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# NAACL 2016: all accepted papers

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1. **[“Why Should I Trust You?”: Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-3020/)**Marco Ribeiro, Sameer Singh, Carlos Guestrin · Demonstrations*5,419 citations*
2. **[Hierarchical Attention Networks for Document Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2016-hierarchical-attention-networks-document-classification/)**Zichao Yang, Diyi Yang, Chris Dyer et al.*4,712 citations · our summary*
3. **[Neural Architectures for Named Entity Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lample-2016-neural-architectures-named-entity-recognition/)**Guillaume Lample, Miguel Ballesteros, Sandeep Subramanian et al.*4,271 citations · our summary*
4. **[A Diversity-Promoting Objective Function for Neural Conversation Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2016-diversity-promoting-objective-function-neural/)**Jiwei Li, Michel Galley, Chris Brockett et al.*1,926 citations · our summary*
5. **[Abstractive Sentence Summarization with Attentive Recurrent Neural Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chopra-2016-abstractive-sentence-summarization-attentive-recurrent/)**Sumit Chopra, Michael Auli, Alexander M. Rush*881 citations · our summary*
6. **[Joint Event Extraction via Recurrent Neural Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nguyen-2016-joint-event-extraction-recurrent-neural/)**Thien Huu Nguyen, Kyunghyun Cho, Ralph Grishman*647 citations · our summary*
7. **[Visualizing and Understanding Neural Models in NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2016-visualizing-understanding-neural-models-nlp/)**Jiwei Li, Xinlei Chen, Eduard Hovy et al.*625 citations · our summary*
8. **[A Corpus and Cloze Evaluation for Deeper Understanding of Commonsense Stories ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1098/)**Nasrin Mostafazadeh, Nathanael Chambers, Xiaodong He et al.*589 citations*
9. **[Multi-Way, Multilingual Neural Machine Translation with a Shared Attention Mechanism](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/firat-2016-multi-way-multilingual-neural-machine/)**Orhan Firat, Kyunghyun Cho, Yoshua Bengio*562 citations · our summary*
10. **[Learning Distributed Representations of Sentences from Unlabelled Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hill-2016-learning-distributed-representations-sentences-unlabelled/)**Felix Hill, Kyunghyun Cho, Anna Korhonen*560 citations · our summary*
11. **[Recurrent Neural Network Grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1024/)**Chris Dyer, Adhiguna Kuncoro, Miguel Ballesteros et al.*504 citations*
12. **[Learning to Compose Neural Networks for Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/andreas-2016-learning-compose-neural-networks-question/)**Jacob Andreas, Marcus Rohrbach, Trevor Darrell et al.*446 citations · our summary*
13. **[Sequential Short-Text Classification with Recurrent and Convolutional Neural Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lee-2016-sequential-short-text-classification-recurrent/)**Ji Young Lee, Franck Dernoncourt*434 citations · our summary*
14. **[Learning Natural Language Inference with LSTM](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2016-learning-natural-language-inference-lstm/)**Shuohang Wang, Jing Jiang*408 citations · our summary*
15. **[Farasa: A Fast and Furious Segmenter for Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abdelali-2016-farasa-fast-furious-segmenter-arabic/)**Ahmed Abdelali, Kareem Darwish, Nadir Durrani et al. · Demonstrations*371 citations · our summary*
16. **[Counter-fitting Word Vectors to Linguistic Constraints ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1018/)**Nikola Mrkšić, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Blaise Thomson et al.*354 citations*
17. **[Emergent: a novel data-set for stance classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ferreira-2016-emergent-novel-data-set-stance/)**William Ferreira, Andreas Vlachos*348 citations · our summary*
18. **[Bidirectional RNN for Medical Event Detection in Electronic Health Records ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1056/)**Abhyuday N Jagannatha, Hong Yu*304 citations*
19. **[Multi-Source Neural Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zoph-2016-multi-source-neural-translation/)**Barret Zoph, Kevin Knight*300 citations · our summary*
20. **[Controlling Politeness in Neural Machine Translation via Side Constraints](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sennrich-2016-controlling-politeness-neural-machine-translation/)**Rico Sennrich, Barry Haddow, Alexandra Birch*268 citations · our summary*
21. **[What to talk about and how? Selective Generation using LSTMs with Coarse-to-Fine Alignment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mei-2016-what-talk-about-how-selective/)**Hongyuan Mei, Mohit Bansal, Matthew R. Walter*237 citations · our summary*
22. **[Pairwise Word Interaction Modeling with Deep Neural Networks for Semantic Similarity Measurement](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/he-2016-pairwise-word-interaction-modeling-deep/)**Hua He, Jimmy Lin*232 citations · our summary*
