Best Paper Awards

The Best Paper Awards recognise outstanding papers at EACL 2023. The best paper awards were selected following the ACL awards policy.

The best paper awards committee consisted of: Jonathan Kummerfeld (chair), Joakim Nivre, Bonnie Webber, Thamar Solorio and Hanna Hajishirzi.

The following papers have been given awards.

Best Long Paper Awards

• COMPS: Conceptual Minimal Pair Sentences for testing Robust Property Knowledge and its Inheritance in Pre-trained Language Models.
  Kanishka Misra, Julia Rayz and Allyson Ettinger.
• WINODICT: Probing language models for in-context word acquisition.
  Julian Martin Eisenschlos, Jeremy R. Cole, Fangyu Liu and William Cohen.

Outstanding Papers

• LoRaLay: A Multilingual and Multimodal Dataset for Long Range and Layout-Aware Summarization.
  Laura Kim-Anh Nguyen, Thomas Scialom, Benjamin Piwowarski and Jacopo Staiano.
• Identifying the limits of transformers when performing model-checking with natural language.
  Tharindu Madusanka, Riza Batista-Navarro and Ian Pratt-Hartmann
• ZELDA: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Supervised Entity Disambiguation.
  Marcel Milich and Alan Akbik.
• Iterative Document-level Information Extraction via Imitation Learning.
  Yunmo Chen, William Gantt, Weiwei Gu, Tongfei Chen, Aaron Steven White and Benjamin Van Durme.
• PCC: Paraphrasing with Bottom-k Sampling and Cyclic Learning for Curriculum Data Augmentation.
  Hongyuan Lu and Wai Lam.
• A Human Subject Study of Named Entity Recognition (NER) in Conversational Music Recommendation Queries.
  Elena V. Epure and Romain Hennequin.
• Don’t Blame the Annotator: Bias Already Starts in the Annotation Instructions.
  Mihir Parmar, Swaroop Mishra, Mor Geva and Chitta Baral.
• USCORE: An Effective Approach to Fully Unsupervised Evaluation Metrics for Machine Translation.
  Jonas Belouadi and Steffen Eger.
• LONGEVAL: Guidelines for Human Evaluation of Faithfulness in Long-form Summarization.
  Kalpesh Krishna, Erin Bransom, Bailey E. Kuehl, Mohit Iyyer, Pradeep Dasigi, Arman Cohan and Kyle Lo.
• NusaX: Multilingual Parallel Sentiment Dataset for 10 Indonesian Local Languages.
  Genta Indra Winata, Alham Fikri Aji, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Rahmad Mahendra, Fajri Koto, Ade Romadhony, Kemal Maulana Kurniawan, David Moeljadi, Radityo Eko Prasojo, Pascale Fung, Timothy Baldwin, Jey Han Lau, Rico Sennrich and Sebastian Ruder.

Best System Demonstration

• Small-Text: Active Learning for Text Classification in Python
  Christopher Schröder, Lydia Müller, Andreas Niekler, Martin Potthast

Congratulations to all!