SUMMIT: Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize-winning Writers, 2005 - 2009

BAAL Book Prize 2005

Edwards, Viv (2004) Multilingualism in the English-speaking World. Blackwell first review One of the main strengths of this book is the originality of its approach to the topic: it adopts a thematic angle, rather than the more obvious „geographical‟ approach, dealing with one country at a time. This makes for a very useful book. Also, the style is excellent and the book is readable and accessib...

Michael Prize 2009

For the best contribution to scientific and clinical research that promotes further development in epi-leptology. The MICHAEL PRIZE is one of the most highly regarded international awards for the best contribution to scientific and clinical research promoting further developments in epileptology; it is awarded biannually and specially designed to attract younger scientists (under 45 years of ag...

The 2009 Novitski Prize

2005 MLA Sheep Prize Winner

Routine husbandry procedures, such as castration and tail docking, are known to induce pain and distress in lambs (Grant, 2004; Kent et al., 2001). This raises important welfare concerns and has attracted debate on the acceptability of such practices. The most common method of castration and tail docking involves the application of a rubber ring to the scrotum or tail, usually without anesthesi...

WIR 2009 Workshop Information Retrieval 2009 Editors

Table extraction is the task of locating tables in a document and extracting their content along with its arrangement within the tables. The notion of tables applied in this work excludes any sort of meta data, e.g. only the entries of the tables are to be extracted. We follow a simple unsupervised approach by selecting the tables according to a score that measures the in-column consistency as ...