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1. PPDB: The Paraphrase DatabaseJuri Ganitkevitch, Benjamin Van Durme, Chris Callison-BurchMachine translation · 967 citations
2. Gender Bias in Coreference ResolutionConference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)Rachel Rudinger, Jason Naradowsky, Brian Leonard, et al.2018 · 864 citations
3. Hypothesis Only Baselines in Natural Language InferenceJoint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)Adam Poliak, Jason Naradowsky, Aparajita Haldar, et al.2018 · 857 citations
4. What do you learn from context? Probing for sentence structure in contextualized word representationsarXiv:1905.06316Ian Tenney, Patrick Xia, Berlin Chen, et al.2019 · 602 citations
5. PPDB 2.0: Better paraphrase ranking, fine-grained entailment relations, word embeddings, and style classificationEllie Pavlick, Pushpendre Rastogi, Juri Ganitkevitch, et al.Machine translation · 415 citations
6. ReCoRD: Bridging the Gap between Human and Machine Commonsense Reading ComprehensionarXiv:1810.12885Sheng Zhang, Xiaodong Liu, Jingjing Liu, et al.2018 · 388 citations
7. Multi-Sentence Argument LinkingAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Seth Ebner, Patrick Xia, Ryan Culkin, et al.2020 · 281 citations
8. Open Domain Targeted SentimentConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Margaret Mitchell, Jacqui Aguilar, Theresa Wilson, et al.2013 · 270 citations
9. Constrained Language Models Yield Few-Shot Semantic Parsers ↗Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yetRichard Shin et al.2021 · 238 citations
10. AMR Parsing as Sequence-to-Graph Transduction ↗Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yetSheng Zhang et al.2019 · 217 citations
11. Contrastive Preference Optimization: Pushing the Boundaries of LLM Performance in Machine TranslationarXiv:2401.08417Haoran Xu, Amr Sharaf, Yunmo Chen, et al.2024 · 212 citations
12. Universal Decompositional Semantics on Universal DependenciesAaron Steven White, Drew Reisinger, Keisuke Sakaguchi, et al.English · 208 citations
13. Improved Lexically Constrained Decoding for Translation and Monolingual RewritingConference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)J. Edward Hu, Huda Khayrallah, Ryan Culkin, et al.2019 · 199 citations
14. Collecting Diverse Natural Language Inference Problems for Sentence Representation EvaluationConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Adam Poliak, Aparajita Haldar, Rachel Rudinger, et al.2018 · 193 citations
15. Ordinal Common-sense InferenceTransactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)Sheng Zhang, Rachel Rudinger, Kevin Duh, et al.2017 · 193 citations
16. Social Bias in Elicited Natural Language InferencesACL Workshop on Ethics in Natural Language ProcessingRachel Rudinger, Chandler May, Benjamin Van Durme2017 · 170 citations
17. Annotated GigawordProceedings of the Joint Workshop on Automatic Knowledge Base Construction and Web-scale Knowledge Extraction (AKBC-WEKEX)Courtney Napoles, Matthew Gormley, Benjamin Van Durme2012 · 164 citations
18. Probing What Different NLP Tasks Teach Machines about Function Word ComprehensionJoint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)Najoung Kim, Roma Patel, Adam Poliak, et al.2019 · 163 citations
19. Can GPT-3 Perform Statutory Reasoning?arXiv:2302.06100Andrew Blair-Stanek, Nils Holzenberger, Benjamin Van Durme2023 · 154 citations
20. Can You Tell Me How to Get Past Sesame Street? Sentence-Level Pretraining Beyond Language Modeling ↗Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yetAlex Wang et al.2019 · 154 citations
21. Script Induction as Language Modeling ↗Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yetRachel Rudinger et al.2015 · 141 citations
22. A Comparison of the Events and Relations Across ACE, ERE, TAC-KBP, and FrameNet Annotation StandardsWorkshop on EVENTS: Definition, Detection, Coreference, and RepresentationJacqueline Aguilar, Charley Beller, Paul McNamee, et al.2014 · 136 citations
23. Broad-Coverage Semantic Parsing as TransductionConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Sheng Zhang, Xutai Ma, Kevin Duh, et al.2019 · 124 citations
24. Don't Take the Premise for Granted: Mitigating Artifacts in Natural Language InferenceAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Yonatan Belinkov, Adam Poliak, Stuart Shieber, et al.2019 · 123 citations
25. Neural Models of FactualityRachel Rudinger, Aaron Steven White, Benjamin Van DurmeEnglish · 112 citations
26. Semantic Proto-RolesTransactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)Drew Reisinger, Rachel Rudinger, Francis Ferraro, et al.2015 · 112 citations
27. Inference is Everything: Recasting Semantic Resources into a Unified Evaluation FrameworkAaron Steven White, Pushpendre Rastogi, Kevin Duh, et al.English · 110 citations
28. Uncertain Natural Language InferenceAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Tongfei Chen, Zhengping Jiang, Adam Poliak, et al.2020 · 107 citations
