Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing

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ALLC Student Prize

Introduction

In order to further its aim of promoting the appropriate, innovative and imaginative application of information and communication technologies in humanistic research, the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing has established an annual prize for registered students in humanistic disciplines.

Purpose

The purpose of the Student Prize competition is to stimulate students who have a significant contribution to make in the field of humanities computing, and to promote the involvement of outstanding young scholars in the application of computing in humanistic research.

Terms

• There will be one competition each year, with no more than one winner.
• The competition prize will be 500 GBP. The winner will also receive a certificate.
• The prize will be awarded on the basis of an academic paper written and submitted by the student. The paper can be on any topic concerning humanistic scholarship which involves the application of information and communication technologies. It must describe or derive from original research, but this may be within an individual humanistic discipline, it may be multi-disciplinary, or it may address the impact of technology on a discipline.
• The winning paper will be published in the Association's journal Literary and Linguistic Computing (hereafter LLC).
• The prize will be announced at the annual international conference jointly promoted by the ALLC and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), and will be presented there if the winner is in attendance. If the winner attends the conference, s/he will receive an additional 500 GBP towards the costs of attendance (conference registration, travel, accommodation and subsistence).
• The name of the winner, an abstract of the prize-winning paper, and the bibliographic reference of the LLC issue in which it is published, will be displayed on the ALLC website.

Entry and eligibility

• The paper must be written to conform with the LLC 'Instructions for Authors', with the exception of word count: the submitted paper should be no less than 4000 words and should not exceed 7500 words.
• The paper must be original, previously unpublished, and not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
• Applicants must be full- or part-time students and must supply evidence of their student status with the application.

Award procedure and timetable

NOTE: the dates in this section apply specifically to the 2005/06 competition. The timetable in future years is likely to follow a broadly similar pattern.

• The deadline for receipt of submissions is 28 February 2006.
• A panel appointed by the Association, and including the Editor of LLC, will arrange for the papers to be reviewed in the normal way by appropriate subject specialists, and will adjudicate the entries on the basis of these reviews and their own reading of the papers. The panel will recommend a winner to the full ALLC committee, unless no submissions are judged to be of sufficient quality, in which case no prize will be awarded in that year's competition.
• The final decision will be made by the full ALLC committee, and applicants will be notified of the outcome by 31 May 2006.
• The prize will be formally announced at the ALLC-ACH 2006 Conference at the Université Paris-Sorbonne, France.

Application procedure

• Application is to be made using the form on the ALLC website.

Publication in LLC

• In addition to the prize-winning paper, other entries may be considered for publication in LLC if the Editor judges them to be suitable and if the author is in agreement.

Notes for competition entrants

• A competition entrant may submit an abstract of their Student Prize paper to the ALLC/ACH international conference. The Call for Papers for the conference is normally announced in July of the year preceding the conference, with a November deadline for submission of proposals.
• A competition entrant may also apply for an ALLC Bursary. Such applications will be considered where entrants are unsuccessful in the Student Prize competition but have their submission accepted for presentation in the ALLC-ACH international conference.

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