NAACL scholarship announcement for Linguistic Institute 2007

[Ivan A. Sag]

All, FYI. -Ivan

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The North American chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (NAACL) is pleased to sponsor tuition scholarships to
attend the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2007 Institute, held
this summer at Stanford (and co-sponsored by the NAACL).  

This year, the Institute theme is "Empirical Foundations for Theories
of Language", and it has in place an exciting menu of 18 presession
courses (July 1-3) and 73 regular session courses (July 5-27) given by
leaders in the field; the offerings include an unprecedented and
fabulous suite of 12 explicitly computational courses (pointers to
more info are given at the bottom of this message).

Scholarship eligibility:  you must be all of the following:
   (1) EITHER a current LSA student member committed to taking least two
          computational courses at the institute
       OR a current NAACL student member 
   (2) a current graduate or undergraduate student in good standing
   (3) committed to registering for 8 credits at the institute

Awards: Linguistic Institute tuition ($1300) plus free student LSA and
NAACL membership (good for 2008 if the awardee is already a member
this year).  Awardees are responsible for other expenses (travel, room
and board, etc.)

To apply: complete the following two-step procedure by February 12, 2007:
    (1) All applicants must register an intent to apply by emailing
        linginst07-naacl-scholarships at aclweb.org .
    (2a) Applicants who ARE currently student LSA members should fill out the
        online application at 
         https://lsadc.org/secure/login/login-direct.cfm?TOPAGE=fellowship/fellowship-application1.cfm
    (2b) Applicants who are NOT currently student LSA members should
        email naacl at lsadc.org , supplying the information requested on
	the sample application viewable at 
        https://lsadc.org/fellowship/fellowship-application-mock.cfm
 
Applications will be evaluated by an LSA committee.  Scholarships will
be awarded on the basis of the applicant's overall academic
performance and promise, as well as the expected role of the Institute
in contributing to the applicant's graduate or undergraduate studies
and future plans. Current LSA student members will be considered for
both the NAACL scholarship and the LSA scholarship, but will not
receive dual awards.

As in previous years, NAACL will also sponsor scholarships to attend the
two-week course at Johns Hopkins during the summer of 2007, which is a
compact introduction to various aspects of speech and natural language
processing.  Details will be provided at the NAACL website when
available (perhaps late February).

For more information:

Linguistic Institute website: linginst07.stanford.edu
   - Courses: linginst07.stanford.edu/courses.html
   - Computational courses: linginst07.stanford.edu/computational.html
NAACL homepage: www.naacl.org
A copy of this message is maintained at http://www.naacl.org/summer-school/2007/lsa2007-awards.htm

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