On 14th August 2018, Hitomi Yanaka (D3), Department of Systems Innovation, received Best paper award in the ESSLLI-2018 workshop on NLP in the Era of Big Data, Deep Learning and Post Truth.

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Best paper award in the ESSLLI-2018 (European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information: http://esslli2018.folli.info/) workshop on NLP in the Era of Big Data, Deep Learning and Post Truth (http://alt.qcri.org/esslli2018-nlp-era/index.php?id=workshop-programme)
<About awarded research>
Towards understanding bilingual textual entailment and similarity
<Comments>
I am delighted to be chosen for this award. I greatly appreciate the support of my team members and family.