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# ACL 2000 — accepted papers

ACL 2000 is the 2000 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), held in Hong Kong, October 2000 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 79 papers of it; our library holds 6 with our summaries. Below: its awards, the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**79** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**6** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2000/#works) · [**2,611** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2000/#works)**Hong Kong** where it was held**October 2000** when

## Awards

As the ACL Anthology records them.

1. **[Automatic Labeling of Semantic Roles ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P00-1065/)**Daniel Gildea, Daniel Jurafsky · 🏆 ACL 2025 Test of Time Award

## All accepted papers (79)

The most cited first; 6 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Computational Approach to Zero-pronouns in Spanish ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P00-1022/)**Antonio Ferrández, Jesús Peral
2. **[A Constraint-based Approach to English Prosodic Constituents ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P00-1028/)**Ewan Klein
3. **[A Hierarchical Account of Referential Accessibility ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P00-1053/)**Nancy Ide, Dan Cristea
4. **[A Maximum Entropy/Minimum Divergence Translation Model ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P00-1006/)**George Foster
5. **[A Morphologically Sensitive Clustering Algorithm for Identifying Arabic Roots](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/roeck-2000-morphologically-sensitive-clustering-algorithm-identifying/)**Anne N. De Roeck, Waleed Al-Fares*our summary*
6. **[A New Statistical Approach To Chinese Pinyin Input ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P00-1031/)**Zheng Chen, Kai-Fu Lee
7. **[A Polynomial-Time Fragment of Dominance Constraints ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P00-1047/)**Alexander Koller, Kurt Mehlhorn, Joachim Niehren
8. **[A Unified Statistical Model for the Identification of English BaseNP ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P00-1015/)**Endong Xun, Changning Huang, Ming Zhou
9. **[An Algorithm for One-page Summarization of a Long Text Based on Thematic Hierarchy Detection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P00-1039/)**Yoshio Nakao
10. **[An Empirical Study of the Influence of Argument Conciseness on Argument Effectiveness ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P00-1020/)**Giuseppe Carenini, Johanna D. Moore
11. **[An Improved Error Model for Noisy Channel Spelling Correction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/brill-2000-improved-error-model-noisy-channel/)**Eric Brill, Robert C. Moore*our summary*
12. **[An Improved Parser for Data-Oriented Lexical-Functional Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P00-1009/)**Rens Bod
13. **[An Information-Theory-Based Feature Type Analysis for the Modeling of Statistical Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P00-1060/)**Zhifang Sui, Jun Zhao, Dekai Wu
14. **[An Unsupervised Approach to Prepositional Phrase Attachment using Contextually Similar Words](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pantel-2000-unsupervised-approach-prepositional-phrase-attachment/)**Patrick Pantel, Dekang Lin*our summary*
15. **[Automatic Detecting/Correcting Errors in Chinese Text by an Approximate Word-Matching Algorithm ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P00-1032/)**Lei Zhang, Ming Zhou, Changning Huang et al.
16. **[Automatic Labeling of Semantic Roles ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P00-1065/)**Daniel Gildea, Daniel Jurafsky · 🏆 ACL 2025 Test of Time Award
17. **[Can Nominal Expressions Achieve Multiple Goals?: An Empirical Study ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P00-1019/)**Pamela Jordan
18. **[Chinese-Korean Word Alignment Based on Linguistic Comparison ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P00-1050/)**Jin-Xia Huang, Key-Sun Choi
19. **[Coreference for NLP Applications ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P00-1023/)**Thomas S. Morton
20. **[Corpus-Based Lexical Choice in Natural Language Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P00-1059/)**Srinivas Bangalore, Owen Rambow
21. **[Dependency-based Syntactic Analysis of Chinese and Annotation of Parsed Corpus ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P00-1033/)**Tom B.Y. Lai, Changning Huang
22. **[Diagnostic Processing of Japanese for Computer-Assisted Second Language Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P00-1068/)**Jun'ichi Kakegawa, Hisayuki Kanda, Eitaro Fujioka et al.
23. **[Difficulty Indices for the Named Entity Task in Japanese ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P00-1044/)**Chikashi Nobata, Satoshi Sekine, Jun'ichi Tsujii
24. **[Dimension-Reduced Estimation of Word Co-occurrence Probability ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P00-1072/)**Kilyoun Kim, Key-Sun Choi
25. **[Distributing Representation for Robust Interpretation of Dialogue Utterances ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P00-1018/)**David Milward

[See all 79 papers in ACL 2000 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2000/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (6)

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

1. **[Improved Statistical Alignment Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/och-2000-improved-statistical-alignment-models/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Franz Josef Och, Hermann Ney*2000 · 1,467 citations*
2. **[An Improved Error Model for Noisy Channel Spelling Correction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/brill-2000-improved-error-model-noisy-channel/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Eric Brill, Robert C. Moore*2000 · 661 citations*
3. **[Statistical Parsing with an Automatically-Extracted Tree Adjoining Grammar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chiang-2000-statistical-parsing-automatically-extracted-tree/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**David Chiang*2000 · 228 citations*
4. [**An Unsupervised Approach to Prepositional Phrase Attachment using Contextually Similar Words**Patrick Pantel, Dekang Lin*2000 · 103 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pantel-2000-unsupervised-approach-prepositional-phrase-attachment/)
5. [**A Morphologically Sensitive Clustering Algorithm for Identifying Arabic Roots**Anne N. De Roeck, Waleed Al-Fares*2000 · 78 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/roeck-2000-morphologically-sensitive-clustering-algorithm-identifying/)
6. **[Importance of Pronominal Anaphora Resolution in Question Answering Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vicedo-2000-importance-pronominal-anaphora-resolution-question/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**José L. Vicedo, Antonio Ferrández*2000 · 74 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/) · [Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Question answering (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Morphology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Semitic languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Syntax & grammar formalisms (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/) · [Grammatical error correction & learner language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/grammatical-error-correction/) · [English (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (6)](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.

[🧑‍🔬**Franz Josef Och**1 work here · 1,467 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/franz-josef-och/) · [🧑‍🔬**Hermann Ney**1 work here · 1,467 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hermann-ney/) · [🧑‍🔬**Eric Brill**1 work here · 661 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-brill/) · [🧑‍🔬**Robert C. Moore**1 work here · 661 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-c-moore/) · [🧑‍🔬**David Chiang**1 work here · 228 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-chiang/) · [🧑‍🔬**Dekang Lin**1 work here · 103 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dekang-lin/) · [🧑‍🔬**Patrick Pantel**1 work here · 103 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/patrick-pantel/) · [🧑‍🔬**Anne De Roeck**1 work here · 78 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anne-de-roeck/) · [🧑‍🔬**Antonio Ferrandez**1 work here · 74 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/antonio-ferrandez/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**University of Essex** Colchester · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-essex/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🎓**University of Alicante** Alicante · Spain 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-alicante/) · [🎓**University of Alberta** Edmonton · Canada 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-alberta/) · [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) · [🎓**RWTH Aachen University** Aachen · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/rwth-aachen-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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