Best Papers/ACL

ACL Best Papers

Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

15 papers · 2020–2025

← ACL Conference Info

🏆 2025(4)

Best Paper Award

A Theory of Response Sampling in LLMs: Part Descriptive and Part Prescriptive

Sivaprasad, Kaushik, Abdelnabi, Fritz

LLMTheory

Best Paper Award

Fairness through Difference Awareness: Measuring Desired Group Discrimination in LLMs

Wang, Phan, Ho, Koyejo

FairnessLLM

Best Paper Award

Language Models Resist Alignment: Evidence From Data Compression

Ji, Wang, Qiu, Chen, Zhou, Li, Lou, Dai, Liu, Yang

LLMAlignment

Best Paper Award

Native Sparse Attention: Hardware-Aligned and Natively Trainable Sparse Attention

Yuan, Gao, Dai, Luo, Zhao, Zhang, Xie, Wei, Wang, Xiao, Wang, Ruan, Zhang, Liang, Zeng

AttentionEfficiency

🏆 2024(2)

Best Paper Award

Aya Model: An Instruction Finetuned Open-Access Multilingual Language Model

Üstün et al.

MultilingualInstruction Tuning

Best Paper Award

Mission: Impossible Language Models

Kallini et al.

Language ModelsTheory

🏆 2023(3)

Best Paper Award

Do Androids Laugh at Electric Sheep? Humor Understanding Benchmarks from The New Yorker Caption Contest

Hessel et al.

HumorBenchmark

Best Paper Award

What the DAAM: Interpreting Stable Diffusion Using Cross Attention

Raphael Tang, Linqing Liu, Akshat Pandey, Zhiying Jiang, Gefei Yang, Karun Kumar, Pontus Stenetorp, Jimmy Lin

Best Paper Award

From Pretraining Data to Language Models to Downstream Tasks: Tracking the Trails of Political Biases Leading to Unfair NLP Models

Shangbin Feng, Chan Young Park, Yuhan Liu, Yulia Tsvetkov

Object Tracking

🏆 2022(4)

Best Paper Award

Learned Incremental Representations for Parsing

Kitaev et al.

ParsingRepresentations

Best Paper Award

Requirements and Motivations of Low-Resource Speech Synthesis for Language Revitalization

Aidan Pine, Dan Wells, Nathan Brinklow, Patrick William Littell, Korin Richmond

Speech SynthesisSynthesis

Best Paper Award

DiBiMT: A Novel Benchmark for Measuring Word Sense Disambiguation Biases in Machine Translation

Niccolò Campolungo, Federico Martelli, Francesco Saina, Roberto Navigli

Machine TranslationBenchmarkingWord Sense Disambiguation

Best Paper Award

KinyaBERT: a Morphology-aware Kinyarwanda Language Model

Antoine Nzeyimana, Andre Niyongabo Rubung

Language Models

🏆 2021(1)

Best Paper Award

Vocabulary Learning via Optimal Transport for Neural Machine Translation

Jingjing Xu, Hao Zhou, Chun Gan, Zaixiang Zheng, Lei Li

NLPmachine translationoptimal transport

🏆 2020(1)

Best Paper Award

Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP models with Checklist

Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Tongshuang Wu, Carlos Guestrin, Sameer Singh

Best Papers/ACL

ACL Best Papers

Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

15 papers · 2020–2025

← ACL Conference Info

🏆 2025(4)

Best Paper Award

A Theory of Response Sampling in LLMs: Part Descriptive and Part Prescriptive

Sivaprasad, Kaushik, Abdelnabi, Fritz

LLMTheory

Best Paper Award

Fairness through Difference Awareness: Measuring Desired Group Discrimination in LLMs

Wang, Phan, Ho, Koyejo

FairnessLLM

Best Paper Award

Language Models Resist Alignment: Evidence From Data Compression

Ji, Wang, Qiu, Chen, Zhou, Li, Lou, Dai, Liu, Yang

LLMAlignment

Best Paper Award

Native Sparse Attention: Hardware-Aligned and Natively Trainable Sparse Attention

Yuan, Gao, Dai, Luo, Zhao, Zhang, Xie, Wei, Wang, Xiao, Wang, Ruan, Zhang, Liang, Zeng

AttentionEfficiency

🏆 2024(2)

Best Paper Award

Aya Model: An Instruction Finetuned Open-Access Multilingual Language Model

Üstün et al.

MultilingualInstruction Tuning

Best Paper Award

Mission: Impossible Language Models

Kallini et al.

Language ModelsTheory

🏆 2023(3)

Best Paper Award

Do Androids Laugh at Electric Sheep? Humor Understanding Benchmarks from The New Yorker Caption Contest

Hessel et al.

HumorBenchmark

Best Paper Award

What the DAAM: Interpreting Stable Diffusion Using Cross Attention

Raphael Tang, Linqing Liu, Akshat Pandey, Zhiying Jiang, Gefei Yang, Karun Kumar, Pontus Stenetorp, Jimmy Lin

Best Paper Award

From Pretraining Data to Language Models to Downstream Tasks: Tracking the Trails of Political Biases Leading to Unfair NLP Models

Shangbin Feng, Chan Young Park, Yuhan Liu, Yulia Tsvetkov

Object Tracking

🏆 2022(4)

Best Paper Award

Learned Incremental Representations for Parsing

Kitaev et al.

ParsingRepresentations

Best Paper Award

Requirements and Motivations of Low-Resource Speech Synthesis for Language Revitalization

Aidan Pine, Dan Wells, Nathan Brinklow, Patrick William Littell, Korin Richmond

Speech SynthesisSynthesis

Best Paper Award

DiBiMT: A Novel Benchmark for Measuring Word Sense Disambiguation Biases in Machine Translation

Niccolò Campolungo, Federico Martelli, Francesco Saina, Roberto Navigli

Machine TranslationBenchmarkingWord Sense Disambiguation

Best Paper Award

KinyaBERT: a Morphology-aware Kinyarwanda Language Model

Antoine Nzeyimana, Andre Niyongabo Rubung

Language Models

🏆 2021(1)

Best Paper Award

Vocabulary Learning via Optimal Transport for Neural Machine Translation

Jingjing Xu, Hao Zhou, Chun Gan, Zaixiang Zheng, Lei Li

NLPmachine translationoptimal transport

🏆 2020(1)

Best Paper Award

Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP models with Checklist

Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Tongshuang Wu, Carlos Guestrin, Sameer Singh