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# Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)

Conference series Published by [Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/association-for-computational-linguistics/)

- [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/venues/starsem/)
- [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/S4306420406)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61694287)

[**45** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/works/) · [**5,320** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/works/) · [**2,292** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/works/) · [**2012–2026** years of the works here](#years)

## Works by year

Works in our library by year 45 dated works from 2012 to 2026; the busiest year is 2026 with 22.

**The numbers**

| Year | Works |
| --- | --- |
| 2026 | 22 |
| 2023 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2 |
| 2013 | 4 |
| 2012 | 5 |

## Top topics

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

[Language models & pretraining (11)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Sentiment & emotion (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Coreference resolution (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Idioms & multiword expressions (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/) · [English (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Reasoning (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Interpretability (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [Semantic role labeling (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/) · [Dialogue systems (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Lexical semantics & word embeddings (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/lexical-semantics/) · [Tokenization & segmentation (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) · [Named entity recognition (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Dependency parsing (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/)

**8 more topics**

[Universal Dependencies (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/universal-dependencies/) · [Question answering (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Speech & spoken language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Semantic parsing & meaning representation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/) · [Psycholinguistics & language acquisition (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/psycholinguistics/) · [Bias, fairness & safety (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Vision & language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Historical linguistics & language change (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-change/)

## Fields

[Computer Science (44)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities (39)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Psychology (8)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Social Sciences (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Neuroscience (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/neuroscience/)

## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**Saif Mohammad**4 works here · 1,809 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saif-mohammad/) · [🧑‍🔬**Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre**2 works here · 1,765 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aitor-gonzalez-agirre/) · [🧑‍🔬**Daniel Cer**2 works here · 1,765 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-cer/) · [🧑‍🔬**Eneko Agirre**2 works here · 1,765 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eneko-agirre/) · [🧑‍🔬**Mona Diab**2 works here · 1,765 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mona-diab/) · [🧑‍🔬**Svetlana Kiritchenko**2 works here · 1,234 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/svetlana-kiritchenko/) · [🧑‍🔬**Zornitsa Kozareva**2 works here · 411 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zornitsa-kozareva/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ekaterina Shutova**2 works here · 286 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ekaterina-shutova/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ido Dagan**2 works here · 266 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ido-dagan/) · [🧑‍🔬**Alessandro Lenci**2 works here · 65 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alessandro-lenci/) · [🧑‍🔬**Dan Roth**2 works here · 54 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-roth/) · [🧑‍🔬**Xiaodan Zhu**1 work here · 660 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaodan-zhu/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**University of Stuttgart** Stuttgart · Germany 3 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-stuttgart/) · [🏛️**National Research Council Canada** Ottawa · Canada 3 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/national-research-council-canada/) · [🎓**Columbia University** New York · United States 3 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) · [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 3 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) · [🎓**Bar-Ilan University** Ramat Gan · Israel 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bar-ilan-university/) · [🎓**University of the Basque Country** Leioa · Spain 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-the-basque-country/) · [🎓**University of Colorado Boulder** Boulder · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-colorado-boulder/) · [🏛️**National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine** Washington · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/national-academies-of-sciences-engineering-and-medicine/) · [🎓**University of Sheffield** Sheffield · United Kingdom 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-sheffield/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🎓**Institut polytechnique de Grenoble** Grenoble · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/institut-polytechnique-de-grenoble/) · [🎓**University of Pisa** Pisa · Italy 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pisa/)

