Karen Spärck Jones
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Karen Ida Boalth Spärck Jones was a self-taught programmer and a pioneering British computer scientist responsible for the concept of inverse document frequency , a technology that underlies most modern search engines. She was an advocate for women in the field of computer science. She even came up with a slogan: “Computing is too important to be left to men.” In 2019, The New York Times published her belated obituary in its series Overlooked, calling her "a pioneer of computer science for work combining statistics and linguistics, and an advocate for women in the field." From 2008, to recognize her achievements in the fields of information retrieval and natural language processing , the Karen Spärck Jones Award is awarded to a new recipient with outstanding research in one or both of her fields.
Karen Spärck Jones's Published Works
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Published Works
- Relevance weighting of search terms (1976) (2440)
- A probabilistic model of information retrieval: development and comparative experiments - Part 2 (2000) (752)
- A probabilistic model of information retrieval: development and comparative experiments - Part 1 (2000) (749)
- Readings in information retrieval (1997) (682)
- Evaluating Natural Language Processing Systems: An Analysis and Review (1996) (415)
- Automatic summarising: The state of the art (2007) (398)
- Automatic keyword classification for information retrieval (1971) (394)
- Report on the need for and provision of an 'ideal' information retrieval test collection (1975) (346)
- Automatic summarising: factors and directions (1998) (346)
- Quality of Life in Children With Heart Disease as Perceived by Children and Parents (2008) (287)
- Readings in natural language processing (1986) (257)
- Information Retrieval Experiment (1971) (250)
- Index term weighting (1973) (201)
- Synonymy and semantic classification (1986) (198)
- Natural language interfaces to databases (1990) (176)
- Key concepts (1997) (172)
- Natural language processing for information retrieval (1996) (162)
- Retrieving spoken documents by combining multiple index sources (1996) (157)
- Automatic content-based retrieval of broadcast news (1995) (156)
- Automatic Search Term variant Generation (1984) (144)
- Okapi at TREC{7: automatic ad hoc, ltering, VLC and interactive track (1999) (131)
- What is the Role of NLP in Text Retrieval (1999) (128)
- Patterns in the Mind: Language and Human Nature (1996) (124)
- Experiments in relevance weighting of search terms (1979) (116)
- Spoken Document Retrieval for TREC-8 at Cambridge University (1998) (110)
- IDF term weighting and IR research lessons (2004) (110)
- What Might be in a Summary? (1993) (106)
- Okapi at TREC-6 Automatic ad hoc, VLC, routing, filtering and QSDR (1997) (102)
- Open-vocabulary speech indexing for voice and video mail retrieval (1997) (96)
- Search Term Relevance Weighting given Little Relevance Information (1997) (92)
- Natural Language Processing: A Historical Review (1994) (92)
- Reflections on TREC (1995) (89)
- Social–Cognitive Processes in Preschool Boys With and Without Oppositional Defiant Disorder (2001) (88)
- TREC-6 1997 Spoken Document Retrieval Track Overview and Results (1999) (84)
- The Cambridge University spoken document retrieval system (1999) (84)
- Using Computer Guided Practice to Increase Decoding Fluency in Learning Disabled Children: A Study Using the Hint and Hunt I Program (1987) (84)
- Generic summaries for indexing in information retrieval (2001) (84)
- Effects of out of vocabulary words in spoken document retrieval (poster session) (2000) (81)
- The use of automatically-obtained keyword classifications for information retrieval (1969) (74)
- Further reflections on TREC (2000) (66)
- Experiments in Spoken Document Retrieval (1996) (64)
- Ambiguous requests: implications for retrieval tests, systems and theories (2007) (61)
- Linguistics and information science (1973) (59)
- Video mail retrieval: the effect of word spotting accuracy on precision (1995) (59)
- Acoustic indexing for multimedia retrieval and browsing (1997) (56)
- Information retrieval and artificial intelligence (1999) (54)
- Are Infants with Orofacial Clefts at Risk for Insecure Mother-Child Attachments? (2000) (53)
