This award was given to André Martins because of his work titled “Turbo Parsers: Dependency Parsing by Approximate Variational Inference.” André Martins finished his Ph.D. in Language Technologies at the Instituto Superior Técnico of the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (IST/UTL) and Carnegie Mellon University, in the scope of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program.
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