[Corpora-List] EAMT Best Thesis Award: Now open to non-members

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Following a decision by the EAMT Executive Committee in its June 7 
meeting, the eligibillity requirements have been modified so that the 
prize is now open to European, Middle-Eastern and North African 
researchers that are not members of the EAMT.

The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT, 
http://www.eamt.org) is an organization that serves the growing 
community of people interested in MT and translation tools, including 
users, developers, and researchers of this increasingly viable technology.
The EAMT invites entries for its fifth EAMT Best Thesis Award for a PhD 
or equivalent thesis on a topic related to machine translation.

*Eligibility*

Researchers who
.    have submitted a PhD (or equivalent) thesis on a relevant topic in 
an European, Northern African[1] or Middle Eastern[2] institution within 
calendar year 2013,
.    have successfully obtained the PhD or equivalent degree, and
.    have not previously won a similar award,
are invited to submit their theses to the EAMT for consideration.

*Panel*

The submissions will be judged by a panel of experts who are EAMT 
members and are appointed by the Executive Committee of the EAMT.

*Selection Criteria*

Each thesis will be judged according to how challenging the problem was, 
to how relevant the results are for machine translation as a field, and 
to the strength of their impact in terms of scientific publications.

*Scope*

The scope of the thesis need not be confined to a technical area, and 
applications are also invited from students who carried out their 
research into commercial and management aspects of machine translation.
Possible areas of research might include:
.    development of machine translation or advanced computer-assisted 
translation systems: software and resources
.    machine translation for less-resourced languages
.    the use of these systems in professional environments (freelance 
translators, translation agencies, localisation, etc.)
.    the increasing impact of machine translation on non-professional 
Internet users and its impact in communications, social networking, etc.
.    machine translation and post-editing
.    spoken language translation
.    the integration of machine translation and translation memory systems
.    the integration of machine translation software in larger IT 
applications
.    the evaluation of machine translation systems in real tasks such as 
those above
.    the cross-fertilisation between machine translation and other 
language technologies

Prize

The winner will be announced by the end of March, 2014, and will receive 
a prize of EUR500, together with a suitably-inscribed certificate, and 
will receive free EAMT membership for two years. In addition, the 
recipient of the award will be required to briefly present their 
research at the Annual Conference of the European Association for 
Machine Translation in June 2014 (venue to be determined). In order to 
facilitate this, the EAMT will waive the winner's registration costs, 
and will make available a travel bursary of EUR200 to enable the 
recipient of the award to attend the said conference.

*Submission*

Should you wish to enter your thesis, please use the following link: 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamtbta2013 to submit a 
single PDF file containing, in this order:
.    a 2-page summary of your thesis in English, containing:
.    your full contact details,
.    the name and contact details of your supervisor(s),
.    a copy of your CV in English (at most one page, plus a complete 
list of publications directly related to the thesis)
.    an electronic copy of your thesis
.    optionally, an appendix with any other relevant information on the 
thesis

By submitting their work, authors
.    agree that, in case they are granted the award, any subsequently 
published version of the thesis should carry the citation "Winner of the 
Best Thesis Award 2013 of the European Association for Machine 
Translation" and
.    acknowledge the right of the EAMT to publicize the granting of the 
award.

*Closing Date*

The closing date for submissions is December 31, 2013, 23:59 Central 
European Time. No extensions will be granted.

On behalf of Mikel L. Forcada, EAMT Secretary


[1] Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia.
[2] Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, 
Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.
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