Best papers at NAACL HLT 2015

Congratulations to the best paper award winners. This year NAACL HLT 2015 will have three best papers. One best long paper and two best student papers. The best paper awards were chosen by the best paper award committee which included Claire Cardie, Daniel Gildea, Daniel Marcu, Fernando Pereira and the program co-chairs: Joyce Chai and Anoop Sarkar who decided on the short list of nominees based on extensive input from the area chairs and the reviewer nominations in their review forms.

List of best papers

• Retrofitting Word Vectors to Semantic Lexicons: Manaal Faruqui, Jesse Dodge, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Chris Dyer, Eduard Hovy, Noah A. Smith. Carnegie Mellon University

• “You’re Mr. Lebowski, I’m the Dude”: Inducing Address Term Formality in Signed Social Networks: Vinodh Krishnan and Jacob Eisenstein. Georgia Institute of Technology

• Unsupervised Morphology Induction Using Word Embeddings: Radu Soricut and Franz Och. Google Inc. and Human Longevity, Inc.