This is a list of 100 important natural language processing (NLP) papers that serious students and researchers working in the field should probably know about and read.
J. Wu, K. Williams, H. Chen, M. Khabsa, C. Caragea, A. Ororbia, D. Jordan, and C. Giles. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Twenty-Sixth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, Québec, Canada, page 2930--2937. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, (July 2014)
M. Valenzuela, V. Ha, and O. Etzioni. Scholarly Big Data: AI Perspectives, Challenges, and Ideas, Papers from the 2015 AAAI Workshop, WS-15-13, page 21--26. Menlo Park, CA, AAAI Press, (2015)
C. Giles, K. Bollacker, and S. Lawrence. Proceedings of the Third ACM Conference on Digital Libraries, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, page 89--98. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (1998)
M. Ley, and P. Reuther. Extraction et gestion des connaissances (EGC'2006), Actes des sixièmes journées Extraction et Gestion des Connaissances, Lille, France, 17-20 janvier 2006, 2 Volumes, volume RNTI-E-6 of Revue des Nouvelles Technologies de l'Information, page 5-10. Cépaduès-Éditions, (2006)
A. Hotho, R. Jäschke, C. Schmitz, and G. Stumme. Proceedings of the Conceptual Structures Tool Interoperability Workshop at the 14th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, page 87-102. Aalborg University Press, (2006)