Exploring the Landscape of Natural Language Processing Research

Tim Schopf, Karim Arabi, Florian Matthes


Abstract
As an efficient approach to understand, generate, and process natural language texts, research in natural language processing (NLP) has exhibited a rapid spread and wide adoption in recent years. Given the increasing research work in this area, several NLP-related approaches have been surveyed in the research community. However, a comprehensive study that categorizes established topics, identifies trends, and outlines areas for future research remains absent. Contributing to closing this gap, we have systematically classified and analyzed research papers in the ACL Anthology. As a result, we present a structured overview of the research landscape, provide a taxonomy of fields of study in NLP, analyze recent developments in NLP, summarize our findings, and highlight directions for future work.
Anthology ID:
2023.ranlp-1.111
Volume:
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing
Month:
September
Year:
2023
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Varna, Bulgaria
Editors:
Ruslan Mitkov, Galia Angelova
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RANLP
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Publisher:
INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria
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Pages:
1034–1045
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2023.ranlp-1.111
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Cite (ACL):
Tim Schopf, Karim Arabi, and Florian Matthes. 2023. Exploring the Landscape of Natural Language Processing Research. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, pages 1034–1045, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria.
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Exploring the Landscape of Natural Language Processing Research (Schopf et al., RANLP 2023)
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