23. **[Grammatical error correction using neural machine translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1042/)**Zheng Yuan, Ted Briscoe*221 citations*
24. **[Joint Extraction of Events and Entities within a Document Context](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2016-joint-extraction-events-entities-within/)**Bishan Yang, Tom M. Mitchell*220 citations · our summary*
25. **[Black Holes and White Rabbits: Metaphor Identification with Visual Features](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shutova-2016-black-holes-white-rabbits-metaphor/)**Ekaterina Shutova, Douwe Kiela, Jean Maillard*218 citations · our summary*
26. **[Visual Storytelling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/huang-2016-visual-storytelling/)**Ting-Hao Kenneth Huang, Francis Ferraro, Nasrin Mostafazadeh et al.*218 citations · our summary*
27. **[MAWPS: A Math Word Problem Repository ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1136/)**Rik Koncel-Kedziorski, Subhro Roy, Aida Amini et al.*215 citations*
28. **[Multilingual Language Processing From Bytes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gillick-2016-multilingual-language-processing-bytes/)**Dan Gillick, Cliff Brunk, Oriol Vinyals et al.*208 citations · our summary*
29. **[Combining Recurrent and Convolutional Neural Networks for Relation Classification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1065/)**Ngoc Thang Vu, Heike Adel, Pankaj Gupta et al.*190 citations*
30. **[Capturing Semantic Similarity for Entity Linking with Convolutional Neural Networks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1150/)**Matthew Francis-Landau, Greg Durrett, Dan Klein*175 citations*
31. **[Learning Global Features for Coreference Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wiseman-2016-learning-global-features-coreference-resolution/)**Sam Wiseman, Alexander M. Rush, Stuart M. Shieber*172 citations · our summary*
32. **[Multi-domain Neural Network Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wen-2016-multi-domain-neural-network-language/)**Tsung-Hsien Wen, Milica Gašić, Nikola Mrkšić et al.*167 citations · our summary*
33. **[Incorporating Structural Alignment Biases into an Attentional Neural Translation Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cohn-2016-incorporating-structural-alignment-biases-into/)**Trevor Cohn, Cong Duy Vu Hoang, Ekaterina Vymolova et al.*161 citations · our summary*
34. **[Building Chinese Affective Resources in Valence-Arousal Dimensions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1066/)**Liang-Chih Yu, Lung-Hao Lee, Shuai Hao et al.*152 citations*
35. **[An Attentional Model for Speech Translation Without Transcription ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1109/)**Long Duong, Antonios Anastasopoulos, David Chiang et al.*147 citations*
36. **[Fast and Easy Short Answer Grading with High Accuracy ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1123/)**Md Arafat Sultan, Cristobal Salazar, Tamara Sumner*143 citations*
37. **[Feuding Families and Former Friends: Unsupervised Learning for Dynamic Fictional Relationships ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1180/)**Mohit Iyyer, Anupam Guha, Snigdha Chaturvedi et al.*141 citations*
38. **[Breaking the Closed World Assumption in Text Classification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1061/)**Geli Fei, Bing Liu*133 citations*
39. **[Dependency Sensitive Convolutional Neural Networks for Modeling Sentences and Documents ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1177/)**Rui Zhang, Honglak Lee, Dragomir R. Radev*130 citations*
40. **[Neural Network-Based Abstract Generation for Opinions and Arguments](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2016-neural-network-based-abstract-generation/)**Lu Wang, Wang Ling*130 citations · our summary*
41. **[Dependency Based Embeddings for Sentence Classification Tasks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1175/)**Alexandros Komninos, Suresh Manandhar*121 citations*
42. **[Improved Neural Network-based Multi-label Classification with Better Initialization Leveraging Label Co-occurrence ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1063/)**Gakuto Kurata, Bing Xiang, Bowen Zhou*118 citations*
43. **[Ultradense Word Embeddings by Orthogonal Transformation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1091/)**Sascha Rothe, Sebastian Ebert, Hinrich Schütze*116 citations*
44. **[End-to-End Argumentation Mining in Student Essays](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/persing-2016-end-end-argumentation-mining-student/)**Isaac Persing, Vincent Ng*113 citations · our summary*
45. **[MGNC-CNN: A Simple Approach to Exploiting Multiple Word Embeddings for Sentence Classification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1178/)**Ye Zhang, Stephen Roller, Byron C. Wallace*113 citations*
46. **[Capturing Reliable Fine-Grained Sentiment Associations by Crowdsourcing and Best–Worst Scaling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kiritchenko-2016-capturing-reliable-fine-grained-sentiment/)**Svetlana Kiritchenko, Saif M. Mohammad*108 citations · our summary*
47. **[Cross-lingual Wikification Using Multilingual Embeddings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tsai-2016-cross-lingual-wikification-multilingual-embeddings/)**Chen-Tse Tsai, Dan Roth*107 citations · our summary*
