Yoav Artzi, associate professor of computer science at Cornell Tech and the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, has received the Test of Time Award as part of the inaugural Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) Paper Awards. The award was announced at the ACL 2025 conference, a leading international event for research in natural language processing, which took place in Vienna, Austria, from July 27 to August 1.
The Test of Time Award recognizes research that continues to shape the field years after its publication. Artzi was honored for his 2013 paper, Weakly Supervised Learning of Semantic Parsers for Mapping Instructions to Actions, alongside co-author Luke Zettlemoyer, professor at the University of Washington.
The paper’s approach has become foundational in building AI systems that interact naturally with people, influencing technologies ranging from voice assistants to robotics. The award recognizes the paper’s lasting impact on the field of natural language understanding and its role in advancing instruction-following capabilities in artificial intelligence.
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