Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai, Shaojie Bai, Paul Pu Liang, et al.*2019 · 2,170 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tsai-2019-multimodal-transformer-unaligned-multimodal-language/)
25. [**How Multilingual is Multilingual BERT?**Telmo Pires, Eva Schlinger, Dan Garrette*2019 · 2,095 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pires-2019-how-multilingual-is-multilingual-bert/)

[See all 1,021 works →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/works/)

Venues, publishers and identifiers from OpenAlex (2026-10-14) and the ACL Anthology; yearly proceedings are counted as one series.