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# Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2021 — papers

The works of Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) published in 2021 that our library holds (publisher: The MIT Press): 30 works, listed below with the most cited first; each has a page with our summary, its key points and its references.

[**93** works that year](#all) · [**30** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2021/works/) · [**4,886** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2021/works/)

## All works of the year (93)

The most cited first; 30 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Biologically Plausible Parser](https://aclanthology.org/2021.tacl-1.81/)**Daniel Mitropolsky, Michael J. Collins, Christos H. Papadimitriou
2. **[A Computational Framework for Slang Generation](https://aclanthology.org/2021.tacl-1.28/)**Zhewei Sun, Richard Zemel, Yang Xu
3. **[A Statistical Analysis of Summarization Evaluation Metrics Using Resampling Methods](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/deutsch-2021-statistical-analysis-summarization-evaluation-metrics/)**Daniel Deutsch, Rotem Dror, Dan Roth*our summary*
4. **[Adaptive Semiparametric Language Models](https://aclanthology.org/2021.tacl-1.22/)**Dani Yogatama, Cyprien de Masson d'Autume, Lingpeng Kong
5. **[Aligning Faithful Interpretations with their Social Attribution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jacovi-2021-aligning-faithful-interpretations-their-social/)**Alon Jacovi, Yoav Goldberg*our summary*
6. **[Amnesic Probing: Behavioral Explanation with Amnesic Counterfactuals](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elazar-2021-amnesic-probing-behavioral-explanation-amnesic/)**Yanai Elazar, Shauli Ravfogel, Alon Jacovi et al.*our summary*
7. **[An Error Analysis Framework for Shallow Surface Realization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shimorina-2021-error-analysis-framework-shallow-surface/)**Anastasia Shimorina, Yannick Parmentier, Claire Gardent*our summary*
8. **[Augmenting Transformers with KNN-Based Composite Memory for Dialog](https://aclanthology.org/2021.tacl-1.6/)**Angela Fan, Claire Gardent, Chloé Braud et al.
9. **[Characterizing English Variation across Social Media Communities with BERT](https://aclanthology.org/2021.tacl-1.33/)**Li Lucy, David Bamman
10. **[Classifying Argumentative Relations Using Logical Mechanisms and Argumentation Schemes](https://aclanthology.org/2021.tacl-1.44/)**Yohan Jo, Seojin Bang, Chris Reed et al.
11. **[Compressing Large-Scale Transformer-Based Models: A Case Study on BERT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ganesh-2021-compressing-large-scale-transformer-based/)**Prakhar Ganesh, Yao Chen, Xin Lou et al.*our summary*
12. **[Context-aware Adversarial Training for Name Regularity Bias in Named Entity Recognition](https://aclanthology.org/2021.tacl-1.36/)**Abbas Ghaddar, Philippe Langlais, Ahmad Rashid et al.
13. **[Continual Learning for Grounded Instruction Generation by Observing Human Following Behavior](https://aclanthology.org/2021.tacl-1.77/)**Noriyuki Kojima, Alane Suhr, Yoav Artzi
14. **[Controllable Summarization with Constrained Markov Decision Process](https://aclanthology.org/2021.tacl-1.72/)**Hou Pong Chan, Lu Wang, Irwin King
15. **[Conversation Graph: Data Augmentation, Training, and Evaluation for Non-Deterministic Dialogue Management](https://aclanthology.org/2021.tacl-1.3/)**Milan Gritta, Gerasimos Lampouras, Ignacio Iacobacci
16. **[Data-to-text Generation with Macro Planning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/puduppully-2021-data-text-generation-macro-planning/)**Ratish Puduppully, Mirella Lapata*our summary*
17. **[Deciphering Undersegmented Ancient Scripts Using Phonetic Prior](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/luo-2021-deciphering-undersegmented-ancient-scripts-phonetic/)**Jiaming Luo, Frederik Hartmann, Enrico Santus et al.*our summary*
18. **[Decontextualization: Making Sentences Stand-Alone](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/choi-2021-decontextualization-making-sentences-stand-alone/)**Eunsol Choi, Jennimaria Palomaki, Matthew Lamm et al.*our summary*
19. **[Decoupling the Role of Data, Attention, and Losses in Multimodal Transformers](https://aclanthology.org/2021.tacl-1.35/)**Lisa Anne Hendricks, John Mellor, Rosalia Schneider et al.
20. **[Dialogue State Tracking with Incremental Reasoning](https://aclanthology.org/2021.tacl-1.34/)**Lizi Liao, Le Hong Long, Yunshan Ma et al.
21. **[Did Aristotle Use a Laptop? A Question Answering Benchmark with Implicit Reasoning Strategies](https://aclanthology.org/2021.tacl-1.21/)**Mor Geva, Daniel Khashabi, Elad Segal et al.
22. **[Differentiable Subset Pruning of Transformer Heads](https://aclanthology.org/2021.tacl-1.86/)**Jiaoda Li, Ryan Cotterell, Mrinmaya Sachan
23. **[EDITOR: An Edit-Based Transformer with Repositioning for Neural Machine Translation with Soft Lexical Constraints](https://aclanthology.org/2021.tacl-1.19/)**Weijia Xu, Marine Carpuat
24. **[Efficient Computation of Expectations under Spanning Tree Distributions](https://aclanthology.org/2021.tacl-1.41/)**Ran Zmigrod, Tim Vieira, Ryan Cotterell
25. **[Efficient Content-Based Sparse Attention with Routing Transformers](https://aclanthology.org/2021.tacl-1.4/)**Aurko Roy, Mohammad Saffar, Ashish Vaswani et al.

