Congratulations to TDAI affiliates Yu Su and Micha Elsner, TDAI core faculty Huan Sun, and their students for receiving Outstanding Paper, an Area Chair Award, and two Honorable Mentions respectively at the Association for Computational Linguistics' 2023 conference in Toronto July 9-14! Less than 2% papers of papers reviewed were nominated for awards this year. See the full list of awards

Outstanding Paper: "Don’t Generate, Discriminate: A Proposal for Grounding Language Models to Real-World Environments,"
Yu Gu, Xiang Deng and Yu Su

Area Chair Award - Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics: "Exploring How Generative Adversarial Networks Learn Phonological Representations," Jingyi Chen and Micha Elsner

Honorable Mentions: 

• "Synthetic Text Generation with Differential Privacy: A Simple and Practical Recipe," Xiang Yue, Huseyin Inan, Xuechen Li, Girish Kumar, Julia McAnallen, Hoda Shajari, Huan Sun, David Levitan and Robert Sim
• "Towards Understanding Chain-of-Thought Prompting: An Empirical Study of What Matters," Boshi Wang, Sewon Min, Xiang Deng, Jiaming Shen, You Wu, Luke Zettlemoyer and Huan Sun