[FOM] E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize Winner

[Raffaella Bernardi]

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******************E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize Winner****************

The selection for the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize for the year 2004
is concluded.  After careful deliberation the committee has reached
the following decision:

- The E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize 2004 has been awarded

			John Hale

from Michigan State University for the thesis

	`Grammar, Uncertainty and Sentence Processing'.

(PhD awarded in the year 2003 at Johns Hopkins University).

The abstract of the thesis can be found at:
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~nza/beth03/


FoLLI would like to congratulate the winner for his excellent thesis,
and to thank all applicants who responded to the call for submissions
and the members of the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize Committee (Anne
Abeille, Natasha Alechina (chair), Nissim Francez, Valentin Goranko,
Larry Moss, Gerald Penn, Manfred Pinkal, Christian Retore, Rob van der
Sandt and Henriette de Swart) for doing a great job.

An award ceremony will take place during ESSLLI 04 in Nancy, on
Thursday 12th of August at 20:30. For further information see the
ESSLLI 04 web page: http://esslli2004.loria.fr/

Finally, our thanks go to the E.W. Beth Foundation which kindly
sponsors the prize.

On behalf of FoLLI,

Raffaella Bernardi



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