48. **[Morphological Inflection Generation Using Character Sequence to Sequence Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1077/)**Manaal Faruqui, Yulia Tsvetkov, Graham Neubig et al.*107 citations*
49. **[Ten Pairs to Tag – Multilingual POS Tagging via Coarse Mapping between Embeddings ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1156/)**Yuan Zhang, David Gaddy, Regina Barzilay et al.*106 citations*
50. **[The Role of Context Types and Dimensionality in Learning Word Embeddings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/melamud-2016-role-context-types-dimensionality-learning/)**Oren Melamud, David McClosky, Siddharth Patwardhan et al.*103 citations · our summary*
51. **[Natural Language Communication with Robots ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1089/)**Yonatan Bisk, Deniz Yuret, Daniel Marcu*100 citations*
52. **[A Latent Variable Recurrent Neural Network for Discourse-Driven Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1037/)**Yangfeng Ji, Gholamreza Haffari, Jacob Eisenstein*99 citations*
53. **[Multilingual Relation Extraction using Compositional Universal Schema ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1103/)**Patrick Verga, David Belanger, Emma Strubell et al.*99 citations*
54. **[Generation from Abstract Meaning Representation using Tree Transducers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/flanigan-2016-generation-abstract-meaning-representation-tree/)**Jeffrey Flanigan, Chris Dyer, Noah A. Smith et al.*96 citations · our summary*
55. **[A Long Short-Term Memory Framework for Predicting Humor in Dialogues ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1016/)**Dario Bertero, Pascale Fung*95 citations*
56. **[STransE: a novel embedding model of entities and relationships in knowledge bases ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1054/)**Dat Quoc Nguyen, Kairit Sirts, Lizhen Qu et al.*94 citations*
57. **[Agreement on Target-bidirectional Neural Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1046/)**Lemao Liu, Masao Utiyama, Andrew Finch et al.*93 citations*
58. **[Leverage Financial News to Predict Stock Price Movements Using Word Embeddings and Deep Neural Networks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1041/)**Yangtuo Peng, Hui Jiang*89 citations*
59. **[Semi-supervised Question Retrieval with Gated Convolutions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1153/)**Tao Lei, Hrishikesh Joshi, Regina Barzilay et al.*89 citations*
60. **[Recurrent Memory Networks for Language Modeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1036/)**Ke Tran, Arianna Bisazza, Christof Monz*84 citations*
61. **[Bilingual Word Embeddings from Parallel and Non-parallel Corpora for Cross-Language Text Classification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1083/)**Aditya Mogadala, Achim Rettinger*80 citations*
62. **[Improve Chinese Word Embeddings by Exploiting Internal Structure ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1119/)**Jian Xu, Jiawei Liu, Liangang Zhang et al.*79 citations*
63. **[Shallow Parsing Pipeline - Hindi-English Code-Mixed Social Media Text ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1159/)**Arnav Sharma, Sakshi Gupta, Raveesh Motlani et al.*78 citations*
64. **[Top-down Tree Long Short-Term Memory Networks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1035/)**Xingxing Zhang, Liang Lu, Mirella Lapata*78 citations*
65. **[Supertagging With LSTMs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1027/)**Ashish Vaswani, Yonatan Bisk, Kenji Sagae et al.*72 citations*
66. **[LSTM CCG Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lewis-2016-lstm-ccg-parsing/)**Mike Lewis, Kenton Lee, Luke Zettlemoyer*71 citations · our summary*
67. **[Effective Crowd Annotation for Relation Extraction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1104/)**Angli Liu, Stephen Soderland, Jonathan Bragg et al.*67 citations*
68. **[Geolocation for Twitter: Timing Matters ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1122/)**Mark Dredze, Miles Osborne, Prabhanjan Kambadur*67 citations*
69. **[Conversational Flow in Oxford-style Debates ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1017/)**Justine Zhang, Ravi Kumar, Sujith Ravi et al.*60 citations*
70. **[Interpretese vs. Translationese: The Uniqueness of Human Strategies in Simultaneous Interpretation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1111/)**He He, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Hal Daumé III*59 citations*
71. **[Polyglot Neural Language Models: A Case Study in Cross-Lingual Phonetic Representation Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1161/)**Yulia Tsvetkov, Sunayana Sitaram, Manaal Faruqui et al.*59 citations*
72. **[Bridge Correlational Neural Networks for Multilingual Multimodal Representation Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1021/)**Janarthanan Rajendran, Mitesh M. Khapra, Sarath Chandar et al.*57 citations*
73. **[Weighting Finite-State Transductions With Neural Context ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1076/)**Pushpendre Rastogi, Ryan Cotterell, Jason Eisner*57 citations*
74. **[Convolutional Neural Networks vs. Convolution Kernels: Feature Engineering for Answer Sentence Reranking ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1152/)**Kateryna Tymoshenko, Daniele Bonadiman, Alessandro Moschitti*56 citations*
