This is a running list of the papers that (in my own humble opinion) are the most {interesting, informative, creative, fun} ones out there. This could be because of a number of reasons: a new approach, a new dataset, something that I’m personally interested in or just because it was really fun to read.
If you want to read a little more about some of the papers, follow the additional links (Note that what I’ve written is only a brief overview of what the paper goes over and while I believe it is (mostly) accurate, if you want a good understanding, I would highly recommend going to the paper link and just reading the paper instead).
Here’s the list. Happy reading!
1) You had me at hello: How phrasing affects memorability. Authors: Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Justin Cheng, Jon Kleinberg, Lillian Lee.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.6360
2) Catching the Drift: Probabilistic Content Models, with Applications to Generation and Summarization. Authors: Regina Barzilay and Lillian Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0405039
3) Multiple Narrative Disentanglement: Unraveling Infinite Jest. Author: Byron Wallace
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N12-1001
4) A Sentimental Education: Sentiment Analysis Using Subjectivity Summarization Based on Minimum Cuts. Authors: Bo Pang and Lillian Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0409058
5) Never Ending Learning. Authors: NLP@CMU
http://talukdar.net/papers/NELL_aaai15.pdf
6) Are Elephants Bigger than Butterflies? Reasoning about Sizes of Objects. Authors: Hessam Bagherinezhad, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Yejin Choi, Ali Farhadi
https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.00753
7) Friendships, Rivalries, and Trysts: Characterizing Relations between Ideas in Texts. Authors: Chenhao Tan, Dallas Card, Noah Smith
ttps://arxiv.org/abs/1704.07828
8) Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging with Bilingual Graph-Based Projections. Authors: Dipanjan Das and Slav Petrov
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/37071.pdf
9) What Makes Writing Great? First Experiments on Article Quality Prediction in the Science Journalism Domain. Authors: Ani Nenkova and Annie Louis
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/Q13-1028
10) Modeling Evolving Relationships Between Characters in Literary Novels. Authors: Snigdha Chaturvedi, Shashank Srivastava, Hal Daume III and Chris Dyer
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~hal/docs/daume16literary.pdf
11) Feuding Families and Former Friends: Unsupervised Learning for Dynamic Fictional Relationships. Authors: Mohit Iyyer, Anupam Guha, Snigdha Chaturvedi, Jordan Boyd-Graber, and Hal Daumé III.
https://www.cs.umd.edu/~miyyer/pubs/2016_naacl_relationships.pdf
12) Political Ideology Detection Using Recursive Neural Networks. Authors: Mohit Iyyer, Peter Enns, Jordan Boyd-Graber, and Philip Resnik.
https://www.cs.umd.edu/~miyyer/pubs/2014_RNN_framing.pdf
13) Reasoning about pragmatics with neural listeners and speakers. Authors: Jacob Andreas and Dan Klein.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.00562
14) So-Called Non-Subsective Adjectives. Authors: Ellie Pavlick and Chris Callison-Burch.
https://cs.brown.edu/people/epavlick/papers/nonsub.pdf
15) Learning to reason: End-to-end module networks for visual question answering. Authors: Ronghang Hu, Jacob Andreas, Marcus Rohrbach, Trevor Darrell and Kate Saenko.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05526
16) Identifying 1950s American Jazz Musicians: Fine-Grained Isa Extraction via Modifier Composition. Authors: Ellie Pavlick and Marius Pasca.
https://cs.brown.edu/people/epavlick/papers/finegrained-isa.pdf
17) Extractive Summarization by Maximizing Semantic Volume. Authors: Dani Yogatama, Fei Liu and Noah Smith.
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D15-1228
18) A Neural Attention Model for Abstractive Sentence Summarization. Authors: Alex Rush, Sumit Chopra and Jason Weston.
19) Learning to Automatically Solve Algebra Word Problems. Authors: Nate Kushman, Yoav Artzi, Luke Zettlemoyer and Regina Barzilay.
http://yoavartzi.com/pub/kazb-acl.2014.pdf
20) Deciphering Foreign Language. Authors: Sujith Ravi and Kevin Knight.
https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P11/P11-1002.pdf
21) Extracting Social Networks from Literary Fiction. Authors: David Elson, Nicholas Dames and Kathleen McKeown.
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P10-1015
22) Learning Global Features for Coreference Resolution. Authors: Sam Wiseman, Alex Rush and Stuart Shieber.
http://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/papers/corefmain.pdf
23) Connotation Frames of Agency and Power in Modern Films. Authors: Maarten Sap, Marcella Cindy Prasettio, Ariel Holtzman, Hannah Rashkin and Yejin Choi.
https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~msap/pdfs/sap2017connotation.pdf
23) Generating Topical Poetry. Authors: Marjan Ghazvininejad, Xing Shi, Yejin Choi, and Kevin Knight.
https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~yejin/Papers/emnlp16_sonnet.pdf