29. Efficient Elicitation of Annotations for Human Evaluation of Machine Translation ↗Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation · no summary yetKeisuke Sakaguchi, Matt Post, Benjamin Van Durme2014 · 101 citations
30. On Adversarial Removal of Hypothesis-only Bias in Natural Language InferenceJoint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)Yonatan Belinkov, Adam Poliak, Stuart Shieber, et al.2019 · 96 citations
31. Learning Sentential Paraphrases from Bilingual Parallel Corpora for Text-to-Text Generation ↗Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yetJuri Ganitkevitch et al.2011 · 95 citations
32. Fine-Grained Temporal Relation Extraction ↗Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yetSiddharth Vashishtha, Benjamin Van Durme, Aaron Steven White2019 · 93 citations
33. Large-Scale, Diverse, Paraphrastic Bitexts via Sampling and Clustering ↗Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) · no summary yetJ. Edward Hu et al.2019 · 90 citations
34. LLM-Rubric: A Multidimensional, Calibrated Approach to Automated Evaluation of Natural Language TextsAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Helia Hashemi, Jason Eisner, Corby Rosset, et al.2024 · 88 citations
35. BERT, mBERT, or BiBERT? A Study on Contextualized Embeddings for Neural Machine Translation ↗Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yetHaoran Xu, Benjamin Van Durme, Kenton Murray2021 · 84 citations
36. Adding Semantics to Data-Driven Paraphrasing ↗Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yetEllie Pavlick et al.2015 · 81 citations
37. SemStamp: A Semantic Watermark with Paraphrastic Robustness for Text Generation ↗Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yetAbe Hou et al.2024 · 77 citations
38. Guided Generation of Cause and Effect ↗arXiv:2107.09846 · no summary yetZhongyang Li et al.2020 · 76 citations
39. FrameNet+: Fast Paraphrastic Tripling of FrameNetAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Ellie Pavlick, Travis Wolfe, Pushpendre Rastogi, et al.2015 · 75 citations
40. A Dataset for Statutory Reasoning in Tax Law Entailment and Question Answering ↗arXiv:2005.05257 · no summary yetNils Holzenberger, Andrew Blair-Stanek, Benjamin Van Durme2020 · 73 citations
41. Few-Shot Semantic Parsing with Language Models Trained on CodeConference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)Richard Shin, Benjamin Van Durme2022 · 72 citations
42. Hierarchical Entity Typing via Multi-level Learning to Rank ↗Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yetTongfei Chen, Yunmo Chen, Benjamin Van Durme2020 · 70 citations
43. ParaBank: Monolingual Bitext Generation and Sentential Paraphrasing via Lexically-constrained Neural Machine Translation ↗arXiv:1901.03644 · no summary yetJ. Edward Hu et al.2019 · 66 citations
44. Compressed Chain of Thought: Efficient Reasoning Through Dense Representations ↗arXiv:2412.13171 · no summary yetJeffrey Cheng, Benjamin Van Durme2024 · 60 citations
45. mmBERT: A Modern Multilingual Encoder with Annealed Language LearningarXiv:2509.06888Marc Marone, Orion Weller, William Fleshman, et al.2025 · 59 citations
46. Temporal Reasoning in Natural Language InferenceSiddharth Vashishtha, Adam Poliak, Yash Kumar Lal, et al.English · 59 citations
47. Incremental Neural Coreference Resolution in Constant MemoryPatrick Xia, João Sedoc, Benjamin Van DurmeEnglish · 55 citations
48. On the Evaluation of Semantic Phenomena in Neural Machine Translation Using Natural Language Inference ↗Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers) · no summary yetAdam Poliak et al.2018 · 52 citations
49. Moving on from OntoNotes: Coreference Resolution Model Transfer ↗Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yetPatrick Xia, Benjamin Van Durme2021 · 49 citations
50. “According to . . . “: Prompting Language Models Improves Quoting from Pre-Training DataConference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)Orion Weller, Marc Marone, Nathaniel Weir, et al.2024 · 46 citations
51. Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2015) ↗The Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yetEllie Pavlick et al.2015 · 42 citations
52. FollowIR: Evaluating and Teaching Information Retrieval Models to Follow InstructionsConference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)Orion Weller, Benjamin Chang, Sean MacAvaney, et al.2025 · 40 citations
53. Paraphrastic Sentence Compression with a Character-based Metric: Tightening without Deletion ↗Proceedings of the Workshop on Monolingual Text-To-Text Generation · no summary yetCourtney Napoles et al.2011 · 36 citations
54. Adapting Coreference Resolution Models through Active LearningAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Michelle Yuan, Patrick Xia, Chandler May, et al.2022 · 35 citations
55. Looking for ELMo's friends: Sentence-Level Pretraining Beyond Language Modeling. ↗no summary yetSamuel R. Bowman et al.2018 · 34 citations
56. Factoring Statutory Reasoning as Language Understanding Challenges ↗Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yetNils Holzenberger, Benjamin Van Durme2021 · 33 citations
