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雷锋网AI科技评论按：自然语言处理最大顶会 ACL 2019 将于7月28日至8月2日在意大利佛罗伦萨举行。今天，ACL 2019 官方网站公布了入围论文奖项的候选名单。其中有17篇入围最佳长文奖候选者，11篇入围最佳短文奖候选者，4篇入围最佳演示奖。
最佳论文奖将于7月31日（星期三，意大利时间17：50-18：20）的会议闭幕环节上公布。最终将共有8篇文章入选，分别为：
最佳长文奖（The Best Long Paper），1篇
最佳短文奖（The Best Short Paper），1篇
最佳演示奖（The Best Demo Paper），1篇
杰出论文奖（Outstanding Paper award），5篇
雷锋网注意到，在这32篇文章中有14篇论文的第一作者是华人学者/学生。其中9篇是最佳长文奖候选者，占到一半以上。
值得关注的是，以下论文来自国内高校院所或研究单位：
1、南京理工大学，夏睿团队
ID: 2714 (long, oral 2D, M14:50)
Title: Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction: A New Task to Emotion Analysis in Texts.
Authors: Rui Xia and Zixiang Ding
2、华为诺亚方舟实验室，刘群团队
ID: 2366 (long, oral 5A, T14:50)
Title: Decomposable Neural Paraphrase Generation
Authors: Zichao Li, Xin Jiang, Lifeng Shang and Qun Liu
3、中科院计算所/腾讯/华为/伍斯特理工学院
ID 1637 (long, oral 6D, W10:50)
Title: Bridging the Gap between Training and Inference for Neural Machine Translation.
Authors: Wen Zhang, Yang Feng, Fandong Meng, Di You and Qun Liu
4、浙江大学/加州大学戴维斯分校/宾夕法尼亚大学
ID: 2577 (long, oral 8A, W17:00)
Title: Persuasion for Good: Towards a Personalized Persuasive Dialogue System for Social Good.
Authors: Xuewei Wang, Weiyan Shi, Richard Kim, Yoojung Oh, Sijia Yang, Jingwen Zhang and Zhou Yu
其中，华为诺亚方舟实验室刘群有两篇文章入选，值得期待。究竟哪篇将入选最佳论文，雷锋网AI科技评论将在现场 打赌 报道。
提名论文按照会议报告的时间顺序，如下：
ID: 1440 (long, poster 1A, M10:30-12:10)
Title: Detecting Concealed Information in Text and Speech
Authors: Shengli Hu
ID: 1502 (long, oral 1B, M11:10)
Title: AMR Parsing as Sequence-to-Graph Transduction.
Authors: Sheng Zhang, Xutai Ma, Kevin Duh and Benjamin Van Durme
ID: 837 (short, oral 1A, M11:30)
Title: Do Neural Dialog Systems Use the Conversation History Effectively? An Empirical Study.
Authors: Chinnadhurai Sankar, Sandeep Subramanian, Chris Pal, Sarath Chandar and Yoshua Bengio
ID: 671 (long, oral 2A, M13:50)
Title: Transferable Multi-Domain State Generator for Task-Oriented
Authors: Chien-Sheng Wu, Andrea Madotto, Ehsan Hosseini-Asl, Caiming Xiong, Richard Socher and Pascale Fung
Demo (demo session 1, M13:50-15.30)
Title: GLTR: Statistical Detection and Visualization of Generated Text
Authors: Sebastian Gehrmann, Hendrik Strobelt and Alexander Rush
Demo (demo session 1, M13:50-15.30)
Title: Texar: A Modularized, Versatile, and Extensible Toolkit for Text Generation
Authors: Zhiting Hu, Haoran Shi, Bowen Tan, Wentao Wang, Zichao Yang, Tiancheng Zhao, Junxian He, Lianhui Qin, Di Wang, Xuezhe Ma, Zhengzhong Liu, Xiaodan Liang, Wanrong Zhu, Devendra Sachan and Eric Xing
ID: 1658 (long, oral 2E, M14:50)
Title: A Simple Theoretical Model of Importance for Summarization
Authors: Maxime Peyrard
ID: 2714 (long, oral 2D, M14:50)
Title: Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction: A New Task to Emotion Analysis in Texts.
Authors: Rui Xia and Zixiang Ding
ID: 203 (long, oral 2A, M15:10)
Title: OpenDialKG: Explainable Conversational Reasoning with Attention-based Walks over Knowledge Graphs.
Authors: Seungwhan Moon, Pararth Shah, Anuj Kumar and Rajen Subba
ID: 861 (long, oral 3E, M16:00)
Title: Visually Grounded Neural Syntax Acquisition
Authors: Haoyue Shi, Jiayuan Mao, Kevin Gimpel and Karen Livescu
ID: 1213 (long, oral 3D, M16:20)
Title: Neural Fuzzy Repair: Integrating Fuzzy Matches into Neural Machine Translation.
