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# ACL 2002 — accepted papers

ACL 2002 is the 2002 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, July 2002 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 65 papers of it; our library holds 16 with our summaries. Below: its awards, the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**65** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**16** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2002/#works) · [**41,956** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2002/#works)**Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA** where it was held**July 2002** when

## Awards

As the ACL Anthology records them.

1. **[Bleu: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/papineni-2002-bleu-method-automatic-evaluation-machine/)**Kishore Papineni, Salim Roukos, Todd Ward et al. · 🏆 NAACL 2018 Test-of-Time*our summary*
2. **[Discriminative Training and Maximum Entropy Models for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/och-2002-discriminative-training-maximum-entropy-models/)**Franz Josef Och, Hermann Ney · 🏆 Best Paper*our summary*

## All accepted papers (65)

The most cited first; 16 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Decoder for Syntax-based Statistical MT ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P02-1039/)**Kenji Yamada, Kevin Knight
2. **[A Generative Constituent-Context Model for Improved Grammar Induction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/klein-2002-generative-constituent-context-model-improved/)**Dan Klein, Christopher D. Manning*our summary*
3. **[A Multilingual Paradigm for Automatic Verb Classification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P02-1027/)**Paola Merlo, Suzanne Stevenson, Vivian Tsang et al.
4. **[A Noisy-Channel Model for Document Compression ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P02-1057/)**Hal Daume III, Daniel Marcu
5. **[A Simple Pattern-matching Algorithm for Recovering Empty Nodes and their Antecedents ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P02-1018/)**Mark Johnson
6. **[A Study on Richer Syntactic Dependencies for Structured Language Modeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P02-1025/)**Peng Xu, Ciprian Chelba, Frederick Jelinek
7. **[Active Learning for Statistical Natural Language Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P02-1016/)**Min Tang, Xiaoqiang Luo, Salim Roukos
8. **[An Empirical Study of Active Learning with Support Vector Machines forJapanese Word Segmentation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P02-1064/)**Manabu Sassano
9. **[An Integrated Archictecture for Shallow and Deep Processing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P02-1056/)**Berthold Crysmann, Anette Frank, Bernd Kiefer et al.
10. **[An Unsupervised Approach to Recognizing Discourse Relations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marcu-2002-unsupervised-approach-recognizing-discourse-relations/)**Daniel Marcu, Abdessamad Echihabi*our summary*
11. **[An Unsupervised Method for Word Sense Tagging using Parallel Corpora ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P02-1033/)**Mona Diab, Philip Resnik
12. **[Applying Co-Training to Reference Resolution ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P02-1045/)**Christoph Mueller, Stefan Rapp, Michael Strube
13. **[Bleu: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/papineni-2002-bleu-method-automatic-evaluation-machine/)**Kishore Papineni, Salim Roukos, Todd Ward et al. · 🏆 NAACL 2018 Test-of-Time*our summary*
14. **[Bootstrapping ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P02-1046/)**Steven Abney
15. **[Building Deep Dependency Structures using a Wide-Coverage CCG Parser ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P02-1042/)**Stephen Clark, Julia Hockenmaier, Mark Steedman
16. **[Coupling CCG and Hybrid Logic Dependency Semantics ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P02-1041/)**Jason Baldridge, Geert-Jan Kruijff
17. **[Discriminative Training and Maximum Entropy Models for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/och-2002-discriminative-training-maximum-entropy-models/)**Franz Josef Och, Hermann Ney · 🏆 Best Paper*our summary*
18. **[Dynamic programming for parsing and estimation of stochastic unification-based grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P02-1036/)**Stuart Geman, Mark Johnson
19. **[Ellipsis Resolution with Underspecified Scope ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P02-1010/)**Michael Schiehlen
20. **[Entropy Rate Constancy in Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/genzel-2002-entropy-rate-constancy-text/)**Dmitriy Genzel, Eugene Charniak*our summary*
21. **[Evaluating Translational Correspondence using Annotation Projection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P02-1050/)**Rebecca Hwa, Philip Resnik, Amy Weinberg et al.
22. **[Exploring Asymmetric Clustering for Statistical Language Modeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P02-1024/)**Jianfeng Gao, Joshua Goodman, Guihong Cao et al.
23. **[From Single to Multi-document Summarization ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P02-1058/)**Chin-Yew Lin, Eduard Hovy
24. **[GATE: an Architecture for Development of Robust HLT applications ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P02-1022/)**Hamish Cunningham, Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva et al.
25. **[Generalized Encoding of Description Spaces and its Application to Typed Feature Structures ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P02-1009/)**Gerald Penn

[See all 65 papers in ACL 2002 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2002/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (16)

