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Natural Language Processing (NLP) has become crucial for business, leading to increased industry involvement in NLP research. Our study examines this trend by analyzing over 78,000 NLP publications and 701 researcher resumes. We found that industry presence among NLP authors has grown rapidly, increasing 180% from 2017 to 2022. Interestingly, a small number of companies dominate these industry contributions, also funding academic research through grants and internships. Our findings show significant and fast-growing industry influence in NLP research. Given this trend, we call for more transparency about industry influence in the field.

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This page is a summary of: The Elephant in the Room: Analyzing the Presence of Big Tech in Natural Language Processing Research, January 2023, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL),
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.734.
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