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ACL 2016 — accepted papers

ACL 2016 is the 2016 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), held in Berlin, Germany, August 2016 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 364 papers of it in 4 tracks; our library holds 50 with our summaries. Below: its awards, the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

 364papers in the proceedings 50works in our library 26,624citations of these works Berlin, Germanywhere it was held August 2016when

Tracks

Long Papers231Short Papers97Main28Tutorial Abstracts8

Awards

As the ACL Anthology records them.

  1. Neural Machine Translation of Rare Words with Subword UnitsRico Sennrich, Barry Haddow, Alexandra Birch · Long Papers · 🏆 ACL 2026 Test of Time Award536 citations · our summary

Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

  1. End-to-end Sequence Labeling via Bi-directional LSTM-CNNs-CRFXuezhe Ma, Eduard Hovy · Long Papers2,499 citations
  2. Attention-Based Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Relation ClassificationPeng Zhou, Wei Shi, Jun Tian et al. · Short Papers2,012 citations · our summary
  3. Incorporating Copying Mechanism in Sequence-to-Sequence LearningJiatao Gu, Zhengdong Lu, Hang Li et al. · Long Papers1,446 citations · our summary
  4. End-to-End Relation Extraction using LSTMs on Sequences and Tree StructuresMakoto Miwa, Mohit Bansal · Long Papers1,322 citations · our summary
  5. Neural Relation Extraction with Selective Attention over InstancesYankai Lin, Shiqi Shen, Zhiyuan Liu et al. · Long Papers1,021 citations
  6. Diachronic Word Embeddings Reveal Statistical Laws of Semantic ChangeWilliam L. Hamilton, Jure Leskovec, Dan Jurafsky · Long Papers943 citations · our summary
  7. A Persona-Based Neural Conversation ModelJiwei Li, Michel Galley, Chris Brockett et al. · Long Papers871 citations
  8. Neural Summarization by Extracting Sentences and WordsJianpeng Cheng, Mirella Lapata · Long Papers790 citations · our summary
  9. Summarizing Source Code using a Neural Attention ModelSrinivasan Iyer, Ioannis Konstas, Alvin Cheung et al. · Long Papers701 citations
  10. Modeling Coverage for Neural Machine TranslationZhaopeng Tu, Zhengdong Lu, Yang Liu et al. · Long Papers692 citations · our summary

All accepted papers (364)