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

1. [**Bleu: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation**Kishore Papineni, Salim Roukos, Todd Ward, et al.*2002 · 32,134 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/papineni-2002-bleu-method-automatic-evaluation-machine/)
2. **[Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Semantic Orientation Applied to Unsupervised Classification of Reviews](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/turney-2002-thumbs-up-or-thumbs-down/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Peter Turney*2002 · 2,831 citations*
3. **[Discriminative Training and Maximum Entropy Models for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/och-2002-discriminative-training-maximum-entropy-models/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Franz Josef Och, Hermann Ney*2002 · 1,461 citations*
4. **[Learning surface text patterns for a Question Answering System](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ravichandran-2002-learning-surface-text-patterns-question/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Deepak Ravichandran, Eduard Hovy*2002 · 972 citations*
5. **[Improving Machine Learning Approaches to Coreference Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ng-2002-improving-machine-learning-approaches-coreference/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Vincent Ng, Claire Cardie*2002 · 923 citations*
6. **[Named Entity Recognition using an HMM-based Chunk Tagger](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2002-named-entity-recognition-hmm-based/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**GuoDong Zhou, Jian Su*2002 · 796 citations*
7. **[An Unsupervised Approach to Recognizing Discourse Relations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marcu-2002-unsupervised-approach-recognizing-discourse-relations/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Daniel Marcu, Abdessamad Echihabi*2002 · 514 citations*
8. **[Parsing the Wall Street Journal using a Lexical-Functional Grammar and Discriminative Estimation Techniques](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/riezler-2002-parsing-wall-street-journal-lexical/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Stefan Riezler, Tracy H. King, Ronald M. Kaplan, et al.*2002 · 396 citations*
9. **[A Generative Constituent-Context Model for Improved Grammar Induction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/klein-2002-generative-constituent-context-model-improved/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Dan Klein, Christopher D. Manning*2002 · 345 citations*
10. **[The Necessity of Parsing for Predicate Argument Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gildea-2002-necessity-parsing-predicate-argument-recognition/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Daniel Gildea, Martha Palmer*2002 · 293 citations*
11. **[Translating Named Entities Using Monolingual and Bilingual Resources](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/onaizan-2002-translating-named-entities-monolingual-bilingual/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Yaser Al-Onaizan, Kevin Knight*2002 · 288 citations*
12. **[Generative Models for Statistical Parsing with Combinatory Categorial Grammar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hockenmaier-2002-generative-models-statistical-parsing-combinatory/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Julia Hockenmaier, Mark Steedman*2002 · 272 citations*
13. **[Pronunciation Modeling for Improved Spelling Correction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/toutanova-2002-pronunciation-modeling-improved-spelling-correction/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Kristina Toutanova, Robert Moore*2002 · 252 citations*
14. **[Entropy Rate Constancy in Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/genzel-2002-entropy-rate-constancy-text/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Dmitriy Genzel, Eugene Charniak*2002 · 235 citations*
15. **[Parameter Estimation for Probabilistic Finite-State Transducers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/eisner-2002-parameter-estimation-probabilistic-finite-state/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Jason Eisner*2002 · 224 citations*
16. [**Machine-learned contexts for linguistic operations in German sentence realization**Michael Gamon, Eric Ringger, Simon Corston-Oliver, et al.*2002 · 20 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gamon-2002-machine-learned-contexts-linguistic-operations/)

## Top topics

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

[Machine translation (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Syntax & grammar formalisms (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/) · [Named entity recognition (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Discourse analysis (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Coreference resolution (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Semantic role labeling (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/) · [Question answering (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Grammatical error correction & learner language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/grammatical-error-correction/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (16)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (16)](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.

[🧑‍🔬**Robert Moore**2 works here · 272 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-moore/) · [🧑‍🔬**Salim Roukos**1 work here · 32,134 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/salim-roukos/) · [🧑‍🔬**Peter Turney**1 work here · 2,831 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-turney/) · [🧑‍🔬**Franz Josef Och**1 work here · 1,461 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/franz-josef-och/) · [🧑‍🔬**Hermann Ney**1 work here · 1,461 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hermann-ney/) · [🧑‍🔬**Deepak Ravichandran**1 work here · 972 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deepak-ravichandran/) · [🧑‍🔬**Eduard Hovy**1 work here · 972 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eduard-hovy/) · [🧑‍🔬**Claire Cardie**1 work here · 923 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claire-cardie/) · [🧑‍🔬**Vincent Ng**1 work here · 923 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vincent-ng/) · [🧑‍🔬**Guodong Zhou**1 work here · 796 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guodong-zhou/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jian Su**1 work here · 796 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-su/) · [🧑‍🔬**Abdessamad Echihabi**1 work here · 514 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdessamad-echihabi/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 3 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🎓**Brown University** Providence · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/brown-university/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🏢**IBM** Armonk · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🔬**Palo Alto Research Center** Palo Alto · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/palo-alto-research-center/) · [🎓**Cornell University** Ithaca · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/cornell-university/) · [🔬**IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center** Yorktown Heights · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-thomas-j-watson-research-center/) · [🏛️**National Research Council Canada** Ottawa · Canada 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/national-research-council-canada/) · [🎓**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/)

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