- Effect of finasteride and/or terazosin on serum PSA: Results of VA cooperative study #359 (1999) (52)
- Some thoughts on classification for retrieval (1970) (49)
- MOCVD growth of non-epitaxial and epitaxial ZnS thin films (1993) (49)
- Compound noun interpretation problems (1986) (47)
- Embryonic intraventricular exposure to autism-specific maternal autoantibodies produces alterations in autistic-like stereotypical behaviors in offspring mice (2014) (46)
- Notes and references on early automatic classification work (1991) (43)
- Realism About User Modeling (1989) (42)
- Current approaches to classification and clump-finding at the Cambridge Language Research Unit (1967) (39)
- What's new about the Semantic Web?: some questions (2004) (39)
- Automatic language and information processing: rethinking evaluation (2001) (38)
- Talker-independent keyword spotting for information retrieval (1995) (37)
- Discourse modelling for automatic summarising (1993) (37)
- A look back and a look forward (1988) (35)
- Unconstrained keyword spotting using phone lattices with application to spoken document retrieval (1997) (34)
- Artificial Intelligence Techniques (1997) (34)
- Towards Better NLP System Evaluation (1994) (34)
- The role of artificial intelligence in information retrieval (1991) (30)
- Automatic term classifications and retrieval (1968) (29)
- What's the value of TREC: is there a gap to jump or a chasm to bridge? (2006) (28)
- Privacy: what's different now? (2003) (28)
- The TREC-6 Spoken Document Retrieval Track (2005) (27)
- User models and expert systems (1984) (27)
- Automatic summarising: a review and discussion of the state of the art (2007) (27)
- Language Modeling and Relevance (2003) (27)
- Modelling information retrieval agents with belief revision (1994) (25)
- NLP Track at TREC-5 (1996) (25)
- Tailoring output to the user: What does user modelling in generation mean? (1991) (25)
- Collection properties influencing automatic term classification performance (1973) (25)
- Spoken document representations for probabilistic retrieval (2000) (22)
- Computational Linguistics: What About the Linguistics? (2007) (22)
- How To Drive A Database Front Did Using General Semantic Information (1983) (21)
- Statistical bases of relevance assessment for the ideal information retrieval test collection (1979) (21)
- Document Retrieval: Shallow Data, Deep Theories; Historical Reflections, Potential Directions (2003) (21)
- Metal-mediated reduction of alkanenitriles to imido ligands. Formation of the imido complexes Re(NCH2R)X3(dppbe) (R = Me, Et, iso-Pr; X = Cl, Br) from the reactions of the octahalodirhenate(III) anions with 1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)benzene in nitrile solvents (RCN) (1990) (21)
- Audio Indexing and Retrieval of Complete Broadcoast News Shows (2000) (20)
- Automatic Summarizing (1995) (20)
- Experiments in semantic classification (1965) (20)
- Does indexing exhaustivity matter? (1973) (19)
- Search term relevance weighting- some recent results (1979) (18)
- A Natural Language Front End to Databases with Evaluative Feedback (1984) (18)
- Robust talker-independent audio document retrieval (1996) (18)
- The Cranfield tests (2008) (17)
- Overall introduction (1997) (17)
- PRECLINICAL STUDY: FULL ARTICLE: Tolerance to 3,4‐methylenedioxymethamphetamine is associated with impaired serotonin release (2010) (17)
- Shifting Meaning Representations (1983) (16)
- Automatic Indexing; Progress in Documentation. (1974) (16)
- Automating the Librarian: Belief Revision as a Base for System Action and Communication with the User (1992) (15)
- Automating the librarian: a fundamental approach using belief revision (1992) (15)
- The Cambridge University Multimedia Document Retrieval Demo System (2000) (15)
- Revisiting classification for retrieval (2005) (14)
- Fashionable trends and feasible strategies in information management (1988) (14)
- Computer Systems Theory, Technology, and Applications: A Tribute to Roger Needham (Monographs in Computer Science) (2004) (13)
- Some thesauric history (1972) (13)
- Is question answering a rational task (2003) (13)
- Role of nucleation sites on the formation of nanoporous Ge (2012) (13)
- The video mail retrieval project: experiences in retrieving spoken documents (1997) (13)
- Retrieval system tests 1958-1978 (2008) (13)
- Belief revision and dialogue management in information retrieval (1994) (13)
