[Corpora-List] Final Call: Karen Sp=?windows-1252?Q?=E4rck_?=Jones Award - Call for Nominations

[Kruschwitz U]

The Award is open to all nationalities for those with up to and 
including 10 years' experience.

Deadline: 20 January, 2012

Details also available on:
http://irsg.bcs.org/ksjaward/KSJ%20Award%20Flyer_Nov2011upd.pdf
http://irsg.bcs.org/ksjaward.php


-------- 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.1 at soi.city.ac.uk

Details also available on:

http://irsg.bcs.org/ksjaward.php

http://irsg.bcs.org/ksjaward/KSJ%20Award%20Flyer_Nov2011upd.pdf


-- 
Dr Udo Kruschwitz
University of Essex
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
CO4 3SQ
U.K.




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