The best paper finalist:

1.      Thuy Linh Nguyen, Stephan Vogel and Noah A. Smith, Nonparametric Word Segmentation for Machine Translation, CMU, USA

2.      Toyomi Meguro, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Minami and Kohji Dohsaka, Controlling Listening-oriented Dialogue using Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes, NTT, Japan

3.      Fan Bu, Xiaoyan Zhu and Ming Li, Measuring the Non-compositionality of Multiword Expressions, Tsinghua, China

4.      Alena Neviarouskaya, Helmut Prendinger and Mitsuru Ishizuka, Recognition of Affect, Judgment, and Appreciation in Text, University of Tokyo, Japan

 

The best paper award:

Fan Bu, Xiaoyan Zhu and Ming Li, Measuring the Non-compositionality of Multiword Expressions, Tsinghua, China

中国办的就是不一样，最佳论文被中国人拿了。