28.2292, FYI: Call for Nominations: Karen Spärck Jones Award 2017

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Subject: 28.2292, FYI: Call for Nominations: Karen Spärck Jones Award 2017

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Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 14:08:33
From: Udo Kruschwitz [udo at essex.ac.uk]
Subject: Call for Nominations: Karen Spärck Jones Award 2017

Call for nominations for the Microsoft BCS/BCS IRSG Karen Spärck Jones Award
2017

Closing date: 12 September

An award to commemorate Karen Spärck Jones

Karen was a Professor Emerita 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 Information Retrieval
Specialist Group (BCS IRSG) in conjunction with the BCS  has established an
annual award to encourage and promote talented researchers who have
endeavoured to advance our understanding of Information Retrieval and/or
Natural Language Processing with significant experimental contributions.

Eligibility: Open to all IR/NLP researchers, who have no more than 10 years
post doctoral or equivalent experience at the closing date for nominations
(non-research times, eg, parental leave or career breaks, will be taken into
account).

Criterion: 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
- Short case for the award, not to exceed 2500 words, highlighting the
contributions the individual has made
- List of the individual's top five publications reflecting the relevant
contributions, and role within these
- At most two supporting letters from people who would like to
encourage/support the nomination

Nominations should be emailed to the panel chair below. The support letters
can be e-mailed separately by the referees. It is possible for individuals to
nominate themselves, in which case they should provide three support letters.

Award Panel: The Award 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.

Prize: The recipient of the award will receive a certificate, a trophy, a cash
prize of £1000 plus expenses to travel to ECIR.

Timeline for the 2017 Award to be presented at ECIR 2018:

- 12 September 2017 - closing date for nominations
- 26 September 2017 - deadline for support letters
- 14 December 2017 - notification of the prize recipient
- 25-29 March 2018 - recipient presents keynote at ECIR

Sponsors: Currently, the award is being sponsored by the BCS IRSG and
Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Award Panel Chair: Udo Kruschwitz, udo at essex.ac.uk, University of Essex, UK

Previous recipients: See http://irsg.bcs.org/ksjaward.php

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

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