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# ACL 1996 — accepted papers

ACL 1996 is the 1996 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), held in Santa Cruz, California, USA, June 1996 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 58 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.

[**58** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**4** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1996/#works) · [**2,113** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1996/#works)**Santa Cruz, California, USA** where it was held**June 1996** when

## All accepted papers (58)

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

1. **[A Fully Statistical Approach to Natural Language Interfaces ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P96-1008/)**Scott Miller, David Stallard, Robert Bobrow et al.
2. **[A Model-Theoretic Framework for Theories of Syntax ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P96-1002/)**James Rogers
3. **[A New Statistical Parser Based on Bigram Lexical Dependencies ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P96-1025/)**Michael John Collins
4. **[A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-1996-polynomial-time-algorithm-statistical-machine/)**Dekai Wu*our summary*
5. **[A Prosodic Analysis of Discourse Segments in Direction-Giving Monologues ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P96-1038/)**Julia Hirschberg, Christine H. Nakatani
6. **[A Robust System for Natural Spoken Dialogue ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P96-1009/)**James F. Allen, Bradford W. Miller, Eric K. Ringger et al.
7. **[A Synopsis of Learning to Recognize Names Across Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P96-1050/)**Anthony F. Gallippi
8. **[An Application of WordNet to Prepositional Attachment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P96-1051/)**Sanda M. Harabagiu
9. **[An Efficient Compiler for Weighted Rewrite Rules ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P96-1031/)**Mehryar Mohri, Richard Sproat
10. **[An Empirical Study of Smoothing Techniques for Language Modeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-1996-empirical-study-smoothing-techniques-language/)**Stanley F. Chen, Joshua Goodman*our summary*
11. **[An Information Structural Approach To Spoken Language Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P96-1039/)**Scott Prevost
12. **[An Iterative Algorithm to Build Chinese Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P96-1019/)**Xiaoqiang Luo, Salim Roukos
13. **[Another Facet of LIG Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P96-1012/)**Pierre Boullier
14. **[Chart Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kay-1996-chart-generation/)**Martin Kay*our summary*
15. **[Combining Trigram-Based and Feature-Based Methods for Context-Sensitive Spelling Correction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P96-1010/)**Andrew Golding, Yves Schabes
16. **[Compilation of Weighted Finite-State Transducers from Decision Trees ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P96-1029/)**Richard Sproat, Michael Riley
17. **[Computing Optimal Descriptions for Optimality Theory Grammars with Context-Free Position Structures ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P96-1014/)**Bruce Tesar
18. **[Coordination as a Direct Process ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P96-1017/)**Augusta Mela, Christophe Fouqueré
19. **[Directed Replacement ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P96-1015/)**Lauri Karttunen
20. **[Efficient Normal-Form Parsing for Combinatory Categorial Grammar ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P96-1011/)**Jason Eisner
21. **[Efficient Tabular LR Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P96-1032/)**Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta
22. **[Efficient Transformation-Based Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P96-1034/)**Giorgio Satta, Eric Brill
23. **[Evaluating the Portability of Revision Rules for Incremental Summary Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P96-1028/)**Jacques Robin
24. **[Fast Parsing Using Pruning and Grammar Specialization ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P96-1030/)**Manny Rayner, David Carter
25. **[From Submit to Submitted via Submission: On Lexical Rules in Large-Scale Lexicon Acquisition ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P96-1005/)**Evelyne Viegas, Boyan Onyshkevych, Victor Raskin et al.

[See all 58 papers in ACL 1996 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1996/papers/)

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

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

1. **[An Empirical Study of Smoothing Techniques for Language Modeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-1996-empirical-study-smoothing-techniques-language/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Stanley F. Chen, Joshua Goodman*1996 · 1,217 citations*
2. **[Integrating Multiple Knowledge Sources to Disambiguate Word Sense: An Exemplar-Based Approach](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ng-1996-integrating-multiple-knowledge-sources-disambiguate/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Hwee Tou Ng, Hian Beng Lee*1996 · 505 citations*
3. **[A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-1996-polynomial-time-algorithm-statistical-machine/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Dekai Wu*1996 · 223 citations*
4. [**Chart Generation**Martin Kay*1996 · 168 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kay-1996-chart-generation/)

## Top topics

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

[Machine translation (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Word sense disambiguation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/) · [Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/)

## 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.

[🧑‍🔬**Stanley F. Chen**1 work here · 1,217 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stanley-f-chen/) · [🧑‍🔬**Hwee Tou Ng**1 work here · 505 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hwee-tou-ng/) · [🧑‍🔬**Dekai Wu**1 work here · 223 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dekai-wu/) · [🧑‍🔬**Martin Kay**1 work here · 168 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martin-kay/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**Harvard University** Cambridge · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-university/) · [🎓**Hong Kong University of Science and Technology** Hong Kong · China 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/)

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

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