24rd EDITION OF THE SEPLN AWARD TO THE BEST DOCTORAL THESIS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Wed, 03/12/2025 - 11:46
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[Submission deadline: May 4th, 2025]

 

The Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing announces the 24rd Edition of the SEPLN Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis in Natural Language Processing, which will be governed by the following bases:

  1. The purpose of this award is the promotion and dissemination of research in the field of natural language processing. 

  2. The thesis will be awarded with a compact laptop (tablet) and 300€ grant to help cover the cost of attending the conference. The award will be presented at the 41th International Congress of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2025), after a brief presentation of the award-winning work by the author. 

  3. In order to compete, the author of the doctoral thesis must be a member of the SEPLN at the time of submitting the work. No contestant may participate as an author in more than one work. 

  4. Doctoral theses read during the year 2024, written in a language of the Spanish State or in English, may be submitted to competition.

  5. In addition to the complete thesis, it is essential to send:

    1. a 4-page summary of the thesis, clearly describing the topic and the relevance of the research, the objectives, methods, results achieved and contributions.

    2. a brief description of the scientific career of the author of the thesis, detailing the participation in scientific activities such as organization of competitive tasks, congresses, generation of open access resources such as sets of data, language models, etc., and participation in projects, contracts, and/or patents. 

  6. The quality of the presentation, the technical and methodological correctness, the relevance, originality, the generation, evaluation and publication of resources, as well as the research trajectory during the pre-doctoral period will be the criteria used for the award of the prize by the jury.

  7. The works will be submitted through the website of the Society's magazine (http://journal.sepln.org) in PDF format before May 4th 2025.

  8. The final decision will be communicated during the 41th International Congress of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2025).

 

Submission instructions (here)