- Some Points in a Time (2005) (13)
- A PERFORMANCE YARDSTICK FOR TEST COLLECTIONS (1975) (12)
- Gas-cluster ion-beam smoothing of chemo-mechanical-polish processed GaSb(100) substrates (2003) (12)
- Information Retrieval from Unsegmented Broadcast News Audio (2001) (11)
- Architecture problems in the construction of expert systems for document retrieval (1988) (11)
- Assumptions and issues in text-based retrieval (1992) (11)
- Automatic term classification and information retrieval (1968) (10)
- Shallow processing and automatic summarising: a first study (1991) (10)
- User models, discourse models, and some others (1988) (9)
- Linguistically Motivated Descriptive Term Selection (1984) (9)
- What sort of a thing is an AI experiment (1990) (9)
- A Comparison of Architectures for Autonomous Multi-Agent Communication (1992) (8)
- Inference in Natural Language Front Ends (1986) (8)
- Ambiguous requests: implications for retrieval tests (2007) (8)
- Quantitative correlation of interfacial contamination and antiphase domain boundary density in GaAs on Si(100) (2015) (8)
- Inference in a natural language front end for databases (1989) (7)
- The effects of processing conditions on the density and microstructure of hot-pressed silicon powder (1996) (7)
- Improving retrieval on imperfect speech transcriptions (poster abstract) (1999) (7)
- Natural language processing: she needs something old and something new (maybe something borrowed and something blue, too) (1995) (6)
- Heat Flow on the Incoming Plate Offshore Nicoya, Costa Rica margin: Implications for Hydrothermal Circulation and the Thermal State of the Subducting Plate (2001) (6)
- R.H. Richens : Translation in the NUDE (2006) (6)
- Linguistic and Information Science (1974) (6)
- Microstructural development of directionally solidified Hg1−xZnxSe alloys (1999) (6)
- Video Mail Retrieval Using Voice: An Overview of the Stage 2 System (1995) (6)
- Information retrieval and digital libraries: lessons of research (2006) (6)
- LINGUISTICS AND INFORMATION SCIENCE: A POSTSCRIPT (1976) (5)
- They say it's a new sort of engine: but the SUMP's still there (1987) (5)
- Natural language and databases, again (1984) (5)
- The Cambridge Multimedia Document Retrieval Project: summary of experiments (2001) (5)
- Revising Beliefs and Intentions: A Unified Framework for Agent Interaction (2007) (5)
- Natural language access to databases: some questions and a specific approach (1982) (5)
- Collective Intelligence: It's All in the Numbers (2006) (4)
- Meta-reflections on TREC (2006) (4)
- Retrieving information or answering questions ? (2006) (4)
- Generic summaries for indexing in information retrieval – Detailed test results (2001) (4)
- A General Semantic Analyser for Data Base Access (1981) (4)
- The Cambridge University Multimedia Document Retrieval demo system (demonstration session) (2000) (4)
- How much has information technology contributed to linguistics? (1997) (4)
- Learning Disabled or Emotionally Disturbed (1983) (4)
- Wearing proper combinations (2005) (4)
- Proposals for R&D in Intelligent Knowledge Based Systems (IKBS) (1984) (4)
- Amorphization and Solid-Phase Epitaxial Growth of C-Cluster Ion-Implanted Si (2009) (4)
- Natural language processing (1993) (3)
- Security Engineering: a Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems Security Printing and Seals (3)
- What exactly should we look to AI, and NLP especially, for? (1990) (3)
- Programmes in Advanced Information Technology (1983) (3)
- PANEL: Natural Language And Databases, Again (1984) (3)
- A framework for inference in natural language front ends to databases (1985) (3)
- Information Retrieval and Artificial Intelligence (1999) (3)
- Semantic Primitives: The Tip of the Iceberg (2007) (3)
- AUTOMATIC THESAURUS CONSTRUCTION AND The RELATION OF A THESAURUS TO INDEXING TERMS (1970) (3)
- 2002 ASIST Award of Merit: Karen Sparck Jones (2005) (2)
- Framing Marginalised Art (2010) (2)
- Statistics and Retrieval: Past and Future (2007) (2)
- Steps towards Natural Language to Data Language Translation Using General Semantic Information (1982) (2)
- Comments on Grand Challenge Document ( GCD ) : ‘ Memories for Life ’ : managing information over a human lifetime (2005) (2)
- Computer security – a layperson’s guide, from the bottom up (2002) (2)
- The American West (2009) (2)
