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# Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2018 — papers

The works of Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) published in 2018 that our library holds (publisher: The MIT Press): 17 works, listed below with the most cited first; each has a page with our summary, its key points and its references.

[**48** works that year](#all) · [**17** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2018/#works) · [**4,314** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2018/#works)

## All works of the year (48)

The most cited first; 17 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Adversarial Deep Averaging Networks for Cross-Lingual Sentiment Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2018-adversarial-deep-averaging-networks-cross/)**Xilun Chen, Yu Sun, Ben Athiwaratkun et al.*our summary*
2. **[Attentive Convolution: Equipping CNNs with RNN-style Attention Mechanisms](https://aclanthology.org/Q18-1047/)**Wenpeng Yin, Hinrich Schütze
3. **[Bootstrap Domain-Specific Sentiment Classifiers from Unlabeled Corpora](https://aclanthology.org/Q18-1020/)**Andrius Mudinas, Dell Zhang, Mark Levene
4. **[Comparing Bayesian Models of Annotation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/paun-2018-comparing-bayesian-models-annotation/)**Silviu Paun, Bob Carpenter, Jon Chamberlain et al.*our summary*
5. **[Constructing Datasets for Multi-hop Reading Comprehension Across Documents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/welbl-2018-constructing-datasets-multi-hop-reading/)**Johannes Welbl, Pontus Stenetorp, Sebastian Riedel*our summary*
6. **[Conversation Modeling on Reddit Using a Graph-Structured LSTM](https://aclanthology.org/Q18-1009/)**Victoria Zayats, Mari Ostendorf
7. **[Data Statements for Natural Language Processing: Toward Mitigating System Bias and Enabling Better Science](https://aclanthology.org/Q18-1041/)**Emily M. Bender, Batya Friedman
8. **[Detecting Institutional Dialog Acts in Police Traffic Stops](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/prabhakaran-2018-detecting-institutional-dialog-acts-police/)**Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Camilla Griffiths, Hang Su et al.*our summary*
9. **[Do latent tree learning models identify meaningful structure in sentences?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/williams-2018-do-latent-tree-learning-models/)**Adina Williams, Andrew Drozdov, Samuel R. Bowman*our summary*
10. **[Evaluating the Stability of Embedding-based Word Similarities](https://aclanthology.org/Q18-1008/)**Maria Antoniak, David Mimno
11. **[Event Time Extraction with a Decision Tree of Neural Classifiers](https://aclanthology.org/Q18-1006/)**Nils Reimers, Nazanin Dehghani, Iryna Gurevych
12. **[Exploring Neural Methods for Parsing Discourse Representation Structures](https://aclanthology.org/Q18-1043/)**Rik van Noord, Lasha Abzianidze, Antonio Toral et al.
13. **[Finding Convincing Arguments Using Scalable Bayesian Preference Learning](https://aclanthology.org/Q18-1026/)**Edwin Simpson, Iryna Gurevych
14. **[From Characters to Time Intervals: New Paradigms for Evaluation and Neural Parsing of Time Normalizations](https://aclanthology.org/Q18-1025/)**Egoitz Laparra, Dongfang Xu, Steven Bethard
15. **[Generating Sentences by Editing Prototypes](https://aclanthology.org/Q18-1031/)**Kelvin Guu, Tatsunori B. Hashimoto, Yonatan Oren et al.
16. **[Integrating Weakly Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation into Neural Machine Translation](https://aclanthology.org/Q18-1044/)**Xiao Pu, Nikolaos Pappas, James Henderson et al.
17. **[Joint Semantic Synthesis and Morphological Analysis of the Derived Word](https://aclanthology.org/Q18-1003/)**Ryan Cotterell, Hinrich Schütze
18. **[Knowledge Completion for Generics using Guided Tensor Factorization](https://aclanthology.org/Q18-1015/)**Hanie Sedghi, Ashish Sabharwal
19. **[Language Modeling for Morphologically Rich Languages: Character-Aware Modeling for Word-Level Prediction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gerz-2018-language-modeling-morphologically-rich-languages/)**Daniela Gerz, Ivan Vulić, Edoardo Ponti et al.*our summary*
20. **[Learning Representations Specialized in Spatial Knowledge: Leveraging Language and Vision](https://aclanthology.org/Q18-1010/)**Guillem Collell, Marie-Francine Moens
21. **[Learning Structured Text Representations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2018-learning-structured-text-representations/)**Yang Liu, Mirella Lapata*our summary*
22. **[Learning Typed Entailment Graphs with Global Soft Constraints](https://aclanthology.org/Q18-1048/)**Mohammad Javad Hosseini, Nathanael Chambers, Siva Reddy et al.
23. **[Learning to Remember Translation History with a Continuous Cache](https://aclanthology.org/Q18-1029/)**Zhaopeng Tu, Yang Liu, Shuming Shi et al.
24. **[Leveraging Orthographic Similarity for Multilingual Neural Transliteration](https://aclanthology.org/Q18-1022/)**Anoop Kunchukuttan, Mitesh Khapra, Gurneet Singh et al.
25. **[Linear Algebraic Structure of Word Senses, with Applications to Polysemy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/arora-2018-linear-algebraic-structure-word-senses/)**Sanjeev Arora, Yuanzhi Li, Yingyu Liang et al.*our summary*

