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We are pleased to invite applications for the sixth round of the Adam Kilgarriff Prize. Full details for prospective applicants can be found in the Information for Applicants section.

The deadline for applications is 30 September 2026. The winner will be announced on or before 31 December 2026, and the Prize will be presented at the eLex Conference 2027 (date and venue to be confirmed).

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

Michael Rundell
On behalf of the Trustees of the Adam Kilgarriff Prize

Applications for the fifth round of the Adam Kilgarriff Prize are now invited. Full information for potential applicants can be found in the Information for Applicants section.

The deadline for applications is 30th September 2024. A winner will be announced on or before 31st December 2024, and the Prize will be awarded at the eLex Conference 2025 in Slovenia (date and place to be confirmed).

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

Michael Rundell
On behalf of the Trustees of the Adam Kilgarriff Prize

On behalf of the Trustees of the Adam Kilgarriff Prize, I’m delighted to announce that the Prize for 2022 has been awarded to Elena Álvarez Mellado of the UNED School of Computer Science in Madrid. Elena was awarded the Prize for her leading role in the creation and development of an NLP-based system for the automatic retrieval of English loanwords in the Spanish press; for monitoring and analysing their use; for the associated website Observatorio Lázaro; and for a number of related assets, including a Twitter bot (@lazarobot), which gives the project a social dimension.

We congratulate Elena, and look forward to seeing her later this year at the eLex 2023 conference in Brno, Czechia (27–29 June). We also sincerely thank all the other applicants, not least for giving us the opportunity to learn more about the interesting work they are doing.

Michael Rundell
On behalf of the Trustees

Applications for the fourth iteration of the Adam Kilgarriff Prize are now invited. Full information for potential applicants can be found in the Information for Applicants section.

The deadline for applications is 30th September 2022. A winner will be announced on or before 31st December 2022, and the Prize will be awarded at the eLex Conference of 2023 in Brno, Czech Republic (date to be confirmed).

We look forward to receiving your applications!

Michael Rundell
On behalf of the Trustees of the Adam Kilgarriff Prize

Applications for the second iteration of the Adam Kilgarriff Prize are now invited. Full information for potential applicants can be found here.

On behalf of the Trustees of the Adam Kilgarriff Prize, I am delighted to announce that the inaugural Prize has been awarded to Paweŀ Rutkowski of the University of Warsaw. Dr. Rutkowski heads up a team which has developed (and continues to develop) a large annotated corpus of Polish sign language and the fully corpus-based Dictionary of Polish Sign Language.

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.