Best Paper Awards

The Best Paper Awards recognise outstanding papers at EACL 2024. The best paper awards were selected following the ACL awards policy.

The following papers have been given awards.

Best Paper Award

• LOCOST: State-Space Models for Long Document Abstractive Summarization.
  Florian Le Bronnec, Song Duong, Mathieu Ravaut, Alexandre Allauzen, Nancy Chen, Vincent Guigue, Alberto Lumbreras, Laure Soulier, Patrick Gallinari.

Best Non-Publicized Paper Award

• Leak, Cheat, Repeat: Data Contamination and Evaluation Malpractices in Closed-Source LLMs.
  Simone Balloccu, Patrícia Schmidtová, Mateusz Lango, Ondrej Dusek.

Outstanding Papers

• Semantic Sensitivities and Inconsistent Predictions: Measuring the Fragility of NLI Models.
  Erik Arakelyan, Zhaoqi Liu, Isabelle Augenstein.

• MLCopilot: Unleashing the Power of Large Language Models in Solving Machine Learning Tasks.
  Lei Zhang, Yuge Zhang, Kan Ren, Dongsheng Li, Yuqing Yang.

• Kardeş-NLU: Transfer to Low-Resource Languages with Big Brother’s Help – A Benchmark and Evaluation for Turkic Languages.
  Lütfi Kerem Senel, Benedikt Ebing, Konul Baghirova, Hinrich Schuetze, Goran Glavaš.

• Centering the Speech Community.
  Steven Bird, Dean Yibarbuk.

Evaluation and Model Insight Award

• Diffusion-NAT: Self-Prompting Discrete Diffusion for Non-Autoregressive Text Generation
  Kun Zhou, Yifan Li, Xin Zhao, Ji-Rong Wen.

Resource Paper Award

• M4: Multi-generator, Multi-domain, and Multi-lingual Black-Box Machine-Generated Text Detection
  Yuxia Wang, Jonibek Mansurov, Petar Ivanov, Jinyan Su, Artem Shelmanov, Akim Tsvigun, Chenxi Whitehouse, Osama Mohammed Afzal, Tarek Mahmoud, Toru Sasaki, Thomas Arnold, Alham Aji, Nizar Habash, Iryna Gurevych, Preslav Nakov.

Low-Resource Paper Award

• Quality Does Matter: A Detailed Look at the Quality and Utility of Web-Mined Parallel Corpora
  Surangika Ranathunga, Nisansa De Silva, Velayuthan Menan, Aloka Fernando, Charitha Rathnayake.

Social Impact Award

• Sensitivity, Performance, Robustness: Deconstructing the Effect of Sociodemographic Prompting
  Tilman Beck, Hendrik Schuff, Anne Lauscher, Iryna Gurevych.

Best System Demonstration

• Multi-party Multimodal Conversations Between Patients, Their Companions, and a Social Robot in a Hospital Memory Clinic
  Angus Addlesee, Neeraj Cherakara, Nivan Nelson, Daniel Hernandez Garcia, Nancie Gunson, Weronika Sieińska, Christian Dondrup, Oliver Lemon.

Congratulations to all!