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EMNLP 2016 — accepted papers

EMNLP 2016 is the 2016 edition of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), held in Austin, Texas, November 2016 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 270 papers of it in 2 tracks; our library holds 57 with our summaries. Below: its awards, the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

 270papers in the proceedings 57works in our library 35,825citations of these works Austin, Texaswhere it was held November 2016when

Tracks

Main264Tutorial Abstracts6

Awards

As the ACL Anthology records them.

  1. SQuAD: 100,000+ Questions for Machine Comprehension of TextPranav Rajpurkar, Jian Zhang, Konstantin Lopyrev et al. · 🏆 ACL 2026 Test of Time Award6,190 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. SQuAD: 100,000+ Questions for Machine Comprehension of TextPranav Rajpurkar, Jian Zhang, Konstantin Lopyrev et al. · 🏆 ACL 2026 Test of Time Award6,190 citations · our summary
  2. Attention-based LSTM for Aspect-level Sentiment ClassificationYequan Wang, Minlie Huang, Xiaoyan Zhu et al.2,348 citations · our summary
  3. Multimodal Compact Bilinear Pooling for Visual Question Answering and Visual GroundingAkira Fukui, Dong Huk Park, Daylen Yang et al.1,544 citations · our summary
  4. A Decomposable Attention Model for Natural Language InferenceAnkur Parikh, Oscar Täckström, Dipanjan Das et al.1,296 citations · our summary
  5. How NOT To Evaluate Your Dialogue System: An Empirical Study of Unsupervised Evaluation Metrics for Dialogue Response GenerationChia-Wei Liu, Ryan Lowe, Iulian Serban et al.1,228 citations · our summary
  6. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue GenerationJiwei Li, Will Monroe, Alan Ritter et al.1,204 citations · our summary
  7. Long Short-Term Memory-Networks for Machine ReadingJianpeng Cheng, Li Dong, Mirella Lapata1,172 citations · our summary
  8. Aspect Level Sentiment Classification with Deep Memory NetworkDuyu Tang, Bing Qin, Ting Liu1,041 citations · our summary
  9. Key-Value Memory Networks for Directly Reading DocumentsAlexander Miller, Adam Fisch, Jesse Dodge et al.996 citations
  10. Sequence-Level Knowledge DistillationYoon Kim, Alexander M. Rush819 citations · our summary

All accepted papers (270)

