Who should I Collaborate with? A Comparative Study of Academia and Industry Research Collaboration in NLP

Abstract: The goal of our research was to investigate the effects of collaboration between academia and industry on NLP. To do this, we created a pipeline to extract affiliations and citations from NLP papers and divided them into three categories: academia, industry, and hybrid (collaborations between academia and industry). Our empirical analysis found that there is a trend towards an increase in industry and academia-industry collaboration publications and that these types of publications tend to have a higher impact compared to those produced solely within academia.