[See all 48 papers in Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2018 — papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2018/papers/)

## Works with our summary in our library (17)

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

1. [**The NarrativeQA Reading Comprehension Challenge**Tomáš Kočiský, Jonathan Schwarz, Phil Blunsom, et al.*2018 · 1,031 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kocisky-2018-narrativeqa-reading-comprehension-challenge/)
2. **[Massively Multilingual Sentence Embeddings for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer and Beyond](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/artetxe-2018-massively-multilingual-sentence-embeddings-zero/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Mikel Artetxe, Holger Schwenk*2018 · 629 citations*
3. **[Adversarial Deep Averaging Networks for Cross-Lingual Sentiment Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2018-adversarial-deep-averaging-networks-cross/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Xilun Chen, Yu Sun, Ben Athiwaratkun, et al.*2018 · 393 citations*
4. [**Mind the GAP: A Balanced Corpus of Gendered Ambiguous Pronouns**Kellie Webster, Marta Recasens, Vera Axelrod, et al.*2018 · 358 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/webster-2018-mind-gap-balanced-corpus-gendered/)
5. **[Measuring the Evolution of a Scientific Field through Citation Frames](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jurgens-2018-measuring-evolution-scientific-field-through/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**David Jurgens, Srijan Kumar, Raine Hoover, et al.*2018 · 311 citations*
6. **[Constructing Datasets for Multi-hop Reading Comprehension Across Documents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/welbl-2018-constructing-datasets-multi-hop-reading/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Johannes Welbl, Pontus Stenetorp, Sebastian Riedel*2018 · 284 citations*
7. **[Linear Algebraic Structure of Word Senses, with Applications to Polysemy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/arora-2018-linear-algebraic-structure-word-senses/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Sanjeev Arora, Yuanzhi Li, Yingyu Liang, et al.*2018 · 248 citations*
8. **[Learning Structured Text Representations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2018-learning-structured-text-representations/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Yang Liu, Mirella Lapata*2018 · 201 citations*
9. **[Do latent tree learning models identify meaningful structure in sentences?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/williams-2018-do-latent-tree-learning-models/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Adina Williams, Andrew Drozdov, Samuel R. Bowman*2018 · 147 citations*
10. [**Mapping to Declarative Knowledge for Word Problem Solving**Subhro Roy, Dan Roth*2018 · 143 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/roy-2018-mapping-declarative-knowledge-word-problem/)
11. **[Scheduled Multi-Task Learning: From Syntax to Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kiperwasser-2018-scheduled-multi-task-learning-syntax/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Eliyahu Kiperwasser, Miguel Ballesteros*2018 · 130 citations*
12. **[Comparing Bayesian Models of Annotation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/paun-2018-comparing-bayesian-models-annotation/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Silviu Paun, Bob Carpenter, Jon Chamberlain, et al.*2018 · 130 citations*
13. **[Recurrent Neural Networks in Linguistic Theory: Revisiting Pinker and Prince (1988) and the Past Tense Debate](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kirov-2018-recurrent-neural-networks-linguistic-theory/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Christo Kirov, Ryan Cotterell*2018 · 124 citations*
14. **[Language Modeling for Morphologically Rich Languages: Character-Aware Modeling for Word-Level Prediction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gerz-2018-language-modeling-morphologically-rich-languages/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Daniela Gerz, Ivan Vulić, Edoardo Ponti, et al.*2018 · 82 citations*
15. **[Unsupervised Grammar Induction with Depth-bounded PCFG](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jin-2018-unsupervised-grammar-induction-depth-bounded/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Lifeng Jin, Finale Doshi-Velez, Timothy Miller, et al.*2018 · 55 citations*
16. **[Planning, Inference and Pragmatics in Sequential Language Games](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/khani-2018-planning-inference-pragmatics-sequential-language/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Fereshte Khani, Noah D. Goodman, Percy Liang*2018 · 29 citations*
17. **[Detecting Institutional Dialog Acts in Police Traffic Stops](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/prabhakaran-2018-detecting-institutional-dialog-acts-police/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Camilla Griffiths, Hang Su, et al.*2018 · 19 citations*

