We are pleased to announce the establishment of the Adam Kilgarriff Prize, in
honour of our brilliant and much-loved colleague Adam, who died last year.
The Adam Kilgarriff Prize is intended to recognise outstanding work in the
fields to which Adam contributed so much: corpus linguistics, computational
linguistics, and lexicography. The aim is to encourage younger researchers, so
applicants must be under 40 at the point when nominations close. The prize will
be awarded to an individual researcher for an original publication, a piece of
software, a product or service, or any combination of the above.
The prize will be given biennially, in association with the e-Lex (electronic
lexicography) conference series, so it will initially be given in conjunction
with the e-Lex conference of 2017. There will be a monetary award of EUR 2,500.
Subject to agreement by the e-Lex programme committee, the winner will also
receive funding support to attend the conference in the year of their award,
and be invited to give the Adam Kilgarriff Lecture at the conference.
The prize is administered by a board of trustees, comprising Michael Rundell
(Chair), Miloš Jakubíček, Ilan Kernerman, Iztok Kosem, Pavel Rychlý, and Carole
Tiberius, who will select the winner. The deadline for nominations for the 2017
prize is 30th September 2016, and the winner will be announced by the end of
2016. Details of the nomination procedure (as well as fuller Terms and
Conditions) will be published in March on http://kilgarriff.co.uk/prize/.
Michael Rundell