## Works in our library (45)

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

1. [**SemEval-2012 Task 6: A Pilot on Semantic Textual Similarity**Eneko Agirre, Daniel Cer, Mona Diab, et al.*2012 · 1,107 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/agirre-2012-semeval-2012-task-6-pilot/)
2. [**NRC-Canada: Building the State-of-the-Art in Sentiment Analysis of Tweets**Saif Mohammad, Svetlana Kiritchenko, Xiaodan Zhu*2013 · 660 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mohammad-2013-nrc-canada-building-state-art/)
3. [***SEM 2013 shared task: Semantic Textual Similarity**Eneko Agirre, Daniel Cer, Mona Diab, et al.*2013 · 658 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/agirre-2013-sem-2013-shared-task-semantic/)
4. [**Examining Gender and Race Bias in Two Hundred Sentiment Analysis Systems**Svetlana Kiritchenko, Saif Mohammad*2018 · 574 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kiritchenko-2018-examining-gender-race-bias-two/)
5. [**Emotion Intensities in Tweets**Saif Mohammad, Felipe Bravo-Marquez*2017 · 290 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mohammad-2017-emotion-intensities-tweets/)
6. [**Metaphor as a Medium for Emotion: An Empirical Study**Saif Mohammad, Ekaterina Shutova, Peter Turney*2016 · 285 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mohammad-2016-metaphor-as-medium-emotion-empirical/)
7. [**UKP: Computing Semantic Textual Similarity by Combining Multiple Content Similarity Measures**Daniel Bär, Chris Biemann, Iryna Gurevych, et al.*2012 · 274 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bar-2012-ukp-computing-semantic-textual-similarity/)
8. [**SemEval-2013 Task 7: The Joint Student Response Analysis and 8th Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge**Myroslava Dzikovska, Rodney Nielsen, Chris Brew, et al.*2013 · 235 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dzikovska-2013-semeval-2013-task-7-joint/)
9. [**SemEval-2012 Task 7: Choice of Plausible Alternatives: An Evaluation of Commonsense Causal Reasoning**Andrew Gordon, Zornitsa Kozareva, Melissa Roemmele*2012 · 211 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gordon-2012-semeval-2012-task-7-choice/)
10. [**SemEval-2012 Task 1: English Lexical Simplification**Lucia Specia, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Rada Mihalcea*2012 · 210 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/specia-2012-semeval-2012-task-1-english/)
11. [**SemEval-2013 Task 2: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter**Preslav Nakov, Sara Rosenthal, Zornitsa Kozareva, et al.*2013 · 200 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nakov-2013-semeval-2013-task-2-sentiment/)
12. [**Probing What Different NLP Tasks Teach Machines about Function Word Comprehension**Najoung Kim, Roma Patel, Adam Poliak, et al.*2019 · 161 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kim-2019-probing-what-different-nlp-tasks/)
13. [**Resolving Event Coreference with Supervised Representation Learning and Clustering-Oriented Regularization**Kian Kenyon-Dean, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Doina Precup*2018 · 87 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dean-2018-resolving-event-coreference-supervised-representation/)
14. [**Find or Classify? Dual Strategy for Slot-Value Predictions on Multi-Domain Dialog State Tracking**Jianguo Zhang, Kazuma Hashimoto, Chien-Sheng Wu, et al.*2020 · 79 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2020-find-or-classify-dual-strategy/)
15. [**Identifying hypernyms in distributional semantic spaces**Alessandro Lenci, Giulia Benotto*2012 · 65 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lenci-2012-identifying-hypernyms-distributional-semantic-spaces/)
16. [**PropBank Comes of Age—Larger, Smarter, and more Diverse**Sameer Pradhan, Julia Bonn, Skatje Myers, et al.*2022 · 41 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pradhan-2022-propbank-comes-age-larger-smarter/)
17. [**Interactive Agents: Simulating Counselor-Client Psychological Counseling via Role-Playing LLM-to-LLM Interactions**Huachuan Qiu, Zhenzhong Lan*2026 · 31 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qiu-2026-interactive-agents-simulating-counselor-client/)
18. [**Pairwise Representation Learning for Event Coreference**Xiaodong Yu, Wenpeng Yin, Dan Roth*2022 · 31 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yu-2022-pairwise-representation-learning-event-coreference/)
19. [**Realistic Evaluation Principles for Cross-document Coreference Resolution**Arie Cattan, Alon Eirew, Gabriel Stanovsky, et al.*2021 · 31 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cattan-2021-realistic-evaluation-principles-cross-document/)
20. [**The Role of Modifier and Head Properties in Predicting the Compositionality of English and German Noun-Noun Compounds: A Vector-Space Perspective**Sabine Schulte im Walde, Anna Hätty, Stefan Bott*2016 · 28 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/walde-2016-role-modifier-head-properties-predicting/)
21. [**Improving Generalization in Coreference Resolution via Adversarial Training**Sanjay Subramanian, Dan Roth*2019 · 23 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/subramanian-2019-improving-generalization-coreference-resolution-adversarial/)
22. [**When Truth Matters - Addressing Pragmatic Categories in Natural Language Inference (NLI) by Large Language Models (LLMs)**Reto Gubelmann, Aikaterini-lida Kalouli, Christina Niklaus, et al.*2023 · 15 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gubelmann-2023-when-truth-matters-addressing-pragmatic/)
23. [**How Are Idioms Processed Inside Transformer Language Models?**Ye Tian, Isobel James, Hye Son*2023 · 11 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tian-2023-how-are-idioms-processed-inside/)
24. [**The LSCD Benchmark: a Testbed for Diachronic Word Meaning Tasks**Dominik Schlechtweg, Sachin Yadav, Jonas Kuhn, et al.*2026 · 6 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schlechtweg-2026-lscd-benchmark-testbed-diachronic-word/)
25. [**Frame In, Frame Out: Measuring Framing Bias in LLM-Generated News Summaries**Valeria Pastorino, Nafise Sadat Moosavi*2026 · 3 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pastorino-2026-frame-frame-out-measuring-framing/)

[See all 45 works →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/works/)

Venues, publishers and identifiers from OpenAlex (2026-10-14) and the ACL Anthology; yearly proceedings are counted as one series.