--- title: "ACL 1997 — accepted papers — Elamur Research" description: "ACL 1997 — accepted papers: 4 papers in the Elamur Research library (Madrid, Spain), with our summaries, ranked by citations." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1997/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1997/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/) / [ACL](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) / 1997 # ACL 1997 — accepted papers ACL 1997 is the 1997 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), held in Madrid, Spain, July 1997 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 73 papers of it; our library holds 4 with our summaries. Below: its awards, the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions. [**73** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**4** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1997/#works) · [**2,163** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1997/#works)**Madrid, Spain** where it was held**July 1997** when ## Awards As the ACL Anthology records them. 1. **[Machine Transliteration](https://aclanthology.org/P97-1017/)**Kevin Knight, Jonathan Graehl · 🏆 ACL 2022 25-Year Test of Time 2. **[Three Generative, Lexicalised Models for Statistical Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/collins-1997-three-generative-lexicalised-models-statistical/)**Michael Collins · 🏆 ACL 2022 25-Year Test of Time*our summary* ## All accepted papers (73) The most cited first; 4 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original. 1. **[A Comparison of Head Transducers and Transfer for a Limited Domain Translation Application](https://aclanthology.org/P97-1046/)**Hiyan Alshawi, Adam L. Buchsbaum, Fei Xia 2. **[A DOP Model for Semantic Interpretation](https://aclanthology.org/P97-1021/)**Remko Bonnema, Rens Bod, Remko Scha 3. **[A DP-based Search Using Monotone Alignments in Statistical Translation](https://aclanthology.org/P97-1037/)**Christoph Tillmann, Stephan Vogel, Hermann Ney et al. 4. **[A Flexible POS Tagger Using an Automatically Acquired Language Model](https://aclanthology.org/P97-1031/)**Lluis Marquez, Lluis Padro 5. **[A Model of Lexical Attraction and Repulsion](https://aclanthology.org/P97-1048/)**Doug Beeferman, Adam Berger, John Lafferty 6. **[A Portable Algorithm for Mapping Bitext Correspondence](https://aclanthology.org/P97-1039/)**I. Dan Melamed 7. **[A Structured Language Model](https://aclanthology.org/P97-1064/)**Ciprian Chelba 8. **[A Theory of Parallelism and the Case of VP Ellipsis](https://aclanthology.org/P97-1051/)**Jerry R. Hobbs, Andrew Kehler 9. **[A Trainable Rule-Based Algorithm for Word Segmentation](https://aclanthology.org/P97-1041/)**David D. Palmer 10. **[A Uniform Approach to Underspecification and Parallelism](https://aclanthology.org/P97-1053/)**Joachim Niehren, Manfred Pinkal, Peter Ruhrberg 11. **[A Word-to-Word Model of Translational Equivalence](https://aclanthology.org/P97-1063/)**I. Dan Melamed 12. **[Ambiguity Resolution for Machine Translation of Telegraphic Messages](https://aclanthology.org/P97-1016/)**Young-Suk Lee, Clifford Weinstein, Stephanie Seneff et al. 13. **[An Algorithm for Generating Referential Descriptions with Flexible Interfaces](https://aclanthology.org/P97-1027/)**Helmut Horacek 14. **[An Alignment Method for Noisy Parallel Corpora based on Image Processing Techniques](https://aclanthology.org/P97-1038/)**Jason S. Chang, Mathis H. Chen 15. **[Applying Explanation-based Learning to Control and Speeding-up Natural Language Generation](https://aclanthology.org/P97-1028/)**Gunter Neumann 16. **[Approximating Context-Free Grammars with a Finite-State Calculus](https://aclanthology.org/P97-1058/)**Edmund Grimley Evans 17. **[Automatic Detection of Text Genre](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kessler-1997-automatic-detection-text-genre/)**Brett Kessler, Geoffrey Nunberg, Hinrich Schutze*our summary* 18. **[Automatic Extraction of Aspectual Information from a Monolingual Corpus](https://aclanthology.org/P97-1045/)**Akira Oishi, Yuji Matsumoto 19. **[Centering in-the-Large: Computing Referential Discourse Segments](https://aclanthology.org/P97-1014/)**Udo Hahn, Michael Strube 20. **[Choosing the Word Most Typical in Context Using a Lexical Co-occurrence Network](https://aclanthology.org/P97-1067/)**Philip Edmonds 21. **[Co-Evolution of Language and of the Language Acquisition Device](https://aclanthology.org/P97-1054/)**Ted Briscoe 22. **[Combining Unsupervised Lexical Knowledge Methods for Word Sense Disambiguation](https://aclanthology.org/P97-1007/)**German Rigau, Jordi Atserias, Eneko Agirre 23. **[Comparing a Linguistic and a Stochastic Tagger](https://aclanthology.org/P97-1032/)**Christer Samuelsson, Atro Voutilainen 24. **[Compiling Regular Formalisms with Rule Features into Finite-State Automata](https://aclanthology.org/P97-1042/)**George Anton Kiraz 25. **[Compositional Semantics of German Prefix Verbs](https://aclanthology.org/P97-1073/)**Maria Wolters [See all 73 papers in ACL 1997 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1997/papers/) ## Papers with our summary in our library (4) The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's). 1. **[Three Generative, Lexicalised Models for Statistical Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/collins-1997-three-generative-lexicalised-models-statistical/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Michael Collins*1997 · 1,046 citations* 2. **[PARADISE: A Framework for Evaluating Spoken Dialogue Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/walker-1997-paradise-framework-evaluating-spoken-dialogue/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Marilyn A. Walker, Diane J. Litman, Candace A. Kamm, et al.*1997 · 660 citations* 3. **[Automatic Detection of Text Genre](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kessler-1997-automatic-detection-text-genre/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Brett Kessler, Geoffrey Nunberg, Hinrich Schutze*1997 · 424 citations* 4. **[Towards resolution of bridging descriptions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vieira-1997-resolution-bridging-descriptions/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Renata Vieira, Simone Teufel*1997 · 33 citations* ## Top topics Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. [Coreference resolution (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Dialogue systems (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) ## 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. [🧑‍🔬**Michael Collins**1 work here · 1,046 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-collins/) · [🧑‍🔬**Diane Litman**1 work here · 660 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diane-litman/) · [🧑‍🔬**Marilyn Walker**1 work here · 660 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marilyn-walker/) · [🧑‍🔬**Hinrich Schütze**1 work here · 424 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hinrich-schutze/) · [🧑‍🔬**Renata Vieira**1 work here · 33 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/renata-vieira/) · [🧑‍🔬**Simone Teufel**1 work here · 33 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simone-teufel/) ## Top institutions Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works. [🏢**AT&T** Bedminster · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/at-t/) · [🔬**Palo Alto Research Center** Palo Alto · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/palo-alto-research-center/) · [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) · [🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library. - [← previous ACL 1996](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1996/) - [next → ACL 1998](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1998/) - [↑ back to ACL](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)