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# Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2020 — papers

The works of Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) published in 2020 that our library holds (publisher: The MIT Press): 14 works, listed below with the most cited first; each has a page with our summary, its key points and its references.

[**54** works that year](#all) · [**14** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2020/#works) · [**7,771** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2020/#works)

## All works of the year (54)

The most cited first; 14 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Graph-based Model for Joint Chinese Word Segmentation and Dependency Parsing](https://aclanthology.org/2020.tacl-1.6/)**Hang Yan, Xipeng Qiu, Xuanjing Huang
2. **[A Knowledge-Enhanced Pretraining Model for Commonsense Story Generation](https://aclanthology.org/2020.tacl-1.7/)**Jian Guan, Fei Huang, Zhihao Zhao et al.
3. **[A Neural Generative Model for Joint Learning Topics and Topic-Specific Word Embeddings](https://aclanthology.org/2020.tacl-1.31/)**Lixing Zhu, Yulan He, Deyu Zhou
4. **[A Primer in BERTology: What We Know About How BERT Works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rogers-2020-primer-bertology-what-we-know/)**Anna Rogers, Olga Kovaleva, Anna Rumshisky*our summary*
5. **[AMR Similarity Metrics from Principles](https://aclanthology.org/2020.tacl-1.34/)**Juri Opitz, Letitia Parcalabescu, Anette Frank
6. **[AMR-To-Text Generation with Graph Transformer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2020-amr-text-generation-graph-transformer/)**Tianming Wang, Xiaojun Wan, Hanqi Jin*our summary*
7. **[Acoustic-Prosodic and Lexical Cues to Deception and Trust: Deciphering How People Detect Lies](https://aclanthology.org/2020.tacl-1.14/)**Xi (Leslie) Chen, Sarah Ita Levitan, Michelle Levine et al.
8. **[An Empirical Study on Robustness to Spurious Correlations using Pre-trained Language Models](https://aclanthology.org/2020.tacl-1.40/)**Lifu Tu, Garima Lalwani, Spandana Gella et al.
9. **[BLiMP: The Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs for English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/warstadt-2020-blimp-benchmark-linguistic-minimal-pairs/)**Alex Warstadt, Alicia Parrish, Haokun Liu et al.*our summary*
10. **[Beat the AI: Investigating Adversarial Human Annotation for Reading Comprehension](https://aclanthology.org/2020.tacl-1.43/)**Max Bartolo, Alastair Roberts, Johannes Welbl et al.
11. **[Best-First Beam Search](https://aclanthology.org/2020.tacl-1.51/)**Clara Meister, Tim Vieira, Ryan Cotterell
12. **[Better Document-Level Machine Translation with Bayes' Rule](https://aclanthology.org/2020.tacl-1.23/)**Lei Yu, Laurent Sartran, Wojciech Stokowiec et al.
13. **[Break It Down: A Question Understanding Benchmark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wolfson-2020-break-it-down-question-understanding/)**Tomer Wolfson, Mor Geva, Ankit Gupta et al.*our summary*
14. **[Consistent Transcription and Translation of Speech](https://aclanthology.org/2020.tacl-1.45/)**Matthias Sperber, Hendra Setiawan, Christian Gollan et al.
15. **[Consistent Unsupervised Estimators for Anchored PCFGs](https://aclanthology.org/2020.tacl-1.27/)**Alexander Clark, Nathanaël Fijalkow
16. **[CrossWOZ: A Large-Scale Chinese Cross-Domain Task-Oriented Dialogue Dataset](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhu-2020-crosswoz-large-scale-chinese-cross/)**Qi Zhu, Kaili Huang, Zheng Zhang et al.*our summary*
17. **[Data Weighted Training Strategies for Grammatical Error Correction](https://aclanthology.org/2020.tacl-1.41/)**Jared Lichtarge, Chris Alberti, Shankar Kumar
18. **[Decoding Brain Activity Associated with Literal and Metaphoric Sentence Comprehension Using Distributional Semantic Models](https://aclanthology.org/2020.tacl-1.16/)**Vesna G. Djokic, Jean Maillard, Luana Bulat et al.
19. **[Does Syntax Need to Grow on Trees? Sources of Hierarchical Inductive Bias in Sequence-to-Sequence Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mccoy-2020-does-syntax-need-grow-trees/)**R. Thomas McCoy, Robert Frank, Tal Linzen*our summary*
20. **[Hierarchical Mapping for Crosslingual Word Embedding Alignment](https://aclanthology.org/2020.tacl-1.24/)**Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Maria Soledad Pera
21. **[How Can We Know What Language Models Know?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jiang-2020-how-can-we-know-what/)**Zhengbao Jiang, Frank F. Xu, Jun Araki et al.*our summary*
22. **[How Furiously Can Colorless Green Ideas Sleep? Sentence Acceptability in Context](https://aclanthology.org/2020.tacl-1.20/)**Jey Han Lau, Carlos Armendariz, Shalom Lappin et al.
23. **[Improving Candidate Generation for Low-resource Cross-lingual Entity Linking](https://aclanthology.org/2020.tacl-1.8/)**Shuyan Zhou, Shruti Rijhwani, John Wieting et al.
24. **[Improving Dialog Evaluation with a Multi-reference Adversarial Dataset and Large Scale Pretraining](https://aclanthology.org/2020.tacl-1.52/)**Ananya B. Sai, Akash Kumar Mohankumar, Siddhartha Arora et al.
25. **[Interactive Text Ranking with Bayesian Optimization: A Case Study on Community QA and Summarization](https://aclanthology.org/2020.tacl-1.49/)**Edwin Simpson, Yang Gao, Iryna Gurevych

