📰 EMNLP 2015 — accepted papers

EMNLP 2015 is the 2015 edition of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), held in Lisbon, Portugal, September 2015 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 320 papers of it in 2 tracks; our library holds 43 with our summaries. Below: its awards, the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

Tracks

Main312Tutorial Abstracts8

Awards

As the ACL Anthology records them.

1. Effective Approaches to Attention-based Neural Machine TranslationThang Luong, Hieu Pham, Christopher D. Manning · 🏆 ACL 2025 Test of Time Award8,156 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. Effective Approaches to Attention-based Neural Machine TranslationThang Luong, Hieu Pham, Christopher D. Manning · 🏆 ACL 2025 Test of Time Award8,156 citations · our summary
2. A large annotated corpus for learning natural language inferenceSamuel R. Bowman, Gabor Angeli, Christopher Potts et al.3,291 citations
3. A Neural Attention Model for Abstractive Sentence SummarizationAlexander M. Rush, Sumit Chopra, Jason Weston2,656 citations
4. Document Modeling with Gated Recurrent Neural Network for Sentiment ClassificationDuyu Tang, Bing Qin, Ting Liu1,519 citations · our summary
5. Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction via Piecewise Convolutional Neural NetworksDaojian Zeng, Kang Liu, Yubo Chen et al.1,149 citations
6. Semantically Conditioned LSTM-based Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue SystemsTsung-Hsien Wen, Milica Gašić, Nikola Mrkšić et al.874 citations · our summary
7. WikiQA: A Challenge Dataset for Open-Domain Question AnsweringYi Yang, Wen-tau Yih, Christopher Meek811 citations · our summary
8. Representing Text for Joint Embedding of Text and Knowledge BasesKristina Toutanova, Danqi Chen, Patrick Pantel et al.750 citations · our summary
9. Classifying Relations via Long Short Term Memory Networks along Shortest Dependency PathsYan Xu, Lili Mou, Ge Li et al.653 citations · our summary
10. Modeling Relation Paths for Representation Learning of Knowledge BasesYankai Lin, Zhiyuan Liu, Huanbo Luan et al.632 citations · our summary

All accepted papers (320)

