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# COLING 1988 — accepted papers

COLING 1988 is the 1988 edition of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) (publisher: International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL)). The ACL Anthology lists 168 papers of it; our library holds 6 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**168** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**6** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/1988/#works) · [**512** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/1988/#works)

## All accepted papers (168)

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

1. **[A Binding Rule for Government-binding Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C88-1026/)**Nelson Correa
2. **[A Cognitive Account of Unbounded Dependency ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C88-1047/)**Koiti Hasida
3. **[A Computational Approach to Topic and Focus in a Production Model ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C88-2109/)**Vincenza Pignataro
4. **[A Computer Readability Formula of Japanese Texts for Machine Scoring ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C88-2135/)**Yuka Tateisi, Yoshihiko Ono, Hisao Yamada
5. **[A Constructive View of GPSG or How to Make It Work ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C88-1017/)**Stephan Busemann, Christa Hauenschild
6. **[A Cooperative Yes-No Query System Featuring Discourse Particles ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C88-2116/)**Kjell Johan Saebø
7. **[A Distributed Multi-Agent Architecture for Natural Language Processing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C88-2165/)**Danilo Fum, Giovanni Guida, Carlo Tasso
8. **[A Finite State Approach to German Verb Morphology ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C88-1043/)**Gunther Gorz, Dietrich Paulus
9. **[A Formal Computational Semantics and Pragmatics of Speech Acts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C88-2152/)**Eric Werner
10. **[A Framework for Lexical Selection in Natural Language Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C88-2100/)**Sergei Nirenburg, Irene Nirenburg
11. **[A Model for Transfer Control in the METAL MT-System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C88-1004/)**Yuan A. Alonso
12. **[A New Design of Prolog-Based Bottom-Up Parsing System With Government-Binding Theory ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C88-1024/)**Hsin-Hsi Chen, I-Peng Lin, Chien-Ping Wu
13. **[A New Strategy for Providing Definitions In Task-Oriented Dialogues ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C88-2119/)**Margaret H. Sarner, Sandra Carberry
14. **[A News Analysis System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C88-1072/)**Robert J. Kuhns
15. **[A Novel Analysis of Temporal Frame-Adverbials ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C88-2087/)**Magnus Merkel
16. **[A Parser based on Connectionist Model ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C88-2097/)**Hiroshi Nakagawa, Tatsunori Mori
17. **[A Process-Activation Based Parsing Algorithm for the Development of Natural Language Grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C88-1080/)**Massimo Marino
18. **[A Statistical Approach to Language Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/brown-1988-statistical-approach-language-translation/)**P. Brown, J. Cocke, S. Della Pietra et al.*our summary*
19. **[A Syntactic Description of German in a Formalism Designed for Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C88-2123/)**Paul Schmidt
20. **[A System for Creating and Manipulating Generalized Wordclass Transition Matrices From Large Labelled Text-Corpora ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C88-1011/)**Wilfried Bloemberg, Michael Kesselheim
21. **[A Uniform Architecture for Parsing and Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C88-2128/)**Stuart M. Shieber
22. **[A new formal tool: Functorial variables representing assertions and presuppositions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C88-1083/)**Ingolf Max
23. **[Achieving Bidirectionality ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C88-1054/)**Paul S. Jacobs
24. **[Acquisition of Semantic Information From an On-Line Dictionary ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C88-1019/)**Nicoletta Calzolari, Eugenio Picchi
25. **[An Active Bilingual Lexicon for Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C88-1042/)**Igal Golan, Shalom Lappin, Mori Rimon

[See all 168 papers in COLING 1988 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/1988/papers/)

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

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

1. **[A Statistical Approach to Language Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/brown-1988-statistical-approach-language-translation/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**P. Brown, J. Cocke, S. Della Pietra, et al.*1988 · 339 citations*
2. **[Parsing Strategies with ‘Lexicalized' Grammars: Application to Tree Adjoining Grammars](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schabes-1988-parsing-strategies-lexicalized-grammars-application/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Yves Schabes, Anne Abeille, Aravind K. Joshi*1988 · 81 citations*
3. **[Anaphora Resolution: A Multi-Strategy Approach](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/carbonell-1988-anaphora-resolution-multi-strategy-approach/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Jaime G. Carbonell, Ralf D. Brown*1988 · 38 citations*
4. **[Identifying Zero Pronouns in Japanese Dialogue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yoshimoto-1988-identifying-zero-pronouns-japanese-dialogue/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Kei Yoshimoto*1988 · 35 citations*
5. [**Machine Translation Using Isomorphic UCGs**John L. Beaven, Pete Whitelock*1988 · 14 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/beaven-1988-machine-translation-isomorphic-ucgs/)
6. [**Finite-state Description of Semitic Morphology: A Case Study of Ancient Accadian**Laura Kataja, Kimmo Koskenniemi*1988 · 5 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kataja-1988-finite-state-description-semitic-morphology/)

## Top topics

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

[Machine translation (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [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/) · [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/) · [French (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/french/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (5)](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.

[🧑‍🔬**Anne Abeillé**1 work here · 81 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anne-abeille/) · [🧑‍🔬**Aravind Joshi**1 work here · 81 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aravind-joshi/) · [🧑‍🔬**Yves Schabes**1 work here · 81 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yves-schabes/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jaime G. Carbonell**1 work here · 38 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jaime-g-carbonell/) · [🧑‍🔬**Pete Whitelock**1 work here · 14 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pete-whitelock/)

## Top institutions

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

[🔬**Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International** Kyoto · Japan 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/advanced-telecommunications-research-institute-international/) · [🔬**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/) · [🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/)

works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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