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# EMNLP Workshop BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP 2018 — accepted papers

EMNLP Workshop BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP 2018 is the 2018 edition of the EMNLP Workshop BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, held in Brussels, Belgium, November 2018 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). OpenAlex lists 56 papers of it; our library holds 3 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Brussels, [Belgium](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/belgium/) · 🗓 November 2018

[**56** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**3** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp-workshop-blackboxnlp-analyzing-and-interpreting-neural-networks-for-nlp/2018/#works) · [**7,694** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp-workshop-blackboxnlp-analyzing-and-interpreting-neural-networks-for-nlp/2018/#works)

## Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. **[GLUE: A Multi-Task Benchmark and Analysis Platform for Natural Language Understanding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2018-glue-multi-task-benchmark-analysis/)**Alex Wang, Amanpreet Singh, Julian Michael et al.*4,074 citations · our summary*
2. **[An Analysis of Encoder Representations in Transformer-Based Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/raganato-2018-analysis-encoder-representations-transformer-based/)**Alessandro Raganato, Jörg Tiedemann*265 citations · our summary*
3. **[Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks for Text Classification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5408/)**Alon Jacovi, Oren Sar Shalom, Yoav Goldberg*226 citations*
4. **[On the Role of Text Preprocessing in Neural Network Architectures: An Evaluation Study on Text Categorization and Sentiment Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5406/)**Jose Camacho-Collados, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar*164 citations*
5. **[What do RNN Language Models Learn about Filler–Gap Dependencies?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wilcox-2018-rnn-language-models-learn-about/)**Ethan Wilcox, Roger Levy, Takashi Morita et al.*154 citations · our summary*
6. **[Language Modeling Teaches You More than Translation Does: Lessons Learned Through Auxiliary Syntactic Task Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5448/)**Kelly Zhang, Samuel R. Bowman*112 citations*
7. **[Rearranging the Familiar: Testing Compositional Generalization in Recurrent Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/loula-2018-rearranging-familiar-testing-compositional-generalization/)**João Loula, Marco Baroni, Brenden Lake*106 citations · our summary*
8. **[Importance of Self-Attention for Sentiment Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5429/)**Gaël Letarte, Frédérik Paradis, Philippe Giguère et al.*67 citations*
9. **[Interpreting Neural Networks with Nearest Neighbors ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5416/)**Eric Wallace, Shi Feng, Jordan Boyd-Graber*64 citations*
10. **[Do Language Models Understand Anything? On the Ability of LSTMs to Understand Negative Polarity Items ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5424/)**Jaap Jumelet, Dieuwke Hupkes*61 citations*

