Best paper awards

ACL

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Year	Author	Paper Title
2001	Eugene Charniak	Immediate-head parsing for language modeling
2001	Ulrich Germann, Michael Jahr, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu, and Kenji Yamada	Fast Decoding and Optimal Decoding for Machine Translation
2002	Franz Och and Hermann Ney	Discriminative Training and Maximum Entropy Models for Statistical Machine Translation
2003	Dan Klein and Chris Manning	Accurate Unlexicalized Parsing
2003	Yukiko Nakano, Gabe Reinstein, Tom Stocky, and Justine Cassell	Towards a Model of Face-to-Face Grounding
2004	Diana McCarthy, Rob Koeling, Julie Weeds, and John Carroll	Finding Predominant Word Senses in Untagged Text
2005	David Chiang	A hierarchical phrase-based model for statistical machine translation
2006	Rion Snow, Dan Jurafsky, and Andrew Y. Ng	Semantic taxonomy induction from heterogenous evidence
2007	Y. W. Wong and R. J. Mooney	Learning synchronous grammars for semantic parsing with lambda calculus
2008	Liang Huang	Forest Reranking: Discriminative Parsing with Non-Local Features
2008	Libin Shen, Jinxi Xu and Ralph Weischedel	A New String-to-Dependency Machine Translation Algorithm with a Target Dependency Language Model
2009	Andre Martins, Noah Smith and Eric Xing	Concise Integer Linear Programming Formulations for Dependency Parsing
2009	S.R.K. Branavan, Harr Chen, Luke Zettlemoyer and Regina Barzilay	Reinforcement Learning for Mapping Instructions to Actions
2009	Adam Pauls and Dan Klein	K-Best A* Parsing
2010 (Long)	Matthew Gerber and Joyce Chai	Beyond NomBank: A Study of Implicit Arguments for Nominal Predicates
2010 (Short)	Michael Lamar, Yariv Maron, Mark Johnson and Elie Bienenstock	SVD and Clustering for Unsupervised POS Tagging
2010 (Student)	David Elson, Nicholas Dames and Kathleen McKeown	Extracting Social Networks from Literary Fiction
2011	Dipanjan Das and Slav Petrov	Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging with Bilingual Graph-Based Projections
2012 (Long)	Hiroyuki Shindo, Yusuke Miyao, Akinori Fujino and Masaaki Nagata	Bayesian Symbol-Refined Tree Substitution Grammars for Syntactic Parsing
2012 (Student)	Fan Bu, Hang Li and Xiaoyan Zhu	String Re-writing Kernel
2013	Haonan Yu and Jeffrey Mark Siskind	Grounded Language Learning from Video Described with Sentences
2013 (Student)	Abdellah Fourtassi and Emmanuel Dupoux	A corpus-based evaluation method for Distributional Semantic Models
2014	Jacob Devlin, Rabih Zbib, Zhongqiang Huang, Thomas Lamar, Richard Schwartz and John Makhoul	Fast and Robust Neural Network Joint Models for Statistical Machine Translation
2014 (Short)	Jean Mark Gawron	Improving sparse word similarity models with asymmetric similarity measures.
2014 (Student)	Tao Lei, Yu Xin, Yuan Zhang, Regina Barzilay and Tommi Jaakkola	Low-Rank Tensors for Scoring Dependency Structures
2015	Yvette Graham	Improving Evaluation of Machine Translation Quality Estimation
2015	Emma Strubell, Luke Vilnis, Kate Silverstein, Andrew McCallum,	Learning Dynamic Feature Selection for Fast Sequential Prediction
2016	E.Dario Gutiérrez, Roger Levy, Benjamin Bergen	Finding Non-Arbitrary Form-Meaning Systematicity Using String-Metric Learning for Kernel Regression
2017	Ryan Cotterell, Jason Eisner	Probabilistic Typology: Deep Generative Models of Vowel Inventories
2018	John Hale, Chris Dyer, Adhiguna Kuncoro, Jonathan Brennan	Finding syntax in human encephalography with beam search
2019	Wen Zhang, Yang Feng, Fandong Meng, Di You and Qun Liu	Bridging the Gap between Training and Inference for Neural Machine Translation

