Work in progress. Aims to be a compact list of the key papers in NLP.

• Machine Translation
• Dialog
• Question Answering
• Information Extraction
• Deep Learning
  • Ruder's 2016 paper

• Machine Translation
  • Brown et al 1993 - The Mathematics of Statistical Machine Translation: Parameter Estimation
• Parsing
  • Early work on Penn Treebank
  • ParsEval

Each paper is listed twice: sorted by broad areas or by topic.

• Methods
  • Attention: Bahdanau et al 2014 - Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate
  • Seq2seq: Sutskever et al 2014 - Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks
  • BPE: Sennrich et al 2016 - Neural Machine Translation of Rare Words with Subword Units
  • Transformer: Vaswani et al 2017 - Attention Is All You Need
  • CRFs: Lafferty et al 2001 - Conditional Random Fields: Probabilistic Models for Segmenting and Labeling Sequence Data
  • Decoding
  • Neural features: Lample et al 2016 - Neural Architectures for Named Entity Recognition Kiperwasser & Goldberg 2016 - Simple and Accurate Dependency Parsing Using Bidirectional LSTM Feature Representations
  • BERT
  • GPT-2, GPT-3
• Datasets
  • QA: Squad v1, v2
  • NLI: SNLI
  • Dialog:
    • MultiWOZ:Budzianowski et al 2018 - MultiWOZ - A Large-Scale Multi-Domain Wizard-of-Oz Dataset for Task-Oriented Dialogue Modelling
  • Information Extraction
    • Named Entity Recognition: Tjong et al 2003 - Introduction to the CoNLL-2003 Shared Task: Language-Independent Named Entity Recognition
  • General Benchmarks
    • GLUE, SuperGLUE
    • MMMLU: Hendrycks et al 2020 - Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding
• Evaluation and Ethics
  • BLEU: Papineni et al 2002 - BLEU: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation
  • Annotation artifacts
  • 2016 ethics paper
• Deep Learning
  • Dropout
  • Batch and Layer Norm
  • Adam

• Machine Translation
  • Attention: Bahdanau et al 2014 - Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate
  • BPE: Sennrich et al 2016 - Neural Machine Translation of Rare Words with Subword Units
  • Transformer: Vaswani et al 2017 - Attention Is All You Need
• Dialog
  • MultiWOZ:Budzianowski et al 2018 - MultiWOZ - A Large-Scale Multi-Domain Wizard-of-Oz Dataset for Task-Oriented Dialogue Modelling
• Question Answering (QA)
  • Squad v1, v2
• Natural Language Inference (NLI)
  • SNLI
• Vision and Language
• Information Extraction (IE)
  • Named Entity Recognition (NER)
    • Tjong et al 2003 - Introduction to the CoNLL-2003 Shared Task: Language-Independent Named Entity Recognition
    • Lample et al 2016 - Neural Architectures for Named Entity Recognition
• Methods
  • Seq2seq: Sutskever et al 2014 - Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks
  • CRFs: Lafferty et al 2001 - Conditional Random Fields: Probabilistic Models for Segmenting and Labeling Sequence Data
  • Decoding
• PreTraining, Language Models, and In-Context Learning
  • BERT
  • GPT-2, GPT-3
• Syntactic Parsing
  • Dependency parsing
    • Kiperwasser & Goldberg 2016 - Simple and Accurate Dependency Parsing Using Bidirectional LSTM Feature Representations
• Semantic Parsing
• Evaluation and Ethics
  • BLEU: Papineni et al 2002 - BLEU: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation
  • Annotation artifacts
  • 2016 ethics paper
• Deep Learning
  • Dropout
  • Batch and Layer Norm
  • Adam

• History of NLP