57. CLERC: A Dataset for U. S. Legal Case Retrieval and Retrieval-Augmented Analysis Generation ↗Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025 · no summary yetAbe Bohan Hou et al.2025 · 29 citations
58. CLERC: A Dataset for Legal Case Retrieval and Retrieval-Augmented Analysis Generation ↗arXiv:2406.17186 · no summary yetAbe Bohan Hou et al.2024 · 21 citations
59. The Universal Decompositional Semantics Dataset and Decomp ToolkitLanguage Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)Aaron Steven White, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Siddharth Vashishtha, et al.2020 · 18 citations
60. BLT: Can Large Language Models Handle Basic Legal Text? ↗Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2024 · no summary yetAndrew Blair-Stanek, Nils Holzenberger, Benjamin Van Durme2024 · 17 citations
61. Augmenting FrameNet Via PPDBWorkshop on EVENTS: Definition, Detection, Coreference, and RepresentationPushpendre Rastogi, Benjamin Van Durme2014 · 17 citations
62. Joint Universal Syntactic and Semantic ParsingTransactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)Elias Stengel-Eskin, Kenton Murray, Sheng Zhang, et al.2021 · 16 citations
63. Domain-Specific Paraphrase Extraction ↗Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers) · no summary yetEllie Pavlick et al.2015 · 16 citations
64. Zero and Few-shot Semantic Parsing with Ambiguous InputsarXiv:2306.00824Elias Stengel-Eskin, Kyle Rawlins, Benjamin Van Durme2023 · 15 citations
65. Connecting Symbolic Statutory Reasoning with Legal Information Extraction ↗Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2023 · no summary yetNils Holzenberger, Benjamin Van Durme2023 · 14 citations
66. LLMs Provide Unstable Answers to Legal Questions ↗arXiv:2502.05196 · no summary yetAndrew Blair-Stanek, Benjamin Van Durme2025 · 13 citations
67. Is That Your Final Answer? Test-Time Scaling Improves Selective Question AnsweringAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)William Jurayj, Jeffrey Cheng, Benjamin Van Durme2025 · 11 citations
68. Gaps or Hallucinations? Scrutinizing Machine-Generated Legal Analysis for Fine-grained Text Evaluations ↗Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2024 · no summary yetAbe Hou et al.2024 · 11 citations
69. Multilingual Coreference Resolution in Multiparty DialogueTransactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)Boyuan Zheng, Patrick Xia, Mahsa Yarmohammadi, et al.2023 · 11 citations
70. Enhancing Systematic Decompositional Natural Language Inference Using Informal LogicConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Nathaniel Weir, Kate Sanders, Orion Weller, et al.2024 · 7 citations
71. Evaluating Paraphrastic Robustness in Textual Entailment Models ↗Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · no summary yetDhruv Verma et al.2023 · 7 citations
72. WikiVideo: Article Generation from Multiple VideosFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsAlexander Martin, Reno Kriz, William Gantt Walden, et al.2026 · 5 citations
73. Reframing Tax Law Entailment as Analogical Reasoning ↗arXiv:2401.06715 · no summary yetXinrui Zou; Ming Zhang; Nathaniel Weir; Benjamin Van Durme;, Nils Holzenberger2024 · 5 citations
74. Iterative Paraphrastic Augmentation with Discriminative Span Alignment ↗Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yetRyan Culkin et al.2021 · 5 citations
75. Generative Adapter: Contextualizing Language Models in Parameters with A Single Forward Pass ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetTong Chen et al.2024 · 4 citations
76. Gaps or Hallucinations? Gazing into Machine-Generated Legal Analysis for Fine-grained Text Evaluations ↗arXiv:2409.09947 · no summary yetAbe Bohan Hou et al.2024 · 4 citations
77. Predicting the Argumenthood of English Prepositional PhrasesProceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial IntelligenceNajoung Kim, Kyle Rawlins, Benjamin Van Durme, et al.2018 · 4 citations
78. Building a Semantic Lexicon of English Nouns via Bootstrapping ↗Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Student Research Workshop and Doctoral Consortium · no summary yetTing Qian, Benjamin Van Durme, Lenhart Schubert2009 · 4 citations
79. arXiv2Table: Toward Realistic Benchmarking and Evaluation for LLM-Based Literature-Review Table GenerationAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Weiqi Wang, Jiefu Ou, Yangqiu Song, et al.2026 · 1 citation
80. Synthetic Function Demonstrations Improve Generation in Low-Resource Programming LanguagesLanguage Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)Nick McKenna, Xinnuo Xu, Jack Williams, et al.2026 · 1 citation
81. DeonticBench: A Benchmark for Reasoning over Rules ↗arXiv:2604.04443 · no summary yetGuangyao Dou et al.2026 · 1 citation
82. Mining Legal Arguments in U.S. Corporate Case Law ↗arXiv:2609.25441 · no summary yetLuis Brena et al.2026
83. TeleTune: Evolving Agent Skills From Offline Telemetry ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetJustin Chih-Yao Chen et al.2026
84. DAR: Deontic Reasoning with Agentic Harnesses ↗arXiv:2606.05009 · no summary yetGuangyao Dou et al.2026

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