Best Paper Awards (ACL)

2001-2018

Posted by pxzhang on December 30, 2018
Year Title Authors
2018 Finding syntax in human encephalography with beam search John Hale, Cornell University
Chris Dyer, DeepMind
Adhiguna Kuncoro, University of Oxford
Jonathan R. Brennan, University of Michigan
2017 Probabilistic Typology: Deep Generative Models of Vowel Inventories Ryan Cotterell & Jason Eisner, Johns Hopkins University
2016 Finding Non-Arbitrary Form-Meaning Systematicity Using String-Metric Learning for Kernel Regression E. Darío Gutiérrez, University of California Berkeley
Roger Levy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Benjamin K. Bergen, University of California San Diego
2015 Improving Evaluation of Machine Translation Quality Estimation Yvette Graham, Trinity College Dublin
2015 Learning Dynamic Feature Selection for Fast Sequential Prediction Emma Strubell, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Luke Vilnis, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Kate Silverstein, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2014 Fast and Robust Neural Network Joint Models for Statistical Machine Translation Jacob Devlin, Raytheon BBN Technologies
Rabih Zbib, Raytheon BBN Technologies
Zhongqiang Huang, Raytheon BBN Technologies
Thomas Lamar, Raytheon BBN Technologies
Richard Schwartz, Raytheon BBN Technologies
John Makhoul, Raytheon BBN Technologies
2013 Grounded Language Learning from Video Described with Sentences Haonan Yu & Jeffrey Mark Siskind, Purdue University
2012 String Re-writing Kernel Fan Bu, Tsinghua University
Hang Li, Microsoft Research
Xiaoyan Zhu, Tsinghua University
2012 Bayesian Symbol-Refined Tree Substitution Grammars for Syntactic Parsing Hiroyuki Shindo, NTT Communication Science Laboratories
Yusuke Miyao, National Institute of Informatics
Akinori Fujino, NTT Communication Science Laboratories
Masaaki Nagata, NTT Communication Science Laboratories
2011 Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging with Bilingual Graph-Based Projections Dipanjan Das, Carnegie Mellon University
Slav Petrov, Google
2010 Beyond NomBank: A Study of Implicit Arguments for Nominal Predicates Matthew Gerber & Joyce Y. Chai, Michigan State University
2009 Reinforcement Learning for Mapping Instructions to Actions S.R.K. Branavan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harr Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Luke S. Zettlemoyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Regina Barzilay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2009 K-Best A* Parsing Adam Pauls & Dan Klein, University of California Berkeley
2009 Concise Integer Linear Programming Formulations for Dependency Parsing André F.T. Martins, Instituto de Telecomunicações
Noah A. Smith, Carnegie Mellon University
Eric P. Xing, Carnegie Mellon University
2008 Forest Reranking: Discriminative Parsing with Non-Local Features Liang Huang, University of Pennsylvania
2008 A New String-to-Dependency Machine Translation Algorithm with a Target Dependency Language Model Libin Shen, BBN Technologies
Jinxi Xu, BBN Technologies
Ralph Weischedel, BBN Technologies
2007 Learning synchronous grammars for semantic parsing with lambda calculus Yuk Wah Wong & Raymond J. Mooney, University of Texas at Austin
2006 Semantic taxonomy induction from heterogenous evidence Rion Snow, Stanford University
Daniel Jurafsky, Stanford University
Andrew Y. Ng, Stanford University
2005 A Hierarchical Phrase-Based Model for Statistical Machine Translation David Chiang, University of Maryland
2004 Finding Predominant Word Senses in Untagged Text Diana McCarthy, University of Sussex
Rob Koeling, University of Sussex
Julie Weeds, University of Sussex
John Carroll, University of Sussex
2003 Accurate Unlexicalized Parsing Dan Klein & Christopher D. Manning, Stanford University
2003 Towards a Model of Face-to-Face Grounding Yukiko I. Nakano, RISTEX
Gabe Reinstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tom Stocky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Justine Cassell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2002 Discriminative Training and Maximum Entropy Models for Statistical Machine Translation Franz Josef Och & Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen University
2001 Immediate-Head Parsing for Language Models Eugene Charniak, Brown University
2001 Fast Decoding and Optimal Decoding for Machine Translation Ulrich Germann, University of Southern California
Michael Jahr, Stanford University
Kevin Knight, University of Southern California
Daniel Marcu, University of Southern California
Kenji Yamada, University of Southern California