Natural Language Processing Techniques
Natural Language Processing Techniques is a research topic within Artificial Intelligence. Science Explorer counts 89k research works in it since 1950. 21.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on statistical machine translation, neural machine translation, dependency parsing, word sense disambiguation, and part-of-speech tagging. It also covers topics such as corpus linguistics, syntax-based translation models, multilingual neural machine translation, and language modeling.
- Statistical Machine Translation
- Neural Machine Translation
- Dependency Parsing
- Word Sense Disambiguation
- Part-of-Speech Tagging
- Corpus Linguistics
- Syntax-based Translation Models
- Multilingual Neural Machine Translation
- Lexical Database
- Language Modeling
- Research works
- 89k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 19k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 21.2% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +36% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Natural Language Processing Techniques research?
By volume, China and the United States publish the most (5k and 2.9k works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 5k works
- 2 United States 2.9k works
- 3 India 1.6k works
- 4 Germany 843 works
- 5 France 712 works
- 6 United Kingdom 705 works
- 7 Japan 698 works
- 8 Canada 414 works
- 9 South Korea 393 works
- 10 Italy 385 works
How concentrated that is
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Which institutions lead Natural Language Processing Techniques research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Peking University publishes the most Natural Language Processing Techniques research, followed by Tsinghua University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Peking University China 116 works
- 2 Tsinghua University China 110 works
- 3 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China 97 works
- 4 Carnegie Mellon University United States 92 works
- 5 Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications China 90 works
- 6 Harbin Institute of Technology China 85 works
- 7 Zhejiang University China 82 works
- 8 Google (United States) United States 81 works
- 9 University of Science and Technology of China China 75 works
- 10 Fudan University China 72 works
Who are the leading researchers in Natural Language Processing Techniques?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Natural Language Processing Techniques include Andrew Zisserman, Geoffrey E. Hinton and Ilya Sutskever.
- 1 Andrew Zisserman 25k citations
- 2 Geoffrey E. Hinton 22k citations
- 3 Ilya Sutskever 21k citations
- 4 Yoshua Bengio 17k citations
- 5 Serge Belongie 14k citations
- 6 Wei Liu 9.7k citations
- 7 Wei Liu 9.7k citations
- 8 Ion Stoica 9.6k citations
- 9 Zhiheng Huang 9k citations
- 10 Quoc V. Le 8.6k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Natural Language Processing Techniques research done?
The largest centres of Natural Language Processing Techniques research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Tokyo (Japan) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Redmond, San Mateo and Ikoma.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- RedmondUS · 41.5 works22×
- San MateoUS · 22.0 works21×
- IkomaJP · 27.0 works17×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Natural Language Processing Techniques than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Natural Language Processing Techniques?
Among universities, judged by research, Singapore Management University, Carnegie Mellon University and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.
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| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Singapore Management University Singapore | 69.0 | 35.3% | 10.0× | 21 | +125.9% |
| 2 | Carnegie Mellon University United States | 66.9 | 26.8% | 11.5× | 92 | +26.2% |
| 3 | Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence United Arab Emirates | 65.7 | 31.2% | 28.7× | 23 | — |
| 4 | Nanyang Technological University Singapore | 59.6 | 38.2% | 3.4× | 54 | +80.9% |
| 5 | Singapore University of Technology and Design Singapore | 58.9 | 24.1% | 8.0× | 15 | +330.3% |
| 6 | Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications China | 56.7 | 13.6% | 7.4× | 90 | +140.6% |
| 7 | Guangdong University of Foreign Studies China | 54.6 | 11.9% | 16.0× | 33 | +141.0% |
| 8 | University of Hong Kong Hong Kong | 52.4 | 33.0% | 2.2× | 37 | +111.5% |
| 9 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong | 52.3 | 32.4% | 3.2× | 54 | +15.6% |
| 10 | Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham India | 51.9 | 15.4% | 5.7× | 60 | +171.5% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Natural Language Processing Techniques research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 36% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Natural Language Processing Techniques.
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Which topics inside it are moving
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