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BCS/BCS IRSG Karen Spärck Jones Award

An Award to Commemorate Karen Spärck Jones

KSJ 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. 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.

Timeline for 2011

  • 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.

Applications for 2011 (open)

The details about the award can be found in the flyer.

The winner of 2010

On behalf of the KSJ Award Panel, it is with great pleasure to announce this years (for the nominations of 2010) winner:

Evgeniy Gabrilovich
Senior Research Scientist and Manager of the NLP & IR Group of Yahoo! Research, California, U.S.

Evgeniy was extremely delighted to be awarded the BCS / BCS IRSG KSJ Award 2010. He will be giving a keynote speech at ECIR 2011. The abstract of his talk and his bio is available.

Timeline for 2010

  • 3 April, 2010 - Call for nominations.
  • 29 October, 2010 -Deadline for nominations. (Extended to 25 November, 2010)
  • 15 December, 2010 - Notification of the prize winner.
  • 18-21 March, 2011- Winner presents keynote at ECIR.

Applications for 2010 (closed)

The details about the award can be found in the flyer.

The winner of 2009

The first recipient of the KSJ Award winner for 2009 is Mirella Lapata. Mirella is at the University of Edinburgh. She is a Reader (Assoc Prof) within the School of Informatics. Her research has focused on various problems in NLP mostly with an emphasis on statistical methods and text generation applications. She has worked on complex problems like: word sense disambiguation, ambiguity resolution, semantic vector space, story generation, and many others.

The abstract of her talk at ECIR 2009 and her bio is available for download.

Timeline for 2009

  • 8 April, 2009 - Call for nominations.
  • 30 October, 2009 - Deadline for nominations.
  • 15 December, 2009 - Notification of the prize winner.
  • 28-31 March, 2010- Winner presents keynote at ECIR.

Applications for 2009 (closed)

The details about the award can be found in the flyer.