The most cited first; 57 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

  1. SQuAD: 100,000+ Questions for Machine Comprehension of TextPranav Rajpurkar, Jian Zhang, Konstantin Lopyrev et al. · 🏆 ACL 2026 Test of Time Award6,190 citations · our summary
  2. Attention-based LSTM for Aspect-level Sentiment ClassificationYequan Wang, Minlie Huang, Xiaoyan Zhu et al.2,348 citations · our summary
  3. Multimodal Compact Bilinear Pooling for Visual Question Answering and Visual GroundingAkira Fukui, Dong Huk Park, Daylen Yang et al.1,544 citations · our summary
  4. A Decomposable Attention Model for Natural Language InferenceAnkur Parikh, Oscar Täckström, Dipanjan Das et al.1,296 citations · our summary
  5. How NOT To Evaluate Your Dialogue System: An Empirical Study of Unsupervised Evaluation Metrics for Dialogue Response GenerationChia-Wei Liu, Ryan Lowe, Iulian Serban et al.1,228 citations · our summary
  6. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue GenerationJiwei Li, Will Monroe, Alan Ritter et al.1,204 citations · our summary
  7. Long Short-Term Memory-Networks for Machine ReadingJianpeng Cheng, Li Dong, Mirella Lapata1,172 citations · our summary
  8. Aspect Level Sentiment Classification with Deep Memory NetworkDuyu Tang, Bing Qin, Ting Liu1,041 citations · our summary
  9. Key-Value Memory Networks for Directly Reading DocumentsAlexander Miller, Adam Fisch, Jesse Dodge et al.996 citations
  10. Sequence-Level Knowledge DistillationYoon Kim, Alexander M. Rush819 citations · our summary
  11. Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Neural Machine TranslationBarret Zoph, Deniz Yuret, Jonathan May et al.788 citations
  12. Rationalizing Neural PredictionsTao Lei, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola684 citations · our summary
  13. A Neural Approach to Automated Essay ScoringKaveh Taghipour, Hwee Tou Ng516 citations · our summary
  14. Sequence-to-Sequence Learning as Beam-Search OptimizationSam Wiseman, Alexander M. Rush481 citations
  15. Neural Text Generation from Structured Data with Application to the Biography DomainRémi Lebret, David Grangier, Michael Auli444 citations · our summary
  16. Recursive Neural Conditional Random Fields for Aspect-based Sentiment AnalysisWenya Wang, Sinno Jialin Pan, Daniel Dahlmeier et al.435 citations · our summary
  17. Human Attention in Visual Question Answering: Do Humans and Deep Networks look at the same regions?Abhishek Das, Harsh Agrawal, Larry Zitnick et al.427 citations
  18. Stance Detection with Bidirectional Conditional EncodingIsabelle Augenstein, Tim Rocktäschel, Andreas Vlachos et al.381 citations · our summary
  19. Learning principled bilingual mappings of word embeddings while preserving monolingual invarianceMikel Artetxe, Gorka Labaka, Eneko Agirre369 citations · our summary
  20. Inducing Domain-Specific Sentiment Lexicons from Unlabeled CorporaWilliam L. Hamilton, Kevin Clark, Jure Leskovec et al.355 citations · our summary
  21. Neural Sentiment Classification with User and Product AttentionHuimin Chen, Maosong Sun, Cunchao Tu et al.339 citations
  22. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Mention-Ranking Coreference ModelsKevin Clark, Christopher D. Manning328 citations · our summary
  23. Neural versus Phrase-Based Machine Translation Quality: a Case StudyLuisa Bentivogli, Arianna Bisazza, Mauro Cettolo et al.316 citations · our summary
  24. A Hierarchical Model of Reviews for Aspect-based Sentiment AnalysisSebastian Ruder, Parsa Ghaffari, John G. Breslin304 citations
  25. Does String-Based Neural MT Learn Source Syntax?Xing Shi, Inkit Padhi, Kevin Knight300 citations · our summary

See all 270 papers in EMNLP 2016 — accepted papers →

 Papers with our summary in our library (57)

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

  1. SQuAD: 100,000+ Questions for Machine Comprehension of TextConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Pranav Rajpurkar, Jian Zhang, Konstantin Lopyrev, et al.2016 · 9,513 citations
  2. Attention-based LSTM for Aspect-level Sentiment ClassificationConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Yequan Wang, Minlie Huang, Xiaoyan Zhu, et al.2016 · 2,619 citations
  3. How NOT To Evaluate Your Dialogue System: An Empirical Study of Unsupervised Evaluation Metrics for Dialogue Response GenerationConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Chia-Wei Liu, Ryan Lowe, Iulian Serban, et al.2016 · 1,744 citations
  4. Multimodal Compact Bilinear Pooling for Visual Question Answering and Visual GroundingConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Akira Fukui, Dong Huk Park, Daylen Yang, et al.2016 · 1,653 citations
  5. A Decomposable Attention Model for Natural Language InferenceConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Ankur Parikh, Oscar Täckström, Dipanjan Das, et al.2016 · 1,601 citations
  6. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue GenerationConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Jiwei Li, Will Monroe, Alan Ritter, et al.2016 · 1,495 citations
  7. Sequence-Level Knowledge DistillationConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Yoon Kim, Alexander M. Rush2016 · 1,445 citations
  8. Long Short-Term Memory-Networks for Machine ReadingConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Jianpeng Cheng, Li Dong, Mirella Lapata2016 · 1,307 citations
  9. Aspect Level Sentiment Classification with Deep Memory NetworkConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Duyu Tang, Bing Qin, Ting Liu2016 · 1,194 citations
  10. Rationalizing Neural PredictionsConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Tao Lei, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola2016 · 935 citations
  11. Neural Text Generation from Structured Data with Application to the Biography DomainConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Remi Lebret, David Grangier, Michael Auli2016 · 697 citations
  12. A Joint Many-Task Model: Growing a Neural Network for Multiple NLP TasksConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Kazuma Hashimoto, Caiming Xiong, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, et al.2016 · 668 citations
  13. A Neural Approach to Automated Essay ScoringConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Kaveh Taghipour, Hwee Tou Ng2016 · 652 citations
  14. Learning principled bilingual mappings of word embeddings while preserving monolingual invarianceConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Mikel Artetxe, Gorka Labaka, Eneko Agirre2016 · 535 citations
  15. Stance Detection with Bidirectional Conditional EncodingConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Isabelle Augenstein, Tim Rocktäschel, Andreas Vlachos, et al.2016 · 522 citations
  16. Recursive Neural Conditional Random Fields for Aspect-based Sentiment AnalysisConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Wenya Wang, Sinno Jialin Pan, Daniel Dahlmeier, et al.2016 · 515 citations
  17. Does String-Based Neural MT Learn Source Syntax?Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Xing Shi, Inkit Padhi, Kevin Knight2016 · 496 citations
  18. Demographic Dialectal Variation in Social Media: A Case Study of African-American EnglishConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Su Lin Blodgett, Lisa Green, Brendan O'Connor2016 · 471 citations
  19. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Mention-Ranking Coreference ModelsConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Kevin Clark, Christopher D. Manning2016 · 463 citations
  20. Neural versus Phrase-Based Machine Translation Quality: a Case StudyConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Luisa Bentivogli, Arianna Bisazza, Mauro Cettolo, et al.2016 · 437 citations
  21. Inducing Domain-Specific Sentiment Lexicons from Unlabeled CorporaConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)William L. Hamilton, Kevin Clark, Jure Leskovec, et al.2016 · 434 citations
  22. Exploiting Source-side Monolingual Data in Neural Machine TranslationConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Jiajun Zhang, Chengqing Zong2016 · 409 citations
  23. Analyzing the Behavior of Visual Question Answering ModelsConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Aishwarya Agrawal, Dhruv Batra, Devi Parikh2016 · 360 citations
  24. Zero-Resource Translation with Multi-Lingual Neural Machine TranslationConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Orhan Firat, Baskaran Sankaran, Yaser Al-onaizan, et al.2016 · 352 citations
  25. How Transferable are Neural Networks in NLP Applications?Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Lili Mou, Zhao Meng, Rui Yan, et al.2016 · 327 citations