NAACL

Year	Author	Paper Title
2004	Regina Barzilay, MIT, and Lillian Lee, Cornell	Catching the Drift: Probabilistic Content Models, with Applications to Generation and Summarization
2006	Mehryar Mohri and Brian Roark	Probabilistic Context-Free Grammar Induction Based on Structural Zeros
2006	Aria Haghighi and Dan Klein	Prototype-Driven Learning for Sequence Models
2007	Antti-Veikko Rosti, Bing Xiang, Spyros Matsoukas, Richard Schwartz, Necip Fazil Ayan and Bonnie Dorr	Combining Outputs from Multiple Machine Translation Systems
2009	Hoifung Poon, Colin Cherry and Kristina Toutanova	Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation with Log-Linear Models
2009	David Chiang, Kevin Knight and Wei Wang	11,001 New Features for Statistical Machine Translation
2010 (long)	Aria Haghighi and Dan Klein	Coreference Resolution in a Modular, Entity-Centered Model
2010 (short)	Jennifer Foster	“cba to check the spelling”: Investigating Parser Performance on Discussion Forum Posts
2012 (full)	Alexander Rush and Slav Petrov	Vine Pruning for Efficient Multi-Pass Dependency Parsing
2012 (short)	Jacob Devlin and Spyros Matsoukas	Trait-Based Hypothesis Selection for Machine Translation
2012 (student)	Oscar Taeckstroem, Ryan McDonald and Jakob Uszkoreit	Cross-lingual Word Clusters for Direct Transfer of Linguistic Structure
2013 (full)	no award given
2013 (short)	Marta Recasens, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe and Christopher Potts	The Life and Death of Discourse Entities: Identifying Singleton Mentions
2013 (student)	Bradley Hauer and Greg Kondrak	Automatic Generation of English Respellings
2015 (long)	Radu Soricut and Franz Och	Unsupervised Morphology Induction Using Word Embeddings
2015 (student)	Vinodh Krishnan and Jacob Eisenstein	"You’re Mr. Lebowski, I’m the Dude”: Inducing Address Term Formality in Signed Social Networks
2015 (student)	Manaal Faruqui, Jesse Dodge, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Chris Dyer, Eduard Hovy, Noah A. Smith	Retrofitting Word Vectors to Semantic Lexicons
2016	Mohit Iyyer, Anupam Guha, Snigdha Chaturvedi, Jordan Boyd-Graber and Hal Daumé III	Feuding Families and Former Friends; Unsupervised Learning for Dynamic Fictional Relationships
2016	Jacob Andreas, Marcus Rohrbach, Trevor Darrell and Dan Klein	Learning to Compose Neural Networks for Question Answering
2018	Matthew E. Peters, Mark Neumann, Mohit Iyyer, Matt Gardner, Christopher Clark, Kenton Lee, Luke Zettlemoyer	Deep contextualized word representations
2019	Jacob Devlin, Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee and Kristina Toutanova	BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding

EMNLP

Year	Author	Paper Title
2002	Michael Collins	Discriminative Training Methods for Hidden Markov Models: Theory and Experiments with Perceptron Algorithms
2002	Frank Keller, Maria Lapata, and Olga Ourioupina	Using the Web to Overcome Data Sparseness
2003	Peng Xu, Ahmad Emami and Frederick Jelinek	Training Connectionist Models for the Structured Language Model
2004	Ben Taskar, Dan Klein, Michael Collins, Daphne Koller, and Christopher Manning	Max-Margin Parsing
2005 (best student paper)	Ryan McDonald, Fernando Pereira, Kiril Ribarov and Jan Hajic	Non-Projective Dependency Parsing using Spanning Tree Algorithms
2006	no award given
2007	James Clarke and Maria Lapata	Modelling Compression with Discourse Constraints
2008	no award given
2009	Hoifung Poon and Pedro Domingos	Unsupervised semantic parsing
2010	Terry Koo, Alexander M. Rush, Michael Collins, Tommi Jaakkola, and David Sontag	Dual Decomposition for Parsing with Non-Projective Head Automata
2011	Wei Lu and Hwee Tou Ng	A Probabilistic Forest-to-String Model for Language Generation from Typed Lambda Calculus Expressions
2012	Annie Louis and Ani Nenkova	A Coherence Model Based on Syntactic Patterns
2013	Valentin Spitkovsky, Hiyan Alshawi and Daniel Jurafsky	Breaking Out of Local Optima with Count Transforms and Model Recombination: A Study in Grammar Induction
2014	Vivek Srikumar, Pei-Chun Chen, Abby Vander Linden, Brittany Harding, Brad Huang, Peter Clark and Christopher D. Manning	Modeling Biological Processes for Reading Comprehension
2015	Yoav Artzi, Kenton Lee and Luke Zettlemoyer	Broad-coverage CCG Semantic Parsing with AMR
2015	Tsung-Hsien Wen, Milica Gasic, Nikola Mrkši´c, Pei-Hao Su, David Vandyke and Steve Young	Semantically Conditioned LSTM-based Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems
2016	Karthik Narasimhan, Adam Yala and Regina Barzilay	Improving Information Extraction by Acquiring External Evidence with Reinforcement Learning
2016	Kenton Lee, Mike Lewis and Luke Zettlemoyer	Global Neural CCG Parsing with Optimality Guarantees
2017	Jieyu Zhao, Tianlu Wang, Mark Yatskar, Vicente Ordonez and Kai-Wei Chang	Men Also Like Shopping: Reducing Gender Bias Amplification using Corpus-level Constraints
2017	Andrew Yates, Arman Cohan and Nazli Goharian	Depression and Self-Harm Risk Assessment in Online Forums
2018	Emma Strubell, Patrick Verga, Daniel Andor, David Weiss and Andrew McCallum	Linguistically-Informed Self-Attention for Semantic Role Labeling
2019	Xiang Lisa Li and Jason Eisner	Specializing Word Embeddings (for Parsing) by Information Bottleneck

IJCNLP

Year	Author	Paper Title
2005	John Carroll and Stephan Oepen	High Efficiency Realization for a Wide-Coverage Unification Grammar
2009	Andre Martins, Noah Smith and Eric Xing	Concise Integer Linear Programming Formulations for Dependency Parsing
2009	S.R.K. Branavan, Harr Chen, Luke Zettlemoyer and Regina Barzilay	Reinforcement Learning for Mapping Instructions to Actions
2009	Adam Pauls and Dan Klein	K-Best A* Parsing
2011	Caecilia Zirn, Mathias Niepert, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, and Michael Strube	Fine-Grained Sentiment Analysis with Structural Features
2011	Siva Reddy, Ioannis Klapaftis, Diana McCarthy and Suresh Manandhar	Dynamic and Static Prototype Vectors for Semantic Composition
2013	Houda Bouamor, Behrang Mohit and Kemal Oflazer	SuMT: A Framework of Summarization and MT