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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 |
| 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 | [http://aclweb.org/anthology/P14-1129 Fast and Robust Neural Network Joint Models for Statistical Machine Translation
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| 2014 (Student) | Tao Lei, Yu Xin, Yuan Zhang, Regina Barzilay and Tommi Jaakkola | Low-Rank Tensors for Scoring Dependency Structures |
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 |
EMNLP
IJCNLP
| Year | Author | Paper Title |
| 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 |