75. **[Inferring Psycholinguistic Properties of Words ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1050/)**Gustavo Paetzold, Lucia Specia*55 citations*
76. **[Deep LSTM based Feature Mapping for Query Classification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1176/)**Yangyang Shi, Kaisheng Yao, Le Tian et al.*54 citations*
77. **[The Sensitivity of Topic Coherence Evaluation to Topic Cardinality ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1057/)**Jey Han Lau, Timothy Baldwin*54 citations*
78. **[Cross-Domain Mining of Argumentative Text through Distant Supervision ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1165/)**Khalid Al-Khatib, Henning Wachsmuth, Matthias Hagen et al.*52 citations*
79. **[Conversational Markers of Constructive Discussions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1070/)**Vlad Niculae, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil*51 citations*
80. **[A Translation-Based Knowledge Graph Embedding Preserving Logical Property of Relations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1105/)**Hee-Geun Yoon, Hyun-Je Song, Seong-Bae Park et al.*49 citations*
81. **[A Joint Model of Orthography and Morphological Segmentation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1080/)**Ryan Cotterell, Tim Vieira, Hinrich Schütze*48 citations*
82. **[A Low-Rank Approximation Approach to Learning Joint Embeddings of News Stories and Images for Timeline Summarization ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1008/)**William Yang Wang, Yashar Mehdad, Dragomir R. Radev et al.*47 citations*
83. **[Stating the Obvious: Extracting Visual Common Sense Knowledge ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1023/)**Mark Yatskar, Vicente Ordonez, Ali Farhadi*46 citations*
84. **[Integer Linear Programming for Discourse Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/perret-2016-integer-linear-programming-discourse-parsing/)**Jérémy Perret, Stergos Afantenos, Nicholas Asher et al.*45 citations · our summary*
85. **[rstWeb - A Browser-based Annotation Interface for Rhetorical Structure Theory and Discourse Relations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zeldes-2016-rstweb-browser-based-annotation-interface/)**Amir Zeldes · Demonstrations*43 citations · our summary*
86. **[Individual Variation in the Choice of Referential Form ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1048/)**Thiago Castro Ferreira, Emiel Krahmer, Sander Wubben*42 citations*
87. **[Dynamic Feature Induction: The Last Gist to the State-of-the-Art ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1031/)**Jinho D. Choi*41 citations*
88. **[Comparing Convolutional Neural Networks to Traditional Models for Slot Filling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1097/)**Heike Adel, Benjamin Roth, Hinrich Schütze*40 citations*
89. **[A Novel Approach to Dropped Pronoun Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1113/)**Longyue Wang, Zhaopeng Tu, Xiaojun Zhang et al.*38 citations*
90. **[Frustratingly Easy Cross-Lingual Transfer for Transition-Based Dependency Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1121/)**Ophélie Lacroix, Lauriane Aufrant, Guillaume Wisniewski et al.*38 citations*
91. **[DAG-Structured Long Short-Term Memory for Semantic Compositionality ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1106/)**Xiaodan Zhu, Parinaz Sobhani, Hongyu Guo*37 citations*
92. **[Discriminative Reranking for Grammatical Error Correction with Statistical Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1133/)**Tomoya Mizumoto, Yuji Matsumoto*36 citations*
93. **[Learning Distributed Word Representations For Bidirectional LSTM Recurrent Neural Network ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1064/)**Peilu Wang, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong et al.*36 citations*
94. **[Sentiment Composition of Words with Opposing Polarities ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1128/)**Svetlana Kiritchenko, Saif M. Mohammad*36 citations*
95. **[Assessing Relative Sentence Complexity using an Incremental CCG Parser ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1120/)**Bharat Ram Ambati, Siva Reddy, Mark Steedman*35 citations*
96. **[Bilingual Learning of Multi-sense Embeddings with Discrete Autoencoders ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1160/)**Simon Šuster, Ivan Titov, Gertjan van Noord*35 citations*
97. **[Dynamic Entity Representation with Max-pooling Improves Machine Reading ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1099/)**Sosuke Kobayashi, Ran Tian, Naoaki Okazaki et al.*35 citations*
98. **[Learning a POS tagger for AAVE-like language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jorgensen-2016-learning-pos-tagger-aave-like/)**Anna Jørgensen, Dirk Hovy, Anders Søgaard*34 citations · our summary*
99. **[Zara The Supergirl: An Empathetic Personality Recognition System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-3018/)**Pascale Fung, Anik Dey, Farhad Bin Siddique et al. · Demonstrations*34 citations*
100. **[Incorporating Side Information into Recurrent Neural Network Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1149/)**Cong Duy Vu Hoang, Trevor Cohn, Gholamreza Haffari*33 citations*

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