{"id":7062,"date":"2021-08-03T17:34:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T16:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=7062"},"modified":"2021-08-03T17:34:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T16:34:53","slug":"karen-sparck-jones-award-2021-second-call-for-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=7062","title":{"rendered":"Karen Sp\u00e4rck Jones Award 2021 &#8211; Second Call\u00a0for\u00a0Nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pioneer of information retrieval, the computer science sub-discipline that also underpins the technology of modern Web search engines, Karen Sp\u00e4rck Jones was a British professor of Computers and Information at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge. Her contributions to the fields of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR), especially with regard to experimentation, have been outstanding, highly influential and lasting, and include the introduction of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tf%E2%80%93idf\">InverseDocument Frequency<\/a>\u00a0for relevance ranking.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Karen and her work, see:<br \/>\n*\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karen_Sp%C3%A4rck_Jones\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karen_Sp%C3%A4rck_Jones<br \/>\n<\/a>*\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U8FecRxSiUM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U8FecRxSiUM<br \/>\n<\/a>*\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5fYeKiebpuo\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5fYeKiebpuo<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We encourage former advisors of talented scientists to provide the judges with a rich and diverse candidate pool to select from.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10 September 2021 \u2014 closing date for\u00a0nominations;<br \/>\n\u2022 17 September 2021 \u2014 deadline for support letters;<br \/>\n\u2022 15 December 2021 \u2014 notification of the prize recipient;<br \/>\n\u2022 10 April-14 April 2022 \u2014 recipient presents keynote at ECIR 2022 in Stavanger, Norway.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Eligibility. Open to all NLP\/IR researchers, who have no more than 10 years experience after their Ph.D. at the closing date for\u00a0nominations\u00a0(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&#8217;s CVs).<\/p>\n<p>Criterion. To have endeavoured to advance our understanding of NLP or IR or both through experimentation.<\/p>\n<p>Nominations. The following should be provided:<br \/>\n\u2022 Name of\u00a0nominee, position, affiliation, years since completion of the Ph.D.;<br \/>\n\u2022 Name of person proposing the\u00a0nominee, position, and affiliation;<br \/>\n\u2022 Short case for the award, not to exceed 2,500 words, highlighting the contributions the individual has made;<br \/>\n\u2022 List of the individual&#8217;s top five publications reflecting the relevant contributions, and role within these; and<br \/>\n\u2022 Two supporting letters from people who would like to encourage\/support the\u00a0nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Nominations\u00a0should be emailed to the panel chair below.\u00a0 The support letters can be emailed separately by the referees.\u00a0 It is possible for individuals to nominate themselves, in which case they should provide three support letters.\u00a0 Please note that we anticipate that people who provide support letters will do so only for a single candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Award Panel. 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.<\/p>\n<p>Prize. The recipient of the award will receive a certificate, a trophy, a cash prize of \u00a31000 plus expenses for the awardee to travel to ECIR 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the Karen Sp\u00e4rck Jones Award will now alternate between ECIR and EACL to promote integration between the IR and NLP communities that Karen Sp\u00e4rck Jones was an active member of.<\/p>\n<p>Timeline for the 2021 Award to be presented at ECIR 2022: TO BE ADDED MW<\/p>\n<p>The Karen Spa\u0308rck Jones Award is sponsored by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/lab\/microsoft-research-cambridge\/\">Microsoft Research Cambridge<\/a>; we would like to thank our generous sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>Current Award Chair: Professor Jochen L. Leidner &lt;leidner AT <a href=\"http:\/\/acm.org\/\">acm.org<\/a>&gt;, Coburg University of Applied Sciences and University of Sheffield.<\/p>\n<p>For a list of previous recipients of the award, cf.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/ksjaward.php\">https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/ksjaward.php<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pioneer of information retrieval, the computer science sub-discipline that also underpins the technology of modern Web search engines, Karen Sp\u00e4rck Jones was a British professor of Computers and Information at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge. Her contributions to the fields of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR), especially with regard to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=7062\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Karen Sp\u00e4rck Jones Award 2021 &#8211; Second Call\u00a0for\u00a0Nominations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193,227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-summer-2021","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}