SEPLN 24rd Edition of the Best Doctoral Award in NLP

SEPLN announces the 24rd Edition of the Best Doctoral Award in NLP, promoting research in the field.

The Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing announces the 24rd Edition of the SEPLN Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis in Natural Language Processing. The award aims to promote and disseminate research in the field of NLP.

The thesis will be awarded with a compact laptop (tablet) and a 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.

To compete, the author of the doctoral thesis must be a member of the SEPLN at the time of submitting the work. Doctoral theses read during the year 2024, written in a language of the Spanish State or in English, may be submitted to competition.

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

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

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