Karen Sparck Jones
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Karen Sparck Jones is Reader in Computers and Information at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. She has worked in automatic language and information processing research since the late fifties, beginning her career at the then Cambridge