The most cited first; 43 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. Effective Approaches to Attention-based Neural Machine TranslationThang Luong, Hieu Pham, Christopher D. Manning · 🏆 ACL 2025 Test of Time Award8,156 citations · our summary
2. A large annotated corpus for learning natural language inferenceSamuel R. Bowman, Gabor Angeli, Christopher Potts et al.3,291 citations
3. A Neural Attention Model for Abstractive Sentence SummarizationAlexander M. Rush, Sumit Chopra, Jason Weston2,656 citations
4. Document Modeling with Gated Recurrent Neural Network for Sentiment ClassificationDuyu Tang, Bing Qin, Ting Liu1,519 citations · our summary
5. Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction via Piecewise Convolutional Neural NetworksDaojian Zeng, Kang Liu, Yubo Chen et al.1,149 citations
6. Semantically Conditioned LSTM-based Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue SystemsTsung-Hsien Wen, Milica Gašić, Nikola Mrkšić et al.874 citations · our summary
7. WikiQA: A Challenge Dataset for Open-Domain Question AnsweringYi Yang, Wen-tau Yih, Christopher Meek811 citations · our summary
8. Representing Text for Joint Embedding of Text and Knowledge BasesKristina Toutanova, Danqi Chen, Patrick Pantel et al.750 citations · our summary
9. Classifying Relations via Long Short Term Memory Networks along Shortest Dependency PathsYan Xu, Lili Mou, Ge Li et al.653 citations · our summary
10. Modeling Relation Paths for Representation Learning of Knowledge BasesYankai Lin, Zhiyuan Liu, Huanbo Luan et al.632 citations · our summary
11. An Improved Non-monotonic Transition System for Dependency ParsingMatthew Honnibal, Mark Johnson602 citations · our summary
12. Finding Function in Form: Compositional Character Models for Open Vocabulary Word RepresentationWang Ling, Chris Dyer, Alan W Black et al.541 citations
13. Evaluation methods for unsupervised word embeddingsTobias Schnabel, Igor Labutov, David Mimno et al.540 citations · our summary
14. Deep Convolutional Neural Network Textual Features and Multiple Kernel Learning for Utterance-level Multimodal Sentiment AnalysisSoujanya Poria, Erik Cambria, Alexander Gelbukh533 citations
15. Fine-grained Opinion Mining with Recurrent Neural Networks and Word EmbeddingsPengfei Liu, Shafiq Joty, Helen Meng489 citations · our summary
16. Named Entity Recognition for Chinese Social Media with Jointly Trained EmbeddingsNanyun Peng, Mark Dredze394 citations · our summary
17. ASTD: Arabic Sentiment Tweets DatasetMahmoud Nabil, Mohamed Aly, Amir Atiya387 citations · our summary
18. Multi-Perspective Sentence Similarity Modeling with Convolutional Neural NetworksHua He, Kevin Gimpel, Jimmy Lin378 citations · our summary
19. LCSTS: A Large Scale Chinese Short Text Summarization DatasetBaotian Hu, Qingcai Chen, Fangze Zhu316 citations
20. Traversing Knowledge Graphs in Vector SpaceKelvin Guu, John Miller, Percy Liang315 citations
21. That's So Annoying!!!: A Lexical and Frame-Semantic Embedding Based Data Augmentation Approach to Automatic Categorization of Annoying Behaviors using \#petpeeve TweetsWilliam Yang Wang, Diyi Yang312 citations · our summary
22. Improved Transition-based Parsing by Modeling Characters instead of Words with LSTMsMiguel Ballesteros, Chris Dyer, Noah A. Smith285 citations · our summary
23. Language Understanding for Text-based Games using Deep Reinforcement LearningKarthik Narasimhan, Tejas Kulkarni, Regina Barzilay285 citations
24. Long Short-Term Memory Neural Networks for Chinese Word SegmentationXinchi Chen, Xipeng Qiu, Chenxi Zhu et al.274 citations · our summary
25. Semantic Relation Classification via Convolutional Neural Networks with Simple Negative SamplingKun Xu, Yansong Feng, Songfang Huang et al.268 citations

See all 320 papers in EMNLP 2015 — accepted papers →

📄 Papers with our summary in our library (43)

