31.439, FYI: Call for Nominations: E. W. Beth Outstanding Dissertation Prize 2020

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Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 13:41:33
From: Aurelie Herbelot [aurelie.herbelot at unitn.it]
Subject: Call for Nominations: E. W. Beth Outstanding Dissertation Prize 2020

 
Since 2002, the Association for Logic, Language, and Information (FoLLI) has
been awarding the annual E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding Ph.D.
dissertations in Logic, Language, and Information
(http://www.folli.info/?page_id=74), with financial support of the E.W. Beth
Foundation
(https://www.knaw.nl/en/awards/funds/evert-willem-beth-stichting/evert-willem-
beth-foundation).
Nominations are now invited for the best dissertation in these areas resulting
in a Ph.D. degree awarded in 2019.

The deadline for nominations is the 15 of April 2020.

Qualifications:

- A dissertation is eligible for the Beth Dissertation Prize 2020, if the
Ph.D. degree has been awarded in Logic, Language, or Information between
January 1st and December 31st, 2019.
- There are no restrictions on the nationality, ethnicity, age, gender or
employment status of the author of the nominated dissertation, nor on the
university, academic department or scientific institution formally conferring
the Ph.D. degree, nor on the language in which the dissertation has originally
been written.
-  In accordance with the aim of the Beth Foundation to continue and extend
the work of the Dutch logician Evert Willem Beth, nominations are invited of
excellent dissertations on current topics in philosophical and mathematical
logic, computer science logic, philosophy of science, philosophy of language,
history of logic, history of the philosophy of science and scientific
philosophy in general, as well as the current theoretical and foundational
developments in information and computation, language and cognition.
Dissertations with results more broadly impacting various research areas in
their interdisciplinary investigations are especially solicited.
-  If a nominated dissertation has originally been written in a language other
than English, its dossier should still contain the
required 10 page English abstract, see below. If the committee decidesthat a
nominated dissertation in a language other than English requires translation
to English for proper evaluation, the committee can transfer its nomination to
the competition in 2021. The English translation must in such cases be
submitted before the deadline of the call for nominations in 2021. The
committee may recommend the Beth Foundation to consider supporting such
nominated dissertations for English translation, upon request by the author of
the dissertation.

The prize consists of:
- a certificate
- a donation of 3000 euros, provided by the E.W. Beth Foundation
- an invitation to submit the dissertation, possibly after revision, for
publication in FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information
(Springer).

Only digital submissions are accepted, without exception. Hard copy
submissions are not allowed. The following documents are to be submitted in
the nomination dossier:

- The original dissertation in pdf format (ps/doc/rtf etc. not acceptable).
- A ten-page English abstract of the dissertation, presenting the main results
of each chapter.
- A letter of nomination from the dissertation supervisor, which concisely
describes the scope and significance of the dissertation,
stating when the degree was officially awarded and the members of the Ph.D.
committee. Nominations should contain the address, phone and email details of
the nominator.
- Two additional letters of support, including at least one from a referee not
affiliated with the academic institution that awarded the
Ph.D. degree, nor otherwise related to the nominee (e.g. former teachers,
supervisors, co-authors, publishers or relatives) or the
dissertation.
- Self-nominations are not possible.

All pdf documents must be submitted electronically, as one zip file, via
EasyChair by following the link
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdp2020. In case of any problems with
the submission one should contact the chair of the committee Mehrnoosh
Sadrzadeh (m.sadrzadeh at ucl.ac.uk).
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Computational Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Philosophy of Language





 



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