- NOTES ON SEMANTIC DISCOURSE STRUCTURE (1967) (2)
- Fundamental material analysis and SIMOX improvement as a function of independent implant parameter control (1996) (2)
- "Understanding Natural Language, " by T. Winograd (Book Review) (1974) (1)
- Reeections on Trec (1995) (1)
- Retrieval System Models: What’s New? (2004) (1)
- Occurrence of pesticide non extractable residues in physical and chemical fractions from two natural soils. (2009) (1)
- A Look Back and a Look Forward (1988) (1)
- Richens : Translation in the NUDE (2006) (1)
- Two tutorial papers: Information retrieval Thesaurus (1991) (1)
- What's in a User? (1990) (1)
- Temperature and flow modulation doping of manganese in ZnS electroluminescent films by low pressure metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (1994) (1)
- Computing is too important to be left to men (2007) (1)
- Natural language and the information layer (2007) (1)
- Modern on-line systems: challenges to research (1979) (1)
- Learning Disabled or Emotionally Disturbed (1983) (1)
- The needs of the pseudo‐pro (1973) (1)
- Performance of text retrieval systems. (1995) (1)
- Three papers on parsing (1982) (1)
- Letters to the Editor (1973) (0)
- Reviews : Harbo, Ole, and Kaiberg, Leif, eds, Theory and application of information research. Proceedings of the Second International Research Forum on Infor mation Science, Copenhagen, 1977, London, Mansell, 1980. 235pp. £16.00. ISBN 0 7201 1513 2 (1981) (0)
- Lunch and learn: WADA Code 2015 – the key changes (2014) (0)
- UK National Programmers in Natural Language Research (1991) (0)
- Gerald Salton, March 8, 1927 - August 28, 1995 (1996) (0)
- Girth to Height Ratio (GHR) is Inversely Correlated to Plasma Glucose to Insulin Ratio (GIR), a Measurement of Insulin Resistance, in Horses (2015) (0)
- Gerald Salton, March 8, 1927–August 28, 1995 (1996) (0)
- Research at U. of Cambridge (1982) (0)
- QSDR experiments for City University (1998) (0)
- Maintaining the flow of talent through apprenticeships (2014) (0)
- The Semantic Web and ontologies : what assumptions , what justifications ? 09 (2006) (0)
- Attorney Advertising in Montana: The Peel Decision and the Growing Need for a State Certification Program (1991) (0)
- The effect of Biblical teaching on marital distress among African American couples (2006) (0)
- Michael Williams.Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis. xxviii + 689 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. $70 (cloth). (2004) (0)
- Document Processing 7.4 Summarization 7.4.1 Analytical Framework (0)
- combining formal theories and statistical data in natural language processing (2000) (0)
- Document retrieval and text retrieval (1993) (0)
- Mechanised semantic classification (1961) (0)
- Letters to the Editor: Re Ballard on the Need for Careful Description (2002) (0)
- Gerard (Gerry) Salton (1996) (0)
- Natural Language Interfaces to Databases Prepared for Knowledge Engineering Review, Special Issue on the Applications of Natural Language Processing Techniques, in Press (2007) (0)
- Review: Book Review (1964) (0)
- Neurologic Clinical Specialists Certified in 2008 (2008) (0)
- Book review (2004) (0)
- Paper Template for INTERSPEECH 2009 - Brighton, United Kingdom (2009) (0)
- Strategies for Evaluation (1995) (0)
- The framework: Scope and concepts (1995) (0)
- Books Received (2010) (0)
- R.H. Richens (2000) (0)
- New demands on information retrieval provide opportunities for natural language processing to work together with proven statistical retrieval approaches. (1996) (0)
- Advertisements (2009) (0)
- Re Lam: Lighthill 17 years on (1990) (0)
- Intersectionality and ameliorative analyses of race and gender (2013) (0)
- NLP evaluation: Work and strategies (1995) (0)
- SELF ORGANIZING MECHANISMS AS MODELS FOR SCIENTIFIC THEORIES (1961) (0)
- Chapter 1 LANGUAGE MODELLING AND RELEVANCE (2002) (0)
- Si(100)上のGaAsにおける界面汚染と逆位相境界密度の定量的相関 (2016) (0)
- National research programs in information science in the United Kingdom (1980) (0)
- Advances in computers, Ed. F. L. Alt and M. Rubinoff, Volume 11 Guest Ed. M. C. Yovits, Academic Press, New York, 1971. No. of pages: 390. Price: $18.50 (£ 8·65) (1974) (0)
- 2007 Athena Lecturer Award introduction (2007) (0)
- Letters to the Editor: On the Need for Studying Ill-Formed Input (2002) (0)
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