## Top topics

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

[Question answering (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [English (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Speech act theory (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [Word sense disambiguation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/) · [Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Sentiment & emotion (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Dialogue systems (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Lexical semantics & word embeddings (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/lexical-semantics/) · [Morphology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Reasoning (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Syntax & grammar formalisms (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (17)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (17)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Decision Sciences (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Social Sciences (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Psychology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/)

## Top authors

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

[🧑‍🔬**Dan Jurafsky**2 works here · 330 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-jurafsky/) · [🧑‍🔬**Chris Dyer**1 work here · 1,031 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-dyer/) · [🧑‍🔬**Edward Grefenstette**1 work here · 1,031 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/edward-grefenstette/) · [🧑‍🔬**Karl Moritz Hermann**1 work here · 1,031 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karl-moritz-hermann/) · [🧑‍🔬**Phil Blunsom**1 work here · 1,031 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/phil-blunsom/) · [🧑‍🔬**Tomáš Kočiský**1 work here · 1,031 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tomas-kocisky/) · [🧑‍🔬**Holger Schwenk**1 work here · 629 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/holger-schwenk/) · [🧑‍🔬**Mikel Artetxe**1 work here · 629 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mikel-artetxe/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ben Athiwaratkun**1 work here · 393 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ben-athiwaratkun/) · [🧑‍🔬**Claire Cardie**1 work here · 393 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claire-cardie/) · [🧑‍🔬**Kilian Q. Weinberger**1 work here · 393 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kilian-q-weinberger/) · [🧑‍🔬**Xilun Chen**1 work here · 393 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xilun-chen/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 3 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🎓**University of Essex** Colchester · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-essex/) · [🏥**Boston Children's Hospital** Boston · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/hospitals/boston-children-s-hospital/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🔬**International Computer Science Institute** Berkeley · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/international-computer-science-institute/) · [🏢**IBM** Armonk · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) · [🎓**Harvard University** Cambridge · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-university/) · [🎓**Bar-Ilan University** Ramat Gan · Israel 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bar-ilan-university/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**Queen Mary University of London** London · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/queen-mary-university-of-london/) · [🎓**University of the Basque Country** Leioa · Spain 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-the-basque-country/)

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