The most cited first; 50 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

  1. End-to-end Sequence Labeling via Bi-directional LSTM-CNNs-CRFXuezhe Ma, Eduard Hovy · Long Papers2,499 citations
  2. Attention-Based Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Relation ClassificationPeng Zhou, Wei Shi, Jun Tian et al. · Short Papers2,012 citations · our summary
  3. Incorporating Copying Mechanism in Sequence-to-Sequence LearningJiatao Gu, Zhengdong Lu, Hang Li et al. · Long Papers1,446 citations · our summary
  4. End-to-End Relation Extraction using LSTMs on Sequences and Tree StructuresMakoto Miwa, Mohit Bansal · Long Papers1,322 citations · our summary
  5. Neural Relation Extraction with Selective Attention over InstancesYankai Lin, Shiqi Shen, Zhiyuan Liu et al. · Long Papers1,021 citations
  6. Diachronic Word Embeddings Reveal Statistical Laws of Semantic ChangeWilliam L. Hamilton, Jure Leskovec, Dan Jurafsky · Long Papers943 citations · our summary
  7. A Persona-Based Neural Conversation ModelJiwei Li, Michel Galley, Chris Brockett et al. · Long Papers871 citations
  8. Neural Summarization by Extracting Sentences and WordsJianpeng Cheng, Mirella Lapata · Long Papers790 citations · our summary
  9. Summarizing Source Code using a Neural Attention ModelSrinivasan Iyer, Ioannis Konstas, Alvin Cheung et al. · Long Papers701 citations
  10. Modeling Coverage for Neural Machine TranslationZhaopeng Tu, Zhengdong Lu, Yang Liu et al. · Long Papers692 citations · our summary
  11. Language to Logical Form with Neural AttentionLi Dong, Mirella Lapata · Long Papers690 citations · our summary
  12. Dimensional Sentiment Analysis Using a Regional CNN-LSTM ModelJin Wang, Liang-Chih Yu, K. Robert Lai et al. · Short Papers584 citations
  13. Harnessing Deep Neural Networks with Logic RulesZhiting Hu, Xuezhe Ma, Zhengzhong Liu et al. · Long Papers545 citations · our summary
  14. Neural Machine Translation of Rare Words with Subword UnitsRico Sennrich, Barry Haddow, Alexandra Birch · Long Papers · 🏆 ACL 2026 Test of Time Award536 citations · our summary
  15. A Thorough Examination of the CNN/Daily Mail Reading Comprehension TaskDanqi Chen, Jason Bolton, Christopher D. Manning · Long Papers491 citations · our summary
  16. Relation Classification via Multi-Level Attention CNNsLinlin Wang, Zhu Cao, Gerard de Melo et al. · Long Papers487 citations · our summary
  17. Pointing the Unknown WordsCaglar Gulcehre, Sungjin Ahn, Ramesh Nallapati et al. · Long Papers478 citations · our summary
  18. Globally Normalized Transition-Based Neural NetworksDaniel Andor, Chris Alberti, David Weiss et al. · Long Papers472 citations · our summary
  19. The Value of Semantic Parse Labeling for Knowledge Base Question AnsweringWen-tau Yih, Matthew Richardson, Chris Meek et al. · Short Papers461 citations · our summary
  20. Deep multi-task learning with low level tasks supervised at lower layersAnders Søgaard, Yoav Goldberg · Short Papers445 citations · our summary
  21. Data Recombination for Neural Semantic ParsingRobin Jia, Percy Liang · Long Papers434 citations
  22. Minimum Risk Training for Neural Machine TranslationShiqi Shen, Yong Cheng, Zhongjun He et al. · Long Papers375 citations · our summary
  23. TransG : A Generative Model for Knowledge Graph EmbeddingHan Xiao, Minlie Huang, Xiaoyan Zhu · Long Papers356 citations
  24. Achieving Open Vocabulary Neural Machine Translation with Hybrid Word-Character ModelsMinh-Thang Luong, Christopher D. Manning · Long Papers345 citations · our summary
  25. Natural Language Inference by Tree-Based Convolution and Heuristic MatchingLili Mou, Rui Men, Ge Li et al. · Short Papers332 citations · our summary

See all 364 papers in ACL 2016 — accepted papers →

 Papers with our summary in our library (50)

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

  1. Neural Machine Translation of Rare Words with Subword UnitsRico Sennrich, Barry Haddow, Alexandra Birch2016 · 3,980 citations
  2. Attention-Based Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Relation ClassificationPeng Zhou, Wei Shi, Jun Tian, et al.2016 · 2,218 citations
  3. Incorporating Copying Mechanism in Sequence-to-Sequence LearningJiatao Gu, Zhengdong Lu, Hang Li, et al.2016 · 1,904 citations
  4. End-to-End Relation Extraction using LSTMs on Sequences and Tree StructuresMakoto Miwa, Mohit Bansal2016 · 1,603 citations
  5. Diachronic Word Embeddings Reveal Statistical Laws of Semantic ChangeWilliam L. Hamilton, Jure Leskovec, Dan Jurafsky2016 · 1,273 citations
  6. Neural Summarization by Extracting Sentences and WordsJianpeng Cheng, Mirella Lapata2016 · 1,004 citations
  7. Language to Logical Form with Neural AttentionLi Dong, Mirella Lapata2016 · 948 citations
  8. Modeling Coverage for Neural Machine TranslationZhaopeng Tu, Zhengdong Lu, Yang Liu, et al.2016 · 934 citations
  9. The Value of Semantic Parse Labeling for Knowledge Base Question AnsweringWen-tau Yih, Matthew Richardson, Chris Meek, et al.2016 · 716 citations
  10. A Thorough Examination of the CNN/Daily Mail Reading Comprehension TaskDanqi Chen, Jason Bolton, Christopher D. Manning2016 · 691 citations
  11. Globally Normalized Transition-Based Neural NetworksDaniel Andor, Chris Alberti, David Weiss, et al.2016 · 679 citations
  12. Pointing the Unknown WordsCaglar Gulcehre, Sungjin Ahn, Ramesh Nallapati, et al.2016 · 644 citations
  13. Harnessing Deep Neural Networks with Logic RulesZhiting Hu, Xuezhe Ma, Zhengzhong Liu, et al.2016 · 619 citations
  14. Deep multi-task learning with low level tasks supervised at lower layersAnders Søgaard, Yoav Goldberg2016 · 586 citations
  15. Relation Classification via Multi-Level Attention CNNsLinlin Wang, Zhu Cao, Gerard de Melo, et al.2016 · 576 citations
  16. The Social Impact of Natural Language ProcessingDirk Hovy, Shannon L. Spruit2016 · 518 citations
  17. The LAMBADA dataset: Word prediction requiring a broad discourse contextDenis Paperno, Germán Kruszewski, Angeliki Lazaridou, et al.2016 · 511 citations
  18. Achieving Open Vocabulary Neural Machine Translation with Hybrid Word-Character ModelsMinh-Thang Luong, Christopher D. Manning2016 · 471 citations
  19. Natural Language Inference by Tree-Based Convolution and Heuristic MatchingLili Mou, Rui Men, Ge Li, et al.2016 · 427 citations
  20. Improving Coreference Resolution by Learning Entity-Level Distributed RepresentationsKevin Clark, Christopher D. Manning2016 · 422 citations
  21. A Character-level Decoder without Explicit Segmentation for Neural Machine TranslationJunyoung Chung, Kyunghyun Cho, Yoshua Bengio2016 · 411 citations
  22. Text Understanding with the Attention Sum Reader NetworkRudolf Kadlec, Martin Schmid, Ondrej Bajgar, et al.2016 · 382 citations
  23. Question Answering on Freebase via Relation Extraction and Textual EvidenceKun Xu, Siva Reddy, Yansong Feng, et al.2016 · 359 citations
  24. Generating Natural Questions About an ImageNasrin Mostafazadeh, Ishan Misra, Jacob Devlin, et al.2016 · 340 citations
  25. The Creation and Analysis of a Website Privacy Policy CorpusShomir Wilson, Florian Schaub, Aswarth Abhilash Dara, et al.2016 · 336 citations

