| Year | Author | Paper Title |
| 2001 | Eugene Charniak | Immediate-head parsing for language models |
| 2001 | Ulrich Germann, Michael Jahr, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu, and Kenji Yamada | Fast Decoding and Optimal Decoding for Machine Translation |
| 2002 | Franz Och and Hermann Ney | Discriminative Traing and Maximum Entropy Models for Statistical Machine Translation |
| 2003 | Dan Klein and Chris Manning | Accurate Unlexicalized Parsing |
| 2003 | Yukiko Nakano, Gabe Reinstein, Tom Stocky, and Justine Cassell | Towards a Model of Face-to-Face Grounding |
| 2004 | Diana McCarthy, Rob Koeling, Julie Weeds, and John Carroll | Finding Predominant Word Senses in Untagged Text |
| 2005 | David Chiang | A hierarchical phrase-based model for statistical machine translation |
| 2006 | Rion Snow, Dan Jurafsky, and Andrew Y. Ng | Semantic taxonomy induction from heterogenous evidence |
| 2007 | Y. W. Wong and R. J. Mooney | Learning synchronous grammars for semantic parsing with lambda calculus |
| 2008 | Liang Huang | Forest Reranking: Discriminative Parsing with Non-Local Features |
| 2008 | Libin Shen, Jinxi Xu and Ralph Weischedel | A New String-to-Dependency Machine Translation Algorithm with a Target Dependency Language Model |
| 2009 | Andre Martins, Noah Smith and Eric Xing | Concise Integer Linear Programming Formulations for Dependency Parsing |
| 2009 | S.R.K. Branavan, Harr Chen, Luke Zettlemoyer and Regina Barzilay | Reinforcement Learning for Mapping Instructions to Actions |
| 2009 | Adam Pauls and Dan Klein | K-Best A* Parsing |
| 2010 | Matthew Gerber and Joyce Chai (Best long paper) | Beyond NomBank: A Study of Implicit Arguments for Nominal Predicates |
| 2010 | Michael Lamar, Yariv Maron, Mark Johnson, Elie Bienenstock (Best short paper) | Beyond NomBank: A Study of Implicit Arguments for Nominal Predicates |
| 2011 | Dipanjan Das and Slav Petrov (Best long paper) | Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging with Bilingual Graph-Based Projections |
| 2011 | Jonathan Berant, Ido Dagan and Jacob Goldberger (Best student long paper) | Global Learning of Typed Entailment Rules |
| 2011 | Brian Roark, Richard Sproat and Izhak Shafran (Best short paper) | Lexicographic Semirings for Exact Automata Encoding of Sequence Models |
| Year | Author | Paper Title |
| 2004 | Regina Barzilay, MIT, and Lillian Lee, Cornell | Catching the Drift: Probabilistic Content Models, with Applications to Generation and Summarization |
| 2006 | Mehryar Mohri and Brian Roark | Probabilistic Context-Free Grammar Induction Based on Structural Zeros |
| 2006 | Aria Haghighi and Dan Klein | Prototype-Driven Learning for Sequence Models |
| 2007 | Antti-Veikko Rosti, Bing Xiang, Spyros Matsoukas, Richard Schwartz, Necip Fazil Ayan and Bonnie Dorr | Combining Outputs from Multiple Machine Translation Systems |
| 2009 | Hoifung Poon, Colin Cherry and Kristina Toutanova | Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation with Log-Linear Models |
| 2009 | David Chiang, Kevin Knight and Wei Wang | 11,001 New Features for Statistical Machine Translation |
| 2010 | Jennifer Foster (Best short paper) | “cba to check the spelling”: Investigating Parser Performance on Discussion Forum Posts |
| 2010 | Aria Haghighi and Dan Klein (Best long paper) | Coreference Resolution in a Modular, Entity-Centered Model |
| Year | Author | Paper Title |
| 2002 | Michael Collins | Discriminative Training Methods for Hidden Markov Models: Theory and Experiments with Perceptron Algorithms |
| 2002 | Frank Keller, Maria Lapata, and Olga Ourioupina | Using the Web to Overcome Data Sparseness |
| 2003 | Peng Xu, Ahmad Emami and Frederick Jelinek | Training Connectionist Models for the Structured Language Model |
| 2004 | Ben Taskar, Dan Klein, Michael Collins, Daphne Koller, and Christopher Manning | Max-Margin Parsing |
| 2005 (best student paper) | Ryan McDonald, Fernando Pereira, Kiril Ribarov and Jan Hajic | Non-Projective Dependency Parsing using Spanning Tree Algorithms |
| 2006 | no award given | |
| 2007 | James Clarke and Maria Lapata | Modelling Compression with Discourse Constraints |
| 2008 | no award given | |
| 2009 | Hoifung Poon and Pedro Domingos | Unsupervised semantic parsing |
| 2010 | Terry Koo, Alexander M. Rush, Michael Collins, Tommi Jaakkola and David Sontag | Dual Decomposition for Parsing with Non-Projective Head Automata |
| 2011 | Wei Lu and Hwee Tou Ng | A Probabilistic Forest-to-String Model for Language Generation from Typed Lambda Calculus Expressions |