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The samples demonstrate how to justify the event’s importance within an academic discipline, describe selectivity such as peer review, and connect travel to professional development and study area. They also show application-ready wording for presenting or attending, including roles in a project, contributions written for non-specialists, and the career impact of conference engagement and networking.","This document contains anonymized applications that have scored very highly in the GPSO Travel Award review process. The exact prompts and questions have changed slightly since these applications were scored, but since much of the content overlaps with the current questions, we hope they are still useful examples of successful applications.\nAt the time, the two prompts that applicants responded to were the following:\n1. Explain the perceived importance of the event within your discipline, and optionally the importance of the event in a broader context. 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This serves two purposes: first, to ensure the quality of the work being presented; second, all accepted papers are published in the proceedings of the conference, meaning that along with the conference presentation, acceptance here also means gaining a highly visible publication. There are few journals that focus specifically on NLP, so the conference proceedings from main conferences such as IJCNLP are treated similarly to journal papers in out field. Thus, being the first author on this paper will serve as a highlight on my CV as I begin to apply for jobs in the coming months.  My attendance at IJCLP 2013 is an extremely important step in my development from graduate student to professional linguist. Conferences such as IJCNLP are without question the best way to stay up to date with current best practices and cutting edge methodologies in the field. 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