## All accepted papers (56)

The most cited first; 3 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[GLUE: A Multi-Task Benchmark and Analysis Platform for Natural Language Understanding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2018-glue-multi-task-benchmark-analysis/)**Alex Wang, Amanpreet Singh, Julian Michael et al.*4,074 citations · our summary*
2. **[An Analysis of Encoder Representations in Transformer-Based Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/raganato-2018-analysis-encoder-representations-transformer-based/)**Alessandro Raganato, Jörg Tiedemann*265 citations · our summary*
3. **[Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks for Text Classification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5408/)**Alon Jacovi, Oren Sar Shalom, Yoav Goldberg*226 citations*
4. **[On the Role of Text Preprocessing in Neural Network Architectures: An Evaluation Study on Text Categorization and Sentiment Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5406/)**Jose Camacho-Collados, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar*164 citations*
5. **[What do RNN Language Models Learn about Filler–Gap Dependencies?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wilcox-2018-rnn-language-models-learn-about/)**Ethan Wilcox, Roger Levy, Takashi Morita et al.*154 citations · our summary*
6. **[Language Modeling Teaches You More than Translation Does: Lessons Learned Through Auxiliary Syntactic Task Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5448/)**Kelly Zhang, Samuel R. Bowman*112 citations*
7. **[Rearranging the Familiar: Testing Compositional Generalization in Recurrent Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/loula-2018-rearranging-familiar-testing-compositional-generalization/)**João Loula, Marco Baroni, Brenden Lake*106 citations · our summary*
8. **[Importance of Self-Attention for Sentiment Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5429/)**Gaël Letarte, Frédérik Paradis, Philippe Giguère et al.*67 citations*
9. **[Interpreting Neural Networks with Nearest Neighbors ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5416/)**Eric Wallace, Shi Feng, Jordan Boyd-Graber*64 citations*
10. **[Do Language Models Understand Anything? On the Ability of LSTMs to Understand Negative Polarity Items ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5424/)**Jaap Jumelet, Dieuwke Hupkes*61 citations*
11. **[Evaluating the Ability of LSTMs to Learn Context-Free Grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5414/)**Luzi Sennhauser, Robert Berwick*51 citations*
12. **[An Operation Sequence Model for Explainable Neural Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5420/)**Felix Stahlberg, Danielle Saunders, Bill Byrne*47 citations*
13. **[Collecting Diverse Natural Language Inference Problems for Sentence Representation Evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5441/)**Adam Poliak, Aparajita Haldar, Rachel Rudinger et al.*42 citations*
14. **[Can LSTM Learn to Capture Agreement? The Case of Basque ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5412/)**Shauli Ravfogel, Yoav Goldberg, Francis Tyers*38 citations*
15. **[Firearms and Tigers are Dangerous, Kitchen Knives and Zebras are Not: Testing whether Word Embeddings Can Tell ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5430/)**Pia Sommerauer, Antske Fokkens*33 citations*
16. **[Does Syntactic Knowledge in Multilingual Language Models Transfer Across Languages? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5453/)**Prajit Dhar, Arianna Bisazza*31 citations*
17. **[Extracting Syntactic Trees from Transformer Encoder Self-Attentions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5444/)**David Mareček, Rudolf Rosa*31 citations*
18. **[Context-Free Transductions with Neural Stacks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5433/)**Yiding Hao, William Merrill, Dana Angluin et al.*25 citations*
19. **[Closing Brackets with Recurrent Neural Networks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5425/)**Natalia Skachkova, Thomas Trost, Dietrich Klakow*24 citations*
20. **[Interpretable Neural Architectures for Attributing an Ad's Performance to its Writing Style ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5415/)**Reid Pryzant, Sugato Basu, Kazoo Sone*22 citations*
21. **[LISA: Explaining Recurrent Neural Network Judgments via Layer-wIse Semantic Accumulation and Example to Pattern Transformation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5418/)**Pankaj Gupta, Hinrich Schütze*22 citations*
22. **[Analyzing Learned Representations of a Deep ASR Performance Prediction Model ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5402/)**Zied Elloumi, Laurent Besacier, Olivier Galibert et al.*21 citations*
23. **[Interpretable Textual Neuron Representations for NLP ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5437/)**Nina Poerner, Benjamin Roth, Hinrich Schütze*21 citations*
24. **[Predicting and interpreting embeddings for out of vocabulary words in downstream tasks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5439/)**Nicolas Garneau, Jean-Samuel Leboeuf, Luc Lamontagne*21 citations*
25. **[Grammar Induction with Neural Language Models: An Unusual Replication ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5452/)**Phu Mon Htut, Kyunghyun Cho, Samuel R. Bowman*17 citations*

[See all 56 papers in EMNLP Workshop BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP 2018 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp-workshop-blackboxnlp-analyzing-and-interpreting-neural-networks-for-nlp/2018/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (3)

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

1. **[GLUE: A Multi-Task Benchmark and Analysis Platform for Natural Language Understanding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2018-glue-multi-task-benchmark-analysis/) [EMNLP Workshop BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp-workshop-blackboxnlp-analyzing-and-interpreting-neural-networks-for-nlp/)**Alex Wang, Amanpreet Singh, Julian Michael, et al.*2018 · 7,169 citations*
2. **[An Analysis of Encoder Representations in Transformer-Based Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/raganato-2018-analysis-encoder-representations-transformer-based/) [EMNLP Workshop BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp-workshop-blackboxnlp-analyzing-and-interpreting-neural-networks-for-nlp/)**Alessandro Raganato, Jörg Tiedemann*2018 · 368 citations*
3. **[Rearranging the Familiar: Testing Compositional Generalization in Recurrent Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/loula-2018-rearranging-familiar-testing-compositional-generalization/) [EMNLP Workshop BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp-workshop-blackboxnlp-analyzing-and-interpreting-neural-networks-for-nlp/)**João Loula, Marco Baroni, Brenden Lake*2018 · 157 citations*

## Top topics

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

[Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (3)](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.

[🧑‍🔬**Alex Wang**1 work here · 7,169 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alex-wang/) · [🧑‍🔬**Amanpreet Singh**1 work here · 7,169 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amanpreet-singh/) · [🧑‍🔬**Felix Hill**1 work here · 7,169 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/felix-hill/) · [🧑‍🔬**Julian Michael**1 work here · 7,169 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julian-michael/) · [🧑‍🔬**Omer Levy**1 work here · 7,169 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omer-levy/) · [🧑‍🔬**Samuel R. Bowman**1 work here · 7,169 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samuel-r-bowman/) · [🧑‍🔬**Alessandro Raganato**1 work here · 368 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alessandro-raganato/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jörg Tiedemann**1 work here · 368 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jorg-tiedemann/) · [🧑‍🔬**Marco Baroni**1 work here · 157 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marco-baroni/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**New York University** New York · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university/) · [🎓**University of Helsinki** Helsinki · Finland 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-helsinki/) · [🎓**École Polytechnique** Palaiseau · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ecole-polytechnique/) · [🎓**University of Washington** Seattle · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) · [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) · [🏢**Meta** Menlo Park · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/meta/)

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