Best Paper Awards
- Best Paper
- Honorable Mention for Best Paper
- Honorable Mention for Best Short Paper
- Best Data Set or Resource
- Notable Data Set or Resource
- Best Paper Award Committee
Best Paper
- Broad-coverage CCG Semantic Parsing with AMR Yoav Artzi, Kenton Lee and Luke Zettlemoyer
- Semantically Conditioned LSTM-based Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems Tsung-Hsien Wen, Milica Gasic, Nikola Mrkši´c, Pei-Hao Su, David Vandyke and Steve Young
IBM has provided a cash scholarship to award to the best student paper. This will go to Tsung-Hsien Wen, since he is currently a student.
Honorable Mention for Best Paper
- Traversing Knowledge Graphs in Vector Space Kelvin Guu, John Miller and Percy Liang
- Building a shared world: mapping distributional to model-theoretic semantic spaces Aurélie Herbelot and Eva Maria Vecchi
- Language Understanding for Text-based Games using Deep Reinforcement Learning Karthik Narasimhan, Tejas Kulkarni and Regina Barzilay
Honorable Mention for Best Short Paper
- Joint Lemmatization and Morphological Tagging with Lemming Thomas Müller, Ryan Cotterell, Alexander Fraser and Hinrich Schütze
- Semi-Supervised Bootstrapping of Relationship Extractors with Distributional Semantics David S. Batista, Bruno Martins and Mário J. Silva
Best Data Set or Resource
- A large annotated corpus for learning natural language inference Samuel R. Bowman, Gabor Angeli, Christopher Potts and Christopher D. Manning
Notable Data Set or Resource
- That’s So Annoying!!!: A Lexical and Frame-Semantic Embedding Based Data Augmentation Approach to Automatic Categorization of Annoying Behaviors using #petpeeve Tweets William Yang Wang and Diyi Yang
- Modeling Reportable Events as Turning Points in Narrative Jessica Ouyang and Kathy McKeown
Best Paper Award Committee
- Douglas Downey, Northwestern University
- Kevin Knight, University of Southern California
- Qun Liu, Dublin City University
- Miles Osborne, Bloomberg
- Mari Ostendorf, University of Washington
- Xiaojun Wan, Peking University
- Janyce Weibe, University of Pittsburgh