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# ACL 1987 — accepted papers

ACL 1987 is the 1987 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), held in Stanford, California, USA, July 1987 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 34 papers of it; our library holds 4 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Stanford, California, [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) · 🗓 July 1987

[**34** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**4** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1987/#works) · [**1,096** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1987/#works)

## All accepted papers (34)

The most cited first; 4 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Centering Approach to Pronouns](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/brennan-1987-centering-approach-pronouns/)**Susan E. Brennan, Marilyn W. Friedman, Carl J. Pollard*our summary*
2. **[A Compositional Semantics of Temporal Expressions in English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hinrichs-1987-compositional-semantics-temporal-expressions-english/)**Erhard W. Hinrichs*our summary*
3. **[A Lazy way to Chart-Parse with Categorial Grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P87-1012/)**Remo Pareschi, Mark Steedman
4. **[A Logical Version of Functional Grammar ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P87-1013/)**William C. Rounds, Alexis Manaster-Ramer
5. **[A Model For Generating Better Explanations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P87-1030/)**Peter van Beek
6. **[A Unification Method for Disjunctive Feature Descriptions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P87-1033/)**Robert T. Kasper
7. **[An Attribute-Grammar Implementation of Government-binding Theory ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P87-1007/)**Nelson Correa
8. **[An Environment for Acquiring Semantic Information ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P87-1005/)**Damaris M. Ayuso, Varda Shaked, Ralph M. Weischedel
9. **[Characterizing Structural Descriptions Produced by Various Grammatical Formalisms](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shanker-1987-characterizing-structural-descriptions-produced-various/)**K. Vijay-Shanker, David J. Weir, Aravind K. Joshi*our summary*
10. **[Constituent-Based Morphological Parsing: A New Approach to the Problem of Word-Recognition. ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P87-1010/)**Richard Sproat, Barbara Brunson
11. **[Constraints on the Generation of Adjunct Clauses ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P87-1029/)**Alison K. Huettner, Marie M. Vaughan, David D. McDonald
12. **[Context-Freeness of the Language Accepted by Marcus' Parser ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P87-1017/)**R Nozohoor-Farshi
13. **[Expressing Concern ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P87-1031/)**Marc Luria
14. **[FLUSH: A Flexible Lexicon Design ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P87-1026/)**David J. Besemer, Paul S. Jacobs
15. **[Functional Unification Grammar Revisited ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P87-1014/)**Kathleen R. McKeown, Cecile L. Paris
16. **[Getting Idioms Into a Lexicon Based Parser's Head ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P87-1008/)**Oliviero Stock
17. **[Grammatical and Ungrammatical Structures in User-Adviser Dialogues: Evidence for Sufficiency of Restricted Languages in Natural Language Interfaces to Advisory Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P87-1006/)**Raymonde Guindon, Kelly Shuldberg, Joyce Conner
18. **[Incorporating Inheritance and Feature Structures Into a Logic Grammar Formalism ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P87-1032/)**Harry H. Porter
19. **[JETR: A Robust Machine Translation System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P87-1004/)**Rika Yoshii
20. **[Lexical Selection in the Process of Language Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P87-1028/)**James Pustejovsky, Sergei Nirenburg
21. **[Nominalizations in PUNDIT ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P87-1019/)**Deborah A. Dahl, Martha S. Palmer, Rebecca J. Passonneau
22. **[Now Let's Talk About Now; Identifying Cue Phrases Intonationally ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P87-1023/)**Julia Hirschberg, Diane Litman
23. **[On the Acquisition of Lexical Entries: The Perceptual Origin of Thematic Relations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P87-1024/)**James Pustejovsky
24. **[On the Succinctness Properties of Unordered Context-Free Grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P87-1016/)**M. Drew Moshier, William C. Rounds
25. **[Phrasal Analysis of Long Noun Sequences ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P87-1009/)**Yigal Arens, John J. Granacki, Alice C. Parker

[See all 34 papers in ACL 1987 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1987/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (4)

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

1. **[A Centering Approach to Pronouns](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/brennan-1987-centering-approach-pronouns/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Susan E. Brennan, Marilyn W. Friedman, Carl J. Pollard*1987 · 641 citations*
2. **[Characterizing Structural Descriptions Produced by Various Grammatical Formalisms](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shanker-1987-characterizing-structural-descriptions-produced-various/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**K. Vijay-Shanker, David J. Weir, Aravind K. Joshi*1987 · 354 citations*
3. [**The Derivation of a Grammatically Indexed Lexicon from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English**Bran Boguraev, Ted Briscoe, John Carroll, et al.*1987 · 84 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/boguraev-1987-derivation-grammatically-indexed-lexicon-longman/)
4. [**A Compositional Semantics of Temporal Expressions in English**Erhard W. Hinrichs*1987 · 17 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hinrichs-1987-compositional-semantics-temporal-expressions-english/)

## Top topics

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

[English (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Syntax & grammar formalisms (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/)

## Top authors

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

[🧑‍🔬**Susan E. Brennan**1 work here · 641 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/susan-e-brennan/) · [🧑‍🔬**Aravind Joshi**1 work here · 354 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aravind-joshi/) · [🧑‍🔬**David Weir**1 work here · 354 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-weir/) · [🧑‍🔬**K. Vijay-Shanker**1 work here · 354 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/k-vijay-shanker/) · [🧑‍🔬**Claire Grover**1 work here · 84 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claire-grover/) · [🧑‍🔬**David Carter**1 work here · 84 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-carter/) · [🧑‍🔬**John Carroll**1 work here · 84 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-carroll/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ted Briscoe**1 work here · 84 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ted-briscoe/) · [🧑‍🔬**Erhard Hinrichs**1 work here · 17 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/erhard-hinrichs/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) · [🎓**Lancaster University** Lancaster · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/lancaster-university/) · [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/)

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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