[See all 54 papers in Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2020 — papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2020/papers/)

## Works with our summary in our library (14)

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

1. **[A Primer in BERTology: What We Know About How BERT Works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rogers-2020-primer-bertology-what-we-know/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Anna Rogers, Olga Kovaleva, Anna Rumshisky*2020 · 2,134 citations*
2. **[How Can We Know What Language Models Know?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jiang-2020-how-can-we-know-what/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Zhengbao Jiang, Frank F. Xu, Jun Araki, et al.*2020 · 1,501 citations*
3. **[Topic Modeling in Embedding Spaces](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dieng-2020-topic-modeling-embedding-spaces/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Adji B. Dieng, Francisco J. R. Ruiz, David M. Blei*2020 · 915 citations*
4. **[What BERT Is Not: Lessons from a New Suite of Psycholinguistic Diagnostics for Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ettinger-2020-what-bert-is-not-lessons/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Allyson Ettinger*2020 · 847 citations*
5. **[TyDi QA: A Benchmark for Information-Seeking Question Answering in Typologically Diverse Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/clark-2020-tydi-qa-benchmark-information-seeking/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Jonathan H. Clark, Eunsol Choi, Michael Collins, et al.*2020 · 692 citations*
6. **[Efficient Content-Based Sparse Attention with Routing Transformers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/roy-2020-efficient-content-based-sparse-attention/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Aurko Roy, Mohammad Saffar, Ashish Vaswani, et al.*2020 · 664 citations*
7. **[Break It Down: A Question Understanding Benchmark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wolfson-2020-break-it-down-question-understanding/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Tomer Wolfson, Mor Geva, Ankit Gupta, et al.*2020 · 218 citations*
8. **[Unsupervised Quality Estimation for Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/fomicheva-2020-unsupervised-quality-estimation-neural-machine/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Marina Fomicheva, Shuo Sun, Lisa Yankovskaya, et al.*2020 · 153 citations*
9. **[CrossWOZ: A Large-Scale Chinese Cross-Domain Task-Oriented Dialogue Dataset](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhu-2020-crosswoz-large-scale-chinese-cross/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Qi Zhu, Kaili Huang, Zheng Zhang, et al.*2020 · 146 citations*
10. **[Syntax-Guided Controlled Generation of Paraphrases](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kumar-2020-syntax-guided-controlled-generation-paraphrases/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Ashutosh Kumar, Kabir Ahuja, Raghuram Vadapalli, et al.*2020 · 131 citations*
11. **[Does Syntax Need to Grow on Trees? Sources of Hierarchical Inductive Bias in Sequence-to-Sequence Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mccoy-2020-does-syntax-need-grow-trees/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**R. Thomas McCoy, Robert Frank, Tal Linzen*2020 · 122 citations*
12. **[Task-Oriented Dialogue as Dataflow Synthesis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/andreas-2020-task-oriented-dialogue-as-dataflow/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Jacob Andreas, John Bufe, David Burkett, et al.*2020 · 119 citations*
13. **[AMR-To-Text Generation with Graph Transformer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2020-amr-text-generation-graph-transformer/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Tianming Wang, Xiaojun Wan, Hanqi Jin*2020 · 108 citations*
14. [**BLiMP: The Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs for English**Alex Warstadt, Alicia Parrish, Haokun Liu, et al.*2020 · 21 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/warstadt-2020-blimp-benchmark-linguistic-minimal-pairs/)

## Top topics

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

[Evaluation & benchmarks (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Language models & pretraining (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Dialogue systems (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Syntax & grammar formalisms (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/) · [Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Question answering (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Text generation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [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/) · [Efficient models & compression (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/) · [English (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (14)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (14)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Social Sciences (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/)

## Top authors

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

[🧑‍🔬**Anna Rogers**1 work here · 2,134 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anna-rogers/) · [🧑‍🔬**Anna Rumshisky**1 work here · 2,134 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anna-rumshisky/) · [🧑‍🔬**Olga Kovaleva**1 work here · 2,134 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/olga-kovaleva/) · [🧑‍🔬**Frank F. Xu**1 work here · 1,501 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/frank-f-xu/) · [🧑‍🔬**Graham Neubig**1 work here · 1,501 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/graham-neubig/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jun Araki**1 work here · 1,501 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jun-araki/) · [🧑‍🔬**Zhengbao Jiang**1 work here · 1,501 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhengbao-jiang/) · [🧑‍🔬**David M. Blei**1 work here · 915 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-m-blei/) · [🧑‍🔬**Francisco J. R. Ruiz**1 work here · 915 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francisco-j-r-ruiz/) · [🧑‍🔬**Allyson Ettinger**1 work here · 847 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/allyson-ettinger/) · [🧑‍🔬**Dan Garrette**1 work here · 692 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-garrette/) · [🧑‍🔬**Eunsol Choi**1 work here · 692 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eunsol-choi/)

## Top institutions

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

[🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🎓**University of Copenhagen** Copenhagen · Denmark 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-copenhagen/) · [🎓**University of Massachusetts Lowell** Lowell · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-massachusetts-lowell/) · [🎓**Bar-Ilan University** Ramat Gan · Israel 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bar-ilan-university/) · [🎓**Tel Aviv University** Tel Aviv · Israel 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tel-aviv-university/) · [🎓**Peking University** Beijing · China 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/peking-university/) · [🎓**Yale University** New Haven · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/yale-university/) · [🎓**University of Chicago** Chicago · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-chicago/) · [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) · [🏢**Meta (United Kingdom)** London · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/meta-united-kingdom/) · [🏢**Google (United Kingdom)** London · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-united-kingdom/)

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