The paper "Decoding the Perception of Sincerity in Written Dialogues," written by Roxana Girju, an associate professor of linguistics and member of the Illinois Language and Literacy Initiative at Beckman, and Codruta Garlea, a graduate research assistant, received awards for Best Student Paper and "Best of ACII" at the 7th Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Conference (ACII), held in October in San Antonio.