14.2327, FYI: Lexography

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Subject: 14.2327, FYI: Lexography

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Date:  Mon, 1 Sep 2003 10:55:46 +0200 (MEST)
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Subject:  Please distribute to your mailing list: Laurence Urdang Award

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Subject:  Please distribute to your mailing list: Laurence Urdang Award

2003 Award
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:	2003 Laurence Urdang Award


Announcement: Invitation to submit applications

Applications are invited for the Laurence Urdang Award (formerly
Verbatim-Award), administered by EURALEX, for the purpose of
supporting unpaid lexicographical work of any type, including
study. An individual award may vary in size from 250.- GBP to 1,500.-
GBP.

The key dates are:
October 30, 2003 Receipt of applications
January 2004 Notification of results
February 23, 2004 Presentation of Award(s)


Applications should take the form of:
1. A statement specifying the amount applied for;
2. A statement giving full details of the purpose to which the
   funds would be put, and an indication of expected tangible
   results (e.g. data, lexicon entries, publications)
3. A curriculum vitae including qualifications, details of
   previous lexicographical or related work, and publications;
4. One professional or academic reference (letter or details
   of a person to contact for receiving a letter);
5. Details of funding received or applied for in relation to
   the project for which the Laurence Urdang Award is being sought.

Four copies of the entire application should be sent to:

    * 2003 Laurence Urdang Award
      EURALEX Assistant Secretary-Treasurer
      Dr. Ulrich Heid,
      Universitaet Stuttgart
      Institut fuer maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung
      -- Computerlinguistik --
      Azenbergstrasse 12
      D-70174 Stuttgart
      Germany
      Fax:+49-711-121-1366
      Email: Ulrich Heid

Applications may additionally be sent by electronic mail or fax.
Paper versions are however strongly preferred.

The Award is open to EURALEX members only, but applications will be
accepted from people who have applied for EURALEX membership and are
awaiting confirmation of this. If you want to join EURALEX, please
write (with a copy to the Assistant Secretary-Treasurer) to:

    * Ms Paula Thomson
      EURALEX Membership Secretary
      Oxford University Press
      Journals Subscription Department
      Great Clarendon Street
      Oxford OX2 6DP
      United Kingdom
      Fax: +44-1865-267485
      Email: thomsonp at oup.co.uk

The Selection Panel consists of the EURALEX President, Thierry
Fontenelle, and two past presidents Krista Varantola and H.Be'joint.



Objectives of the LUA

   1. All languages are eligible: no proposal should be preferred over
      another one on the grounds of language coverage.
   2. The Laurence Urdang EURALEX Award is aimed at the support of unpaid
      lexicographic work. It is not supposed to co-finance lexicographic
      work paid from other sources.
   3. The Award ist not supposed to cover the organisation of conferences
      or workshops. See however the notes on teaching below.
   4. The Award is supposed to make things happen or to support ongoing
      lexicographic work rather than to come up post hoc for expenses
      incurred earlier.


Selection criteria for LUA Awardees applied by the EURALEX reviewers

Main criteria

   1. Scientific and lexicographic qualitiy of the project. Evidently,
      the proposed project should be scientifically sound, lexicographically
      feasible and in some sense innovative, and it should be clear from
      the proposal that the project can indeed lead to good results.
   2. Scientific standing for the applicant: The proposer should be able
      to carry out the project and to provide the expected scientific
      quality. He or she should have a relevant track record, linguistic
      and/or lexicographic, which allows the reviewers to assess his or
      her standing. If necessary, a statement from a referee can be obtained.

Additional criteria

   1. The more lexicographical, the more relevant to the mission of the
      Laurence Urdang Award: Auxiliary tasks such as corpus gathering,
      corpus exploration, tool building, information gathering (for example
      compiling a bibliography, exploring a library etc.), meta-lexicographic
      work, teaching of lexicography, etc., are eligible in exceptional cases,
      but they are not seen as a priority in themselves. The main objective
      of the Laurence Urdang Award is to support dictionary building work,
      more than auxiliary tasks such as the above mentioned ones.
   2. The broader the group of people who profit from the result, the better.
      If a single researcher pays the travel expenses to participate at a
      meeting, conference etc., this is the exceptional case eligible, but
      less central to the mission of the Laurence Urdang Award than the use
      of the money for an activity of a lexicographer, which thereafter has
      an impact on a broader community.
   3. Support for workload is preferred over support for hardware and/or
      software. Workload will be devoted to a particular dictionary project,
      whereas hardware or software can be reused in other projects as well,
      and could also be supported by those who support the other projects.



Procedures and Deadlines

    * Submission: by October 30th, 2003
    * Selection results: ca. January/February 2004
    * Payments: February 2004

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