See all 57 works in EMNLP 2016 — accepted papers →

 Top topics

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

Machine translation (10)Sentiment & emotion (7)Discourse analysis (6)English (6)Evaluation & benchmarks (4)Coreference resolution (3)Question answering (2)Text generation (2)Dialogue systems (2)Reasoning (2)Syntax & grammar formalisms (2)Vision & language (2)Dependency parsing (1)Universal Dependencies (1)Semantic role labeling (1)

7 more topics

Information extraction (1)Speech & spoken language (1)Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)Semantic parsing & meaning representation (1)Efficient models & compression (1)Grammatical error correction & learner language (1)Historical linguistics & language change (1)

 Fields

Computer Science (56)Arts and Humanities (54)Decision Sciences (2)Psychology (2)Social Sciences (2)

 Top authors

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

🧑‍🔬Dan Jurafsky3 works here · 2,254 citations🧑‍🔬Mohit Bansal3 works here · 501 citations🧑‍🔬Jinsong Su3 works here · 343 citations🧑‍🔬Kevin Clark2 works here · 897 citations🧑‍🔬Jure Leskovec2 works here · 759 citations🧑‍🔬William L. Hamilton2 works here · 759 citations🧑‍🔬Graham Neubig2 works here · 622 citations🧑‍🔬Kevin Gimpel2 works here · 414 citations🧑‍🔬Biao Zhang2 works here · 309 citations🧑‍🔬Deyi Xiong2 works here · 309 citations🧑‍🔬Hong Duan2 works here · 309 citations🧑‍🔬Min Zhang2 works here · 309 citations

 Top institutions

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

🎓Stanford UniversityStanford · United States5 works here🎓Xiamen UniversityXiamen · China3 works here🎓University of EdinburghEdinburgh · United Kingdom3 works here🏢GoogleMountain View · United States2 works here🎓Toyota Technological Institute at ChicagoChicago · United States2 works here🎓Hebrew University of JerusalemJerusalem · Israel2 works here🏛️Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing · China2 works here🎓Peking UniversityBeijing · China2 works here🎓Harbin Institute of TechnologyHarbin · China2 works here🎓Soochow UniversitySuzhou · China2 works here🔬Institute of Computing TechnologyBeijing · China2 works here🔬IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research CenterYorktown Heights · United States2 works here

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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