NAACL Best Paper Award winners by year

NAACL (North American Chapter of the ACL) · Paper award · usually Apr · due Apr 2026, no newer edition read yet

Winners

The BiGGen Bench: A Principled Benchmark for Fine-grained Evaluation of Language Models with Language ModelsBest Paper2025Source ↗

REL-A.I.: An Interaction-Centered Approach To Measuring Human-LM RelianceBest Paper Runner-Up2025Source ↗

About this award

Best paper award of the annual conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, chosen by a blind best paper committee.

Edition	Announced	Winners	Source
2025	Apr 20251 year ago	2

The next date is an estimate from the months past editions were announced (Apr); it changes when NAACL (North American Chapter of the ACL) announces one.

Date announcedSep 25, 2026Next edition expected Apr 2026 (was Apr 2027).

New winnersSep 25, 20262 papers named in the 2025 edition.

Award addedSep 25, 2026Now tracked: Best paper award of the annual conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.