Adam Kilgarriff Prize: announcement

[apologies for cross-posting]

On behalf of the Trustees of the Adam Kilgarriff Prize<https://kilgarriff.co.uk/prize/>, I'm delighted to announce that the Prize for 2020 has been awarded to Pilar Leoìn
Arauìz of the University of Granada, for her lead role in developing the EcoLexicon<http://ecolexicon.ugr.es/en/index.htm> and associated data and software.

EcoLexicon is a sophisticated, multilingual terminological resource in the domain of environmental science. In addition to the front end, the suite of materials includes a specialized corpus and a set of semantic Sketch Grammars specially developed to extract semantically-related pairs of terms.

All being well, the Prize will be awarded to Prof. Leoìn-Arauìz in person at the forthcoming eLex conference<https://elex.link/elex2021/> in Brno in July – though of course we’ll have to keep this under review.

The high quality of applications for the Prize has been maintained once again, and this year (the third iteration) we received a record number of 16 submissions. As in previous years, the judging process was long and challenging, but in the end there was unanimous agreement that Prof. Leoìn-Arauìz's project should be awarded the Prize.

We were impressed by all the applications, and we would like to thank all the other applicants very warmly, not least for giving us the opportunity to learn more about the interesting work they are doing.

Michael Rundell

Received on Tuesday, 12 January 2021 18:03:01 UTC