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# ACL 1998 — accepted papers

ACL 1998 is the 1998 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 1998 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 250 papers of it; our library holds 10 with our summaries. Below: its awards, the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**250** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**10** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1998/#works) · [**7,897** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1998/#works)**Montreal, Quebec, Canada** where it was held**August 1998** when

## Awards

As the ACL Anthology records them.

1. **[Generation that Exploits Corpus-Based Statistical Knowledge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/langkilde-1998-generation-that-exploits-corpus-based/)**Irene Langkilde, Kevin Knight · 🏆 ACL 25-Year Test of Time Paper Award*our summary*

## All accepted papers (250)

The most cited first; 10 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Cognitive Model of Coherence-Driven Story Comprehension ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P98-2249/)**Elliot Smith
2. **[A Computational Model of Social Perlocutions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P98-2168/)**David Pautler, Alex Quilici
3. **[A Concept-based Adaptive Approach to Word Sense Disambiguation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P98-1037/)**Jen Nan Chen, Jason S. Chang
4. **[A Concurrent Approach to the Automatic Extraction of Subsegmental Primes and Phonological Constituents from Speech ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P98-1094/)**Michael Ingleby, Wiebke Brockhaus
5. **[A Connectionist Approach to Prepositional Phrase Attachment for Real World Texts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P98-2201/)**Josep M. Sopena, Agusti LLoberas, Joan L. Moliner
6. **[A Connectionist Architecture for Learning to Parse ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P98-1087/)**James Henderson, Peter Lane
7. **[A DP based Search Algorithm for Statistical Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P98-2158/)**S. Nießen, S. Vogel, H. Ney et al.
8. **[A Descriptive Characterization of Tree-Adjoining Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P98-2183/)**James Rogers
9. **[A Flexible Example-Based Parser Based on the SSTC ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P98-1113/)**Mosleh Hmoud Al-Adhaileh, Enya Kong Tang
10. **[A Framework for Customizable Generation of Hypertext Presentations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P98-1118/)**Benoit Lavoie, Owen Rambow
11. **[A Freely Available Morphological Analyzer, Disambiguator and Context Sensitive Lemmatizer for German ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P98-2123/)**Wolfgang Lezius, Reinhard Rapp, Manfred Wettler
12. **[A Generative Lexicon Perspective for Adjectival Modification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P98-2187/)**Patrick Saint-Dizier
13. **[A Layered Approach to NLP-Based Information Retrieval ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P98-1066/)**Sharon Flank
14. **[A Memory-Based Approach to Learning Shallow Natural Language Patterns ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P98-1010/)**Shlomo Argamon, Ido Dagan, Yuval Krymolowski
15. **[A Method for Correcting Errors in Speech Recognition using the Statistical Features of Character Co-occurrence ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P98-1107/)**Satoshi Kaki, Eiichiro Sumita, Hitoshi Iida
16. **[A Method for Relating Multiple Newspaper Articles by Using Graphs, and Its Application to Webcasting ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P98-2213/)**Naohiko Uramoto, Koichi Takeda
17. **[A Model for Robust Processing of Spontaneous Speech by Integrating Viable Fragments ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P98-2229/)**Karsten L. Worm
18. **[A Multi-Neuro Tagger Using Variable Lengths of Contexts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P98-2131/)**Susann LuperFoy, Dan Loehr, David Duff et al.
19. **[A Pattern-based Machine Translation System Extended by Example-based Processing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P98-2223/)**Hideo Watanabe, Koichi Takeda
20. **[A Preliminary Model of Centering in Dialog ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P98-2241/)**Donna Byron, Amanda Stent
21. **[A Probabilistic Corpus-Driven Model for Lexical-Functional Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P98-1022/)**Rens Bod, Ronald Kaplan
22. **[A Procedure for Multi-Class Discrimination and some Linguistic Applications ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P98-2170/)**Vladimir Pericliev, Raul E. Valdes-Perez
23. **[A Quasi-Dependency Model for the Structural Analysis of Chinese BaseNPs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P98-1001/)**Jun Zhao, Changning Huang
24. **[A Simple Hybrid Aligner for Generating Lexical Correspondences in Parallel Texts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P98-1004/)**Lars Ahrenberg, Mikael Andersson, Magnus Merkel
25. **[A Statistical Analysis of Morphemes in Japanese Terminology ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P98-1104/)**Kyo Kageura

[See all 250 papers in ACL 1998 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1998/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (10)

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

1. [**The Berkeley FrameNet Project**Collin F. Baker, Charles J. Fillmore, John B. Lowe*1998 · 3,551 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/baker-1998-berkeley-framenet/)
2. **[Automatic Retrieval and Clustering of Similar Words](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lin-1998-automatic-retrieval-clustering-similar-words/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Dekang Lin*1998 · 2,062 citations*
3. **[Entity-Based Cross-Document Coreferencing Using the Vector Space Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bagga-1998-entity-based-cross-document-coreferencing/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Amit Bagga, Breck Baldwin*1998 · 699 citations*
4. **[Generation that Exploits Corpus-Based Statistical Knowledge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/langkilde-1998-generation-that-exploits-corpus-based/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Irene Langkilde, Kevin Knight*1998 · 524 citations*
5. **[An IR Approach for Translating New Words from Nonparallel, Comparable Texts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/fung-1998-ir-approach-translating-new-words/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Pascale Fung, Lo Yuen Yee*1998 · 442 citations*
6. **[Robust Pronoun Resolution with Limited Knowledge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mitkov-1998-robust-pronoun-resolution-limited-knowledge/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Ruslan Mitkov*1998 · 357 citations*
7. **[Dialogue Act Tagging with Transformation-Based Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/samuel-1998-dialogue-act-tagging-transformation-based/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Ken Samuel, Sandra Carberry, K. Vijay-Shanker*1998 · 129 citations*
8. **[DiMLex: A Lexicon of Discourse Markers for Text Generation and Understanding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stede-1998-dimlex-lexicon-discourse-markers-text/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Manfred Stede, Carla Umbach*1998 · 84 citations*
9. **[Evaluating a Focus-Based Approach to Anaphora Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/azzam-1998-evaluating-focus-based-approach-anaphora/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Saliha Azzam, Kevin Humphreys, Robert Gaizauskas*1998 · 41 citations*
10. [**Syntactic and Semantic Transfer with F-Structures**Michael Dorna, Anette Frank, Josef van Genabith, et al.*1998 · 8 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dorna-1998-syntactic-semantic-transfer-f-structures/)

## Top topics

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

[Coreference resolution (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Discourse analysis (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Speech act theory (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [Semantic role labeling (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/) · [Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Text generation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) · [Dialogue systems (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Semantic parsing & meaning representation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/) · [English (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (10)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (10)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Decision Sciences (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/)

## Top authors

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

[🧑‍🔬**Charles J. Fillmore**1 work here · 3,551 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/charles-j-fillmore/) · [🧑‍🔬**Collin F. Baker**1 work here · 3,551 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/collin-f-baker/) · [🧑‍🔬**John B. Lowe**1 work here · 3,551 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-b-lowe/) · [🧑‍🔬**Dekang Lin**1 work here · 2,062 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dekang-lin/) · [🧑‍🔬**Amit Bagga**1 work here · 699 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amit-bagga/) · [🧑‍🔬**Breck Baldwin**1 work here · 699 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/breck-baldwin/) · [🧑‍🔬**Kevin Knight**1 work here · 524 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-knight/) · [🧑‍🔬**Pascale Fung**1 work here · 442 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pascale-fung/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ruslan Mitkov**1 work here · 357 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruslan-mitkov/) · [🧑‍🔬**K. Vijay-Shanker**1 work here · 129 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/k-vijay-shanker/) · [🧑‍🔬**Sandra Carberry**1 work here · 129 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sandra-carberry/) · [🧑‍🔬**Manfred Stede**1 work here · 84 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manfred-stede/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**University of Stuttgart** Stuttgart · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-stuttgart/) · [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🎓**University of Wolverhampton** Wolverhampton · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-wolverhampton/) · [🔬**International Computer Science Institute** Berkeley · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/international-computer-science-institute/) · [🎓**Duke University** Durham · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/duke-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/) · [🎓**Dublin City University** Dublin · Ireland 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/dublin-city-university/) · [🎓**Technische Universität Berlin** Berlin · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/technische-universitat-berlin/) · [🎓**University of Manitoba** Winnipeg · Canada 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-manitoba/) · [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) · [🎓**University of Delaware** Newark · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-delaware/) · [🎓**University of Sheffield** Sheffield · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-sheffield/)

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