@inproceedings{wu-2022-analysis,
    title = "An Analysis of Acknowledgments in {NLP} Conference Proceedings",
    author = "Wu, Winston",
    editor = "Bamman, David  and
      Hovy, Dirk  and
      Jurgens, David  and
      Keith, Katherine  and
      O'Connor, Brendan  and
      Volkova, Svitlana",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science (NLP+CSS)",
    month = nov,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Abu Dhabi, UAE",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2022.nlpcss-1.17/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.nlpcss-1.17",
    pages = "157--163",
    abstract = "While acknowledgments are often overlooked and sometimes entirely missing from publications, this short section of a paper can provide insights on the state of a field. We characterize and perform a textual analysis of acknowledgments in NLP conference proceedings across the last 17 years, revealing broader trends in funding and research directions in NLP as well as interesting phenomena including career incentives and the influence of defaults."
}