Awards in data, AI and tech

Awards315Companies2,853

315 awards · 2,853 companies

Every award

ACL Best Paper Awards winners by year

ACL · Paper award · usually Jul or Aug · due Jul 2026, no newer edition read yet

Official page

Winners

202512 winners

A Theory of Response Sampling in LLMs: Part Descriptive and Part PrescriptiveBest paperSource ↗
Fairness through Difference Awareness: Measuring Desired Group Discrimination in LLMsBest paperSource ↗
Language Models Resist Alignment: Evidence From Data CompressionBest paperSource ↗
Native Sparse Attention: Hardware-Aligned and Natively Trainable Sparse AttentionBest paperSource ↗
AfriMed-QA: A Pan-African, Multi-Specialty, Medical Question-Answering Benchmark DatasetBest social impact paperSource ↗
The AI Gap: How Socioeconomic Status Affects Language Technology InteractionsBest social impact paperSource ↗
Are Rules Meant to be Broken? Understanding Multilingual Moral Reasoning as a Computational Pipeline with UniMoralBest resource paperSource ↗
BRIGHTER: BRIdging the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 LanguagesBest resource paperSource ↗
Palm: A Culturally Inclusive and Linguistically Diverse Dataset for Arabic LLMsBest resource paperSource ↗
MaCP: Minimal yet Mighty Adaptation via Hierarchical Cosine ProjectionBest theme paperSource ↗
Meta-rater: A Multi-dimensional Data Selection Method for Pre-training Language ModelsBest theme paperSource ↗
SubLIME: Subset Selection via Rank Correlation Prediction for Data-Efficient LLM EvaluationBest theme paperSource ↗

202414 winners

Mission: Impossible Language ModelsBest paperSource ↗
Semisupervised Neural Proto-Language ReconstructionBest paperSource ↗
Why are Sensitive Functions Hard for Transformers?Best paperSource ↗
Natural Language Satisfiability: Exploring the Problem Distribution and Evaluating Transformer-based Language ModelsBest paperSource ↗
Deciphering Oracle Bone Language with Diffusion ModelsBest paperSource ↗
Causal Estimation of Memorisation ProfilesBest paperSource ↗
Aya Model: An Instruction Finetuned Open-Access Multilingual Language ModelBest paperSource ↗
How Johnny Can Persuade LLMs to Jailbreak Them: Rethinking Persuasion to Challenge AI Safety by Humanizing LLMsBest social impact paperSource ↗
DIALECTBENCH: An NLP Benchmark for Dialects, Varieties, and Closely-Related LanguagesBest social impact paperSource ↗
Having Beer after Prayer? Measuring Cultural Bias in Large Language ModelsBest social impact paperSource ↗
Latxa: An Open Language Model and Evaluation Suite for BasqueBest resource paperSource ↗
Dolma: an Open Corpus of Three Trillion Tokens for Language Model Pretraining ResearchBest resource paperSource ↗
AppWorld: A Controllable World of Apps and People for Benchmarking Interactive Coding AgentsBest resource paperSource ↗
OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language ModelsBest theme paperSource ↗
About this award

Best, social impact, resource and theme papers at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

EditionAnnouncedWinnersSource
2025Jul 20251 year ago12
2024Aug 20242 years ago14

The next date is an estimate from the months past editions were announced (Jul or Aug); it changes when ACL announces one.

Date announcedSep 25, 2026Next edition expected Jul 2026 (was Jul 2025).
New winnersSep 25, 2026Editions 2024, 2025 loaded with 26 winners; the 2025 edition named 12 papers.
Award addedSep 25, 2026Now tracked: Best, social impact, resource and theme papers at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.