Karen Spärck Jones Award: Nominations

Open to all NLP/IR researchers, who have no more than 10 years experience after their Ph.D. at the closing date for nominations (non-research times, e.g. parental leave or career breaks, will be taken into account to ensure equity; please point at such times in the nominee's CVs).

To have endeavoured to advance our understanding of NLP or IR or both through experimentation.

The following should be provided:

• Name of nominee, position, affiliation, years since completion of the Ph.D.;
• Name of person proposing the nominee, position, and affiliation;
• Short case for the award, not to exceed 2,500 words, highlighting the contributions the individual has made;
• List of the individual's top five publications reflecting the relevant contributions, and role within these;
• Two supporting letters from people who would like to encourage/support the nomination.

Nominations should be emailed to the panel chair Dr Haiming Li <H.Liu@soton.ac.uk>, University of Southampton.

The support letters can be emailed separately by the referees. It is possible for individuals to nominate themselves, in which case they should provide three support letters. Please note that we anticipate that people who provide support letters will do so only for a single candidate.

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, the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), the Award-sponsoring organisation (unless there could be a conflict of interest), as well as seasoned experts in IR and NLP from academia and industry.

The recipient of the award will receive a certificate, a trophy, a cash prize of £1000 plus expenses for the awardee to travel to give the keynote.