Authors: Bram Bulte and Arda Tezcan
ID: 1505 (long, oral 3F, M16:40)
Title: Boosting Entity Linking Performance by Leveraging Unlabeled Documents.
Authors: Phong Le and Ivan Titov
ID: 525 (long, oral 3C, M16:40)
Title: Meaning to Form: Measuring Systematicity as Information.
Authors: Tiago Pimentel, Arya D. McCarthy, Damian Blasi, Brian Roark and Ryan Cotterell
ID: 700 (short, oral 3A, M17:13)
Title: The Risk of Racial Bias in Hate Speech Detection
Authors: Maarten Sap, Dallas Card, Saadia Gabriel, Yejin Choi and Noah A. Smith
ID: 2100 (short, oral 3A, M17:26)
Title: Evaluating Gender Bias in Machine Translation.
Authors: Gabriel Stanovsky, Noah A. Smith and Luke Zettlemoyer
ID: 2648 (short, oral 4C, T11:30)
Title: We need to talk about standard splits
Authors: Kyle Gorman and Steven Bedrick
ID: 2017 (long, oral 5C, T14:30)
Title: Scalable Syntax-Aware Language Models Using Knowledge Distillation.
Authors: Adhiguna Kuncoro, Chris Dyer, Laura Rimell, Stephen Clark and Phil Blunsom
ID: 733 (short, oral 5C, T14:50)
Title: An Imitation Learning Approach to Unsupervised Parsing.
Authors: Bowen Li, Lili Mou, Frank Keller
ID: 1439 (long, oral 5B, T14:50)
Title: Zero-Shot Entity Linking by Reading Entity Descriptions
Authors: Lajanugen Logeswaran, Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee, Kristina Toutanova, Jacob Devlin and Honglak Lee
ID: 2366 (long, oral 5A, T14:50)
Title: Decomposable Neural Paraphrase Generation
Authors: Zichao Li, Xin Jiang, Lifeng Shang and Qun Liu
ID: 2337 (short, oral 5E, T15:16)
Title: Improving Visual Question Answering by Referring to Generated Paragraph Captions.
Authors: Hyounghun Kim and Mohit Bansal
ID: 799 (long, oral 6D, W10:30)
Title: Robust Neural Machine Translation with Doubly Adversarial Inputs.
Authors: Yong Cheng, Lu Jiang and Wolfgang Macherey
ID 1637 (long, oral 6D, W10:50)
Title: Bridging the Gap between Training and Inference for Neural Machine Translation.
Authors: Wen Zhang, Yang Feng, Fandong Meng, Di You and Qun Liu
ID: 2247 (short, oral 6C, W11:30)
Title: Towards Near-imperceptible Steganographic Text
Authors: Falcon Dai and Zheng Cai
ID: 724 (short, oral 6A, W11:43)
Title: Do you know that Florence is packed with visitors? Evaluating state-of-the-art models of speaker commitment.
Authors: Nanjiang Jiang and Marie-Catherine de Marneffe
Demo (demo session 3, W13:50-15.30)
Title: OpenKiwi: An Open Source Framework for Quality Estimation
Authors: Fabio Kepler, Jonay Trenous, Marcos Treviso, Miguel Vera and André F. T. Martins
Demo (demo session 3, W13:50-15.30)
Title: ConvLab: Multi-Domain End-to-End Dialog System Platform
Authors: Sungjin Lee, Qi Zhu, Ryuichi Takanobu, Zheng Zhang, Yaoqin Zhang, Xiang Li, Jinchao Li, Baolin Peng, Xiujun Li, Minlie Huang and Jianfeng Gao
ID: 1473 (short, oral 7E, W14:50)
Title: Studying Summarization Evaluation Metrics in the Appropriate Scoring Range
Author: Maxime Peyrard
ID: 2573 (short, oral 7C, W15:16)
Title: Bilingual Lexicon Induction through Unsupervised Machine Translation.
Authors: Mikel Artetxe, Gorka Labaka and Eneko Agirre
ID: 1441 (long, oral 8B, W16:00)
Title: Zero-shot Word Sense Disambiguation using Sense Definition Embeddings
Authors: Sawan Kumar, Sharmistha Jat, Karan Saxena and Partha Talukdar
ID: 2577 (long, oral 8A, W17:00)
Title: Persuasion for Good: Towards a Personalized Persuasive Dialogue System for Social Good.
Authors: Xuewei Wang, Weiyan Shi, Richard Kim, Yoojung Oh, Sijia Yang, Jingwen Zhang and Zhou Yu
ID: 1340 (short, oral 8C, W17:13 )
Title: Corpus-based Check-up for Thesaurus
Author: Natalia Loukachevitch
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