CREATE TABLE writes (paperid INT, authorid INT)
CREATE TABLE journal (journalid INT, journalname VARCHAR)
CREATE TABLE cite (citingpaperid INT, citedpaperid INT)
CREATE TABLE venue (venueid INT, venuename VARCHAR)
CREATE TABLE author (authorid INT, authorname VARCHAR)
CREATE TABLE paperkeyphrase (paperid INT, keyphraseid INT)
CREATE TABLE paperfield (fieldid INT, paperid INT)
CREATE TABLE keyphrase (keyphraseid INT, keyphrasename VARCHAR)
CREATE TABLE paperdataset (paperid INT, datasetid INT)
CREATE TABLE paper (paperid INT, title VARCHAR, venueid INT, year INT, numciting INT, numcitedby INT, journalid INT)
CREATE TABLE field (fieldid INT)
CREATE TABLE dataset (datasetid INT, datasetname VARCHAR)

how many papers in emnlp 2016
SELECT DISTINCT COUNT(paper.paperid) FROM paper, venue WHERE paper.year = 2016 AND venue.venueid = paper.venueid AND venue.venuename = 'emnlp'
SELECT DISTINCT COUNT("paper"."paperid") FROM "paper" JOIN "venue" ON "paper"."venueid" = "venue"."venueid" AND "venue"."venuename" = 'emnlp' WHERE "paper"."year" = 2016