See all 50 works in ACL 2016 — accepted papers →

 Top topics

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

Machine translation (6)Coreference resolution (4)Information extraction (4)Question answering (3)Discourse analysis (2)Semantic role labeling (2)Summarization (2)Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (2)Reasoning (2)Knowledge graphs & ontologies (2)English (2)Speech act theory (1)Universal Dependencies (1)Part-of-speech tagging (1)Sentiment & emotion (1)

9 more topics

Dialogue systems (1)Lexical semantics & word embeddings (1)Evaluation & benchmarks (1)Syntax & grammar formalisms (1)Semantic parsing & meaning representation (1)Tokenization & segmentation (1)Grammatical error correction & learner language (1)Idioms & multiword expressions (1)Historical linguistics & language change (1)

 Fields

Computer Science (49)Arts and Humanities (46)Social Sciences (3)Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (1)Psychology (1)

 Top authors

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

🧑‍🔬Mirella Lapata3 works here · 2,204 citations🧑‍🔬Christopher D. Manning3 works here · 1,584 citations🧑‍🔬Yoav Goldberg3 works here · 1,107 citations🧑‍🔬Hang Li2 works here · 2,838 citations🧑‍🔬Zhengdong Lu2 works here · 2,838 citations🧑‍🔬Yang Liu2 works here · 1,097 citations🧑‍🔬Yoshua Bengio2 works here · 1,055 citations🧑‍🔬Eduard Hovy2 works here · 955 citations🧑‍🔬Anders Søgaard2 works here · 788 citations🧑‍🔬Helen Yannakoudakis2 works here · 411 citations🧑‍🔬Marek Rei2 works here · 411 citations🧑‍🔬Alexandra Birch1 work here · 3,980 citations

 Top institutions

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

🎓University of EdinburghEdinburgh · United Kingdom6 works here🎓Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh · United States5 works here🎓Stanford UniversityStanford · United States5 works here🎓University of CopenhagenCopenhagen · Denmark3 works here🏢MicrosoftRedmond · United States2 works here🏢GoogleMountain View · United States2 works here🎓Bar-Ilan UniversityRamat Gan · Israel2 works here🎓Toyota Technological Institute at ChicagoChicago · United States2 works here🎓Peking UniversityBeijing · China2 works here🎓Charles UniversityPrague · Czechia2 works here🎓University of CambridgeCambridge · United Kingdom2 works here🎓Université de MontréalMontreal · Canada2 works here

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