LINGUIST List 23.26 Tue Jan 03 2012 FYI: Call for Nominations - Karen Spärck Jones Award Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Ayse Goker , Call for Nominations - Karen Spärck Jones Award Message 1: Call for Nominations - Karen Spärck Jones Award Date: 23-Dec-2011 From: Ayse Goker <ayse.goker.1soi.city.ac.uk> Subject: Call for Nominations - Karen Spärck Jones Award E-mail this message to a friend Call for Nominations BCS / BCS IRSG Karen Spärck Jones Award An Award to Commemorate Karen Spärck Jones The British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG) in conjunction with the BCS has created an award to commemorate the achievements of Karen Spärck Jones. Karen was a Professor Emeritus of Computers and Information at the University of Cambridge and one of the most remarkable women in computer science. Her contributions to the fields of Information Retrieval (IR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), especially with regard to experimentation, have been outstanding and highly influential. Karen’s achievements resulted in her receiving a number of prestigious accolades such as the BCS Lovelace medal, for her advancement in Information Systems, and the ACM Salton Award for her significant, sustained and continuing contributions to research in information retrieval. In order to honour Karen’s achievements, the BCS/BCS-IRSG has established an annual award to encourage and promote talented researchers who have endeavoured to advance our understanding of Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing with significant experimental contributions. To celebrate the commemorative event, the recipient of the award will be invited to present a keynote lecture at the BCS-IRSG’s annual conference – the European Conference in Information Retrieval (ECIR). This forum provides an excellent venue to present and announce the award as the conference attracts many new and younger researchers. The recipient will also be presented with a prize consisting of a certificate, a trophy and a cash prize of £1000 plus expenses to travel to ECIR. BCS/BCS-IRSG Karen Spärck Jones Award: Eligibility: Open to all IR/NLP researchers, who have no more than 10 years’ post doctoral or equivalent experience. Criteria: To have endeavoured to advance our understanding of IR and/or NLP through experimentation. Nominations: The following should be provided: - name of nominee, position, affiliation, years since completing PhD; - name of person proposing the nominee, position, and affiliation; - a short case for the award (composed of a short description of why the individual should receive the award); - a short description of what contributions the individual has made; - a list of the individual’s top five publications reflecting the relevant contributions, and role within these. Please note that the nomination text should not exceed 2500 words. - Additionally, two supporting letters (i.e. reference letters) from people who would like to encourage/support the nomination must be provided, along with their contact details. Please note that the person preparing the nomination case should submit these letters along with the nomination in this year’s process. Nominations should be emailed to the contact below, and seek confirmation of receipt. It is advisable that you notify us as soon as possible of an intention to nominate an individual as this will help with planning. It is possible for individuals to nominate themselves, though this is less encouraged – as in the least, this will mean there is one less person supporting the nomination case. Award Panel: The Panel Chair, appointed by the BCS IRSG Committee, will invite panel members from amongst representatives of the BCS main council, the BCS-IRSG Committee, sponsoring organisation(s), as well as at least two experts appointed by the BCS-IRSG committee and the Awards Coordinator of the BCS-IRSG. Prize: The recipient of the award will receive a certificate, a trophy, a cash prize of £1000 plus expenses to travel to ECIR to present the keynote lecture. Presentation: The recipient of the award is expected to give a keynote lecture at ECIR when he/she will also be presented with their trophy, and cash prize. Timeline (for the 2011 Award to be presented in 2012): 20 April, 2011 - Call for nominations. 20 January, 2012 - Deadline for nominations. 31 January, 2012 - Notification of the prize winner. 1-5 April, 2012 - Winner presents keynote at ECIR. Sponsors: Currently, the award is being sponsored by the BCS IRSG and Microsoft Research Cambridge. Contact: Ayse Göker, ayse.goker.1soi.city.ac.uk Dr. Ayse Goker Centre for Interactive Systems Research Department of Information Science School of Informatics City University Northampton Square London EC1V OHB United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0) 207040 8389 Email:ayse.goker.1soi.city.ac.uk www.soi.city.ac.uk/is/research/cisr www.soi.city.ac.uk/~sbbb872 Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 03-Jan-2012       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.