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

1. Effective Approaches to Attention-based Neural Machine TranslationThang Luong, Hieu Pham, Christopher D. Manning2015 · 9,655 citations
2. Document Modeling with Gated Recurrent Neural Network for Sentiment ClassificationDuyu Tang, Bing Qin, Ting Liu2015 · 1,684 citations
3. Semantically Conditioned LSTM-based Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue SystemsTsung-Hsien Wen, Milica Gašić, Nikola Mrkšić, et al.2015 · 1,200 citations
4. WikiQA: A Challenge Dataset for Open-Domain Question AnsweringYi Yang, Wen-tau Yih, Christopher Meek2015 · 1,129 citations
5. Representing Text for Joint Embedding of Text and Knowledge BasesKristina Toutanova, Danqi Chen, Patrick Pantel, et al.2015 · 905 citations
6. Classifying Relations via Long Short Term Memory Networks along Shortest Dependency PathsYan Xu, Lili Mou, Ge Li, et al.2015 · 774 citations
7. An Improved Non-monotonic Transition System for Dependency ParsingMatthew Honnibal, Mark Johnson2015 · 751 citations
8. Modeling Relation Paths for Representation Learning of Knowledge BasesYankai Lin, Zhiyuan Liu, Huanbo Luan, et al.2015 · 698 citations
9. Evaluation methods for unsupervised word embeddingsTobias Schnabel, Igor Labutov, David Mimno, et al.2015 · 674 citations
10. Fine-grained Opinion Mining with Recurrent Neural Networks and Word EmbeddingsPengfei Liu, Shafiq Joty, Helen Meng2015 · 590 citations
11. Solving General Arithmetic Word ProblemsSubhro Roy, Dan Roth2015 · 580 citations
12. Named Entity Recognition for Chinese Social Media with Jointly Trained EmbeddingsNanyun Peng, Mark Dredze2015 · 483 citations
13. ASTD: Arabic Sentiment Tweets DatasetMahmoud Nabil, Mohamed Aly, Amir Atiya2015 · 470 citations
14. Multi-Perspective Sentence Similarity Modeling with Convolutional Neural NetworksHua He, Kevin Gimpel, Jimmy Lin2015 · 450 citations
15. Improved Transition-based Parsing by Modeling Characters instead of Words with LSTMsMiguel Ballesteros, Chris Dyer, Noah A. Smith2015 · 402 citations
16. That's So Annoying!!!: A Lexical and Frame-Semantic Embedding Based Data Augmentation Approach to Automatic Categorization of Annoying Behaviors using #petpeeve TweetsWilliam Yang Wang, Diyi Yang2015 · 395 citations
17. Sentence Compression by Deletion with LSTMsKatja Filippova, Enrique Alfonseca, Carlos A. Colmenares, et al.2015 · 338 citations
18. Long Short-Term Memory Neural Networks for Chinese Word SegmentationXinchi Chen, Xipeng Qiu, Chenxi Zhu, et al.2015 · 336 citations
19. Question-Answer Driven Semantic Role Labeling: Using Natural Language to Annotate Natural LanguageLuheng He, Mike Lewis, Luke Zettlemoyer2015 · 322 citations
20. Do Multi-Sense Embeddings Improve Natural Language Understanding?Jiwei Li, Dan Jurafsky2015 · 303 citations
21. Joint Mention Extraction and Classification with Mention HypergraphsWei Lu, Dan Roth2015 · 299 citations
22. Show Me Your Evidence - an Automatic Method for Context Dependent Evidence DetectionRuty Rinott, Lena Dankin, Carlos Alzate Perez, et al.2015 · 296 citations
23. When Are Tree Structures Necessary for Deep Learning of Representations?Jiwei Li, Thang Luong, Dan Jurafsky, et al.2015 · 266 citations
24. Humor Recognition and Humor Anchor ExtractionDiyi Yang, Alon Lavie, Chris Dyer, et al.2015 · 264 citations
25. Better Document-level Sentiment Analysis from RST Discourse ParsingParminder Bhatia, Yangfeng Ji, Jacob Eisenstein2015 · 235 citations

See all 43 works in EMNLP 2015 — accepted papers →

🧭 Top topics

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

🧵Discourse analysis (6)😊Sentiment & emotion (5)🔁Machine translation (3)📏Evaluation & benchmarks (3)Semitic languages (3)English (3)🔗Coreference resolution (2)🌳Dependency parsing (2)🎭Semantic role labeling (2)📝Summarization (2)🗨️Dialogue systems (2)🕸️Knowledge graphs & ontologies (2)🧾Semantic parsing & meaning representation (2)🏷️Named entity recognition (1)❓Question answering (1)

📚 Fields

🖥️Computer Science (42)🎭Arts and Humanities (41)💭Psychology (3)🧬Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (1)

🧑‍🔬 Top authors

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

🏛️ Top institutions

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

🎓Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh · United States5 works here🎓University of WashingtonSeattle · United States4 works here🎓Stanford UniversityStanford · United States4 works here🎓Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta · United States3 works here🏢MicrosoftRedmond · United States2 works here🎓Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore · United States2 works here🎓Peking UniversityBeijing · China2 works here🎓University of Maryland, College ParkCollege Park · United States2 works here🎓Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyNew Brunswick · United States1 work here🎓University of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles · United States1 work here🎓New York University Abu DhabiAbu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates1 work here🔬Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e DesenvolvimentoLisbon · Portugal1 work here

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