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