[See all 93 papers in Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2021 — papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2021/papers/)

## Works with our summary in our library (30)

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

1. [**Experts, Errors, and Context: A Large-Scale Study of Human Evaluation for Machine Translation**Markus Freitag, George Foster, David Grangier, et al.*2021 · 660 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/freitag-2021-experts-errors-context-large-scale/)
2. **[Sparse, Dense, and Attentional Representations for Text Retrieval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/luan-2021-sparse-dense-attentional-representations-text/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Yi Luan, Jacob Eisenstein, Kristina Toutanova, et al.*2021 · 501 citations*
3. **[Quality at a Glance: An Audit of Web-Crawled Multilingual Datasets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kreutzer-2021-quality-glance-audit-web-crawled/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Julia Kreutzer, Isaac Caswell, Lisa Wang, et al.*2021 · 447 citations*
4. **[MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adelani-2021-masakhaner-named-entity-recognition-african/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jade Abbott, Graham Neubig, et al.*2021 · 429 citations*
5. **[Gender Bias in Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/savoldi-2021-gender-bias-machine-translation/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Beatrice Savoldi, Marco Gaido, Luisa Bentivogli, et al.*2021 · 310 citations*
6. **[PAQ: 65 Million Probably-Asked Questions and What You Can Do With Them](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lewis-2021-paq-65-million-probably-asked/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Patrick Lewis, Yuxiang Wu, Linqing Liu, et al.*2021 · 286 citations*
7. **[Amnesic Probing: Behavioral Explanation with Amnesic Counterfactuals](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elazar-2021-amnesic-probing-behavioral-explanation-amnesic/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Yanai Elazar, Shauli Ravfogel, Alon Jacovi, et al.*2021 · 241 citations*
8. **[Compressing Large-Scale Transformer-Based Models: A Case Study on BERT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ganesh-2021-compressing-large-scale-transformer-based/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Prakhar Ganesh, Yao Chen, Xin Lou, et al.*2021 · 189 citations*
9. **[Planning with Learned Entity Prompts for Abstractive Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/narayan-2021-planning-learned-entity-prompts-abstractive/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Shashi Narayan, Yao Zhao, Joshua Maynez, et al.*2021 · 180 citations*
10. **[On Generative Spoken Language Modeling from Raw Audio](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lakhotia-2021-generative-spoken-language-modeling-raw/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Kushal Lakhotia, Eugene Kharitonov, Wei-Ning Hsu, et al.*2021 · 166 citations*
11. **[Extractive Opinion Summarization in Quantized Transformer Spaces](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/angelidis-2021-extractive-opinion-summarization-quantized-transformer/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Stefanos Angelidis, Reinald Kim Amplayo, Yoshihiko Suhara, et al.*2021 · 151 citations*
12. **[Towards Question-Answering as an Automatic Metric for Evaluating the Content Quality of a Summary](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/deutsch-2021-question-answering-as-automatic-metric/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Daniel Deutsch, Tania Bedrax-Weiss, Dan Roth*2021 · 148 citations*
13. **[Decontextualization: Making Sentences Stand-Alone](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/choi-2021-decontextualization-making-sentences-stand-alone/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Eunsol Choi, Jennimaria Palomaki, Matthew Lamm, et al.*2021 · 133 citations*
14. **[Quantifying Social Biases in NLP: A Generalization and Empirical Comparison of Extrinsic Fairness Metrics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/czarnowska-2021-quantifying-social-biases-nlp-generalization/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Paula Czarnowska, Yogarshi Vyas, Kashif Shah*2021 · 131 citations*
15. **[Aligning Faithful Interpretations with their Social Attribution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jacovi-2021-aligning-faithful-interpretations-their-social/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Alon Jacovi, Yoav Goldberg*2021 · 119 citations*
16. **[Relevance-guided Supervision for OpenQA with ColBERT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/khattab-2021-relevance-guided-supervision-openqa-colbert/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Omar Khattab, Christopher Potts, Matei Zaharia*2021 · 117 citations*
17. **[A Statistical Analysis of Summarization Evaluation Metrics Using Resampling Methods](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/deutsch-2021-statistical-analysis-summarization-evaluation-metrics/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Daniel Deutsch, Rotem Dror, Dan Roth*2021 · 115 citations*
18. **[Data-to-text Generation with Macro Planning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/puduppully-2021-data-text-generation-macro-planning/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Ratish Puduppully, Mirella Lapata*2021 · 98 citations*
19. **[QED: A Framework and Dataset for Explanations in Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lamm-2021-qed-framework-dataset-explanations-question/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Matthew Lamm, Jennimaria Palomaki, Chris Alberti, et al.*2021 · 91 citations*
20. **[Provable Limitations of Acquiring Meaning from Ungrounded Form: What Will Future Language Models Understand?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/merrill-2021-provable-limitations-acquiring-meaning-ungrounded/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**William Merrill, Yoav Goldberg, Roy Schwartz, et al.*2021 · 89 citations*
21. **[Idiomatic Expression Identification using Semantic Compatibility](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zeng-2021-idiomatic-expression-identification-semantic-compatibility/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Ziheng Zeng, Suma Bhat*2021 · 75 citations*
22. [**Weisfeiler-Leman in the Bamboo: Novel AMR Graph Metrics and a Benchmark for AMR Graph Similarity**Juri Opitz, Angel Daza, Anette Frank*2021 · 47 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/opitz-2021-weisfeiler-leman-bamboo-novel-amr/)
23. [**Neural Modeling for Named Entities and Morphology (NEMO2)**Dan Bareket, Reut Tsarfaty*2021 · 32 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bareket-2021-neural-modeling-named-entities-morphology/)
24. [**Deciphering Undersegmented Ancient Scripts Using Phonetic Prior**Jiaming Luo, Frederik Hartmann, Enrico Santus, et al.*2021 · 29 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/luo-2021-deciphering-undersegmented-ancient-scripts-phonetic/)
25. [**Recursive Non-Autoregressive Graph-to-Graph Transformer for Dependency Parsing with Iterative Refinement**Alireza Mohammadshahi, James Henderson*2021 · 26 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mohammadshahi-2021-recursive-non-autoregressive-graph-graph/)

[See all 30 works in Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2021 — papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2021/works/)

## Top topics

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

[Machine translation (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Summarization (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [English (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Language models & pretraining (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Question answering (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Text generation (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) · [Information retrieval & search (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Semantic parsing & meaning representation (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/) · [Bias, fairness & safety (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Named entity recognition (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Speech act theory (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [Dependency parsing (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/) · [Universal Dependencies (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/universal-dependencies/) · [Dialogue systems (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/)

**8 more topics**

[Speech & spoken language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Morphology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Hebrew & Aramaic (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/) · [Semitic languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Interpretability (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [Efficient models & compression (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/) · [Modern Hebrew (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/modern-hebrew/)

## Fields

[Computer Science (30)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities (29)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Social Sciences (2)](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.

[🧑‍🔬**Michael Collins**3 works here · 725 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-collins/) · [🧑‍🔬**Yoav Goldberg**3 works here · 449 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoav-goldberg/) · [🧑‍🔬**Julia Kreutzer**2 works here · 876 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julia-kreutzer/) · [🧑‍🔬**Alon Jacovi**2 works here · 360 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alon-jacovi/) · [🧑‍🔬**Dan Roth**2 works here · 263 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-roth/) · [🧑‍🔬**Daniel Deutsch**2 works here · 263 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-deutsch/) · [🧑‍🔬**Mirella Lapata**2 works here · 249 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mirella-lapata/) · [🧑‍🔬**Eunsol Choi**2 works here · 224 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eunsol-choi/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jennimaria Palomaki**2 works here · 224 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jennimaria-palomaki/) · [🧑‍🔬**Matthew Lamm**2 works here · 224 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-lamm/) · [🧑‍🔬**David Grangier**1 work here · 660 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-grangier/) · [🧑‍🔬**George Foster**1 work here · 660 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/george-foster/)

## Top institutions

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

[🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 9 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**Bar-Ilan University** Ramat Gan · Israel 4 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bar-ilan-university/) · [🔬**Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence** Seattle · United States 4 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/allen-institute-for-artificial-intelligence/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 4 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🔬**Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique** Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt · France 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/institut-national-de-recherche-en-sciences-et-technologies-du-numerique/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🎓**University of Waterloo** Waterloo · Canada 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-waterloo/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**University of Ibadan** Ibadan · Nigeria 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-ibadan/) · [🎓**Constructor University** Bremen · Germany 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/constructor-university/) · [🏢**Meta** Menlo Park · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/meta/) · [🏢**Google (Canada)** Waterloo · Canada 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-canada/)

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