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 Traing 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

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 Translationz

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