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# ACL 1999 — accepted papers

ACL 1999 is the 1999 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), held in College Park, Maryland, USA, June 1999 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 83 papers of it; our library holds 15 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**83** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**15** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1999/#works) · [**5,180** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1999/#works)**College Park, Maryland, USA** where it was held**June 1999** when

## All accepted papers (83)

The most cited first; 15 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Bag of Useful Techniques for Efficient and Robust Parsing](https://aclanthology.org/P99-1061/)**Bernd Kiefer, Hans-Ulrich Krieger, John Carroll et al.
2. **[A Decision-Based Approach to Rhetorical Parsing](https://aclanthology.org/P99-1047/)**Daniel Marcu
3. **[A Knowledge-free Method for Capitalized Word Disambiguation](https://aclanthology.org/P99-1021/)**Andrei Mikheev
4. **[A Meta-Level Grammar: Redefining Synchronous TAG for Translation and Paraphrase](https://aclanthology.org/P99-1011/)**Mark Dras
5. **[A Method for Word Sense Disambiguation of Unrestricted Text](https://aclanthology.org/P99-1020/)**Rada Mihalcea, Dan I. Moldovan
6. **[A Part of Speech Estimation Method for Japanese Unknown Words using a Statistical Model of Morphology and Context](https://aclanthology.org/P99-1036/)**Masaaki Nagata
7. **[A Pylonic Decision-Tree Language Model- with Optimal Question Selection](https://aclanthology.org/P99-1080/)**Adrian Corduneanu
8. **[A Second-Order Hidden Markov Model for Part-of-Speech Tagging](https://aclanthology.org/P99-1023/)**Scott M. Thede, Mary P. Harper
9. **[A Selectionist Theory of Language Acquisition](https://aclanthology.org/P99-1055/)**Charles D. Yang
10. **[A Statistical Parser for Czech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/collins-1999-statistical-parser-czech/)**Michael Collins, Jan Hajic, Lance Ramshaw et al.*our summary*
11. **[A Syntactic Framework for Speech Repairs and Other Disruptions](https://aclanthology.org/P99-1053/)**Mark G. Core, Lenhart K. Schubert
12. **[A Unification-based Approach to Morpho-syntactic Parsing of Agglutinative and Other (Highly) Inflectional Languages](https://aclanthology.org/P99-1034/)**Gabor Proszeky, Balazs Kis
13. **[A flexible distributed architecture for NLP system development and use](https://aclanthology.org/P99-1082/)**Freddy Y. Y. Choi
14. **[A semantically-derived subset of English for hardware verification](https://aclanthology.org/P99-1058/)**Alexander Holt, Ewan Klein
15. **[Acquiring Lexical Generalizations from Corpora: A Case Study for Diathesis Alternations](https://aclanthology.org/P99-1051/)**Maria Lapata
16. **[Alternating Quantifier Scope in CCG](https://aclanthology.org/P99-1039/)**Mark Steedman
17. **[An Earley-style Predictive Chart Parsing Method for Lambek Grammars](https://aclanthology.org/P99-1060/)**Mark Hepple
18. **[An Efficient Statistical Speech Act Type Tagging System for Speech Translation Systems](https://aclanthology.org/P99-1049/)**Hideki Tanaka, Akio Yokoo
19. **[An Unsupervised Model for Statistically Determining Coordinate Phrase Attachment](https://aclanthology.org/P99-1081/)**Miriam Goldberg
20. **[Analysis System of Speech Acts and Discourse Structures Using Maximum Entropy Model](https://aclanthology.org/P99-1030/)**Won Seug Choi, Jeong-Mi Cho, Jungyun Seo
21. **[Analysis of Syntax-Based Pronoun Resolution Methods](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tetreault-1999-analysis-syntax-based-pronoun-resolution/)**Joel R. Tetreault*our summary*
22. **[Automatic Compensation for Parser Figure-of-Merit Flaws](https://aclanthology.org/P99-1066/)**Don Blaheta, Eugene Charniak
23. **[Automatic Detection of Poor Speech Recognition at the Dialogue Level](https://aclanthology.org/P99-1040/)**Diane J. Litman, Marilyn A. Walker, Michael S. Kearns
24. **[Automatic Identification of Non-compositional Phrases](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lin-1999-automatic-identification-non-compositional-phrases/)**Dekang Lin*our summary*
25. **[Automatic Identification of Word Translations from Unrelated English and German Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rapp-1999-automatic-identification-word-translations-unrelated/)**Reinhard Rapp*our summary*

[See all 83 papers in ACL 1999 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1999/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (15)

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

1. **[Automatic Identification of Word Translations from Unrelated English and German Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rapp-1999-automatic-identification-word-translations-unrelated/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Reinhard Rapp*1999 · 660 citations*
2. **[Measures of Distributional Similarity](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lee-1999-measures-distributional-similarity/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Lillian Lee*1999 · 654 citations*
3. **[Development and Use of a Gold-Standard Data Set for Subjectivity Classifications](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wiebe-1999-development-use-gold-standard-data/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Janyce M. Wiebe, Rebecca F. Bruce, Thomas P. O'Hara*1999 · 568 citations*
4. **[Finding Parts in Very Large Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/berland-1999-finding-parts-very-large-corpora/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Matthew Berland, Eugene Charniak*1999 · 561 citations*
5. **[Information Fusion in the Context of Multi-Document Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barzilay-1999-information-fusion-context-multi-document/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Regina Barzilay, Kathleen R. McKeown, Michael Elhadad*1999 · 477 citations*
6. **[Automatic construction of a hypernym-labeled noun hierarchy from text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/caraballo-1999-automatic-construction-hypernym-labeled-noun/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Sharon A. Caraballo*1999 · 443 citations*
7. **[Mining the Web for Bilingual Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/resnik-1999-mining-web-bilingual-text/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Philip Resnik*1999 · 315 citations*
8. **[Automatic Identification of Non-compositional Phrases](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lin-1999-automatic-identification-non-compositional-phrases/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Dekang Lin*1999 · 288 citations*
9. **[A Statistical Parser for Czech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/collins-1999-statistical-parser-czech/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Michael Collins, Jan Hajic, Lance Ramshaw, et al.*1999 · 280 citations*
10. **[Efficient Parsing for Bilexical Context-Free Grammars and Head Automaton Grammars](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/eisner-1999-efficient-parsing-bilexical-context-free/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Jason Eisner, Giorgio Satta*1999 · 248 citations*
11. **[Estimators for Stochastic “Unification-Based” Grammars](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/johnson-1999-estimators-stochastic-unification-based-grammars/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Mark Johnson, Stuart Geman, Stephen Canon, et al.*1999 · 244 citations*
12. **[Inducing a Semantically Annotated Lexicon via EM-Based Clustering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rooth-1999-inducing-semantically-annotated-lexicon-em/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Mats Rooth, Stefan Riezler, Detlef Prescher, et al.*1999 · 223 citations*
13. **[Corpus-Based Identification of Non-Anaphoric Noun Phrases](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bean-1999-corpus-based-identification-non-anaphoric/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**David L. Bean, Ellen Riloff*1999 · 89 citations*
14. [**Discourse Relations: A Structural and Presuppositional Account Using Lexicalised TAG**Bonnie Webber, Alistair Knott, Matthew Stone, et al.*1999 · 70 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/webber-1999-discourse-relations-structural-presuppositional-account/)
15. **[Analysis of Syntax-Based Pronoun Resolution Methods](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tetreault-1999-analysis-syntax-based-pronoun-resolution/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Joel R. Tetreault*1999 · 60 citations*

## Top topics

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

[Syntax & grammar formalisms (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/) · [Coreference resolution (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [English (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Discourse analysis (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Implicature (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/implicature/) · [Summarization (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Lexical semantics & word embeddings (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/lexical-semantics/) · [Idioms & multiword expressions (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (14)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (14)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/) · [Decision Sciences (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Mathematics (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) · [Psychology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Social Sciences (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/)

## Top authors

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

[🧑‍🔬**Stefan Riezler**2 works here · 467 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stefan-riezler/) · [🧑‍🔬**Reinhard Rapp**1 work here · 660 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/reinhard-rapp/) · [🧑‍🔬**Lillian Lee**1 work here · 654 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lillian-lee/) · [🧑‍🔬**Janyce Wiebe**1 work here · 568 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/janyce-wiebe/) · [🧑‍🔬**Rebecca Bruce**1 work here · 568 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rebecca-bruce/) · [🧑‍🔬**Eugene Charniak**1 work here · 561 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eugene-charniak/) · [🧑‍🔬**Kathleen McKeown**1 work here · 477 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kathleen-mckeown/) · [🧑‍🔬**Michael Elhadad**1 work here · 477 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-elhadad/) · [🧑‍🔬**Regina Barzilay**1 work here · 477 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/regina-barzilay/) · [🧑‍🔬**Philip Resnik**1 work here · 315 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/philip-resnik/) · [🧑‍🔬**Dekang Lin**1 work here · 288 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dekang-lin/) · [🧑‍🔬**Christoph Tillmann**1 work here · 280 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christoph-tillmann/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**Brown University** Providence · United States 3 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/brown-university/) · [🎓**University of Stuttgart** Stuttgart · Germany 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-stuttgart/) · [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) · [🎓**New Mexico State University** Las Cruces · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-mexico-state-university/) · [🎓**Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey** New Brunswick · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/rutgers-the-state-university-of-new-jersey/) · [🎓**Ben-Gurion University of the Negev** Beersheba · Israel 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ben-gurion-university-of-the-negev/) · [🏢**AT&T** Bedminster · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/at-t/) · [🎓**University of Padua** Padua · Italy 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-padua/) · [🎓**Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz** Mainz · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johannes-gutenberg-university-mainz/) · [🎓**Cornell University** Ithaca · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/cornell-university/) · [🎓**Charles University** Prague · Czechia 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/charles-university/) · [🎓**University of Utah** Salt Lake City · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-utah/)

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