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# ACL 1991 — accepted papers

ACL 1991 is the 1991 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), held in Berkeley, California, USA, June 1991 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 56 papers of it; our library holds 5 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Berkeley, California, [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) · 🗓 June 1991

[**56** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**5** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1991/#works) · [**1,581** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1991/#works)

## All accepted papers (56)

The most cited first; 5 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Preference-first Language Processor: Integrating the Unification Grammar and Markov Language Model for Speech Recognition Applications ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P91-1038/)**Lee-Feng Chien, K. J. Chen, Lin-Shan Lee
2. **[A Program for Aligning Sentences in Bilingual Corpora ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P91-1023/)**William A. Gale, Kenneth W. Church
3. **[A Stochastic Process for Word Frequency Distributions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P91-1035/)**Harald Baayen
4. **[A System for Translating Locative Prepositions From English Into French ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P91-1020/)**Nathalie Japkowicz, Janyce M. Wiebe
5. **[A Three-Level Model for Plan Exploration ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P91-1006/)**Lance A. Ramshaw
6. **[A Tripartite Plan-Based Model of Dialogue ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P91-1007/)**Lynn Lambert, Sandra Carberry
7. **[Action representation for NL instructions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P91-1044/)**Barbara Di Eugenio
8. **[Aligning Sentences in Parallel Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/brown-1991-aligning-sentences-parallel-corpora/)**Peter F. Brown, Jennifer C. Lai, Robert L. Mercer*our summary*
9. **[An Algorithm for Plan Recognition in Collaborative Discourse ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P91-1005/)**Karen E. Lochbaum
10. **[An Incremental Connectionist Phrase Structure Parser ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P91-1056/)**James Henderson
11. **[Automatic Acquisition of Subcategorization Frames From Untagged Text ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P91-1027/)**Michael R. Brent
12. **[Automatic Noun Classification by Using Japanese-English Word Pairs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P91-1026/)**Naomi Inoue
13. **[Case Revisited: in the Shadow of Automatic Processing of Machine-Readable Dictionaries ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P91-1046/)**Fuliang Weng
14. **[Collaborating on Referring Expressions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P91-1050/)**Peter A. Heeman
15. **[Compose-Reduce Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P91-1012/)**Henry S. Thompson, Mike Dixon, John Lamping
16. **[Conceptual Revision for Natural Language Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P91-1051/)**Ben E. Cline
17. **[Constraint Projection: An Efficient Treatment of Disjunctive Feature Descriptions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P91-1040/)**Mikio Nakano
18. **[Current Research in the Development of a Spoken Language Understanding System using PARSEC ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P91-1054/)**Carla B. Zoltowski
19. **[Discourse Relations and Defeasible Knowledge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lascarides-1991-discourse-relations-defeasible-knowledge/)**Alex Lascarides, Nicholas Asher*our summary*
20. **[Discovering the Lexical Features of a Language ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P91-1047/)**Eric Brill
21. **[Efficient Incremental Processing With Categorial Grammar ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P91-1011/)**Mark Hepple
22. **[Event-building through Role-filling and Anaphora Resolution ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P91-1003/)**Greg Whittemore, Melissa Macpherson, Greg Carlson
23. **[Experiments and Prospects of Example-Based Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P91-1024/)**Eiichiro Sumita, Hitoshi Iida
24. **[Extracting Semantic Roles from a Model of Eventualities ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P91-1045/)**Sylvie Ratté
25. **[Factorization of Language Constraints in Speech Recognition ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P91-1039/)**Roberto Pieraccini, Chin-Hui Lee

[See all 56 papers in ACL 1991 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1991/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (5)

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

1. **[Aligning Sentences in Parallel Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/brown-1991-aligning-sentences-parallel-corpora/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Peter F. Brown, Jennifer C. Lai, Robert L. Mercer*1991 · 657 citations*
2. **[Word-Sense Disambiguation Using Statistical Methods](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/brown-1991-word-sense-disambiguation-statistical-methods/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Peter F. Brown, Stephen A. Della Pietra, Vincent J. Della Pietra, et al.*1991 · 464 citations*
3. **[Two Languages Are More Informative Than One](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dagan-1991-two-languages-are-more-informative/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Ido Dagan, Alon Itai, Ulrike Schwall*1991 · 229 citations*
4. **[Discourse Relations and Defeasible Knowledge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lascarides-1991-discourse-relations-defeasible-knowledge/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Alex Lascarides, Nicholas Asher*1991 · 177 citations*
5. [**Translation by Quasi Logical Form Transfer**Hiyan Alshawi, David Carter, Manny Rayner, et al.*1991 · 54 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alshawi-1991-translation-quasi-logical-form-transfer/)

## Top topics

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

[Discourse analysis (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Word sense disambiguation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/) · [Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Semantic parsing & meaning representation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/) · [French (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/french/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (5)](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.

[🧑‍🔬**Peter F. Brown**2 works here · 1,121 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-f-brown/) · [🧑‍🔬**Robert L. Mercer**2 works here · 1,121 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-l-mercer/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jennifer C. Lai**1 work here · 657 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jennifer-c-lai/) · [🧑‍🔬**Stephen A. Della Pietra**1 work here · 464 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-a-della-pietra/) · [🧑‍🔬**Vincent J. Della Pietra**1 work here · 464 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vincent-j-della-pietra/) · [🧑‍🔬**Alon Itai**1 work here · 229 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alon-itai/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ido Dagan**1 work here · 229 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ido-dagan/) · [🧑‍🔬**Alex Lascarides**1 work here · 177 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alex-lascarides/) · [🧑‍🔬**Nicholas Asher**1 work here · 177 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicholas-asher/) · [🧑‍🔬**Bjorn Gamback**1 work here · 54 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bjorn-gamback/) · [🧑‍🔬**David Carter**1 work here · 54 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-carter/) · [🧑‍🔬**Hiyan Alshawi**1 work here · 54 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hiyan-alshawi/)

## Top institutions

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

[🔬**IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center** Yorktown Heights · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-thomas-j-watson-research-center/) · [🔬**SRI International** Menlo Park · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/sri-international/) · [🎓**Technion – Israel Institute of Technology** Haifa · Israel 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/technion-israel-institute-of-technology/) · [🤝**Swedish Institute of Computer Science** Kista · Sweden 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/ngos/swedish-institute-of-computer-science/) · [🎓**The University of Texas at Austin** Austin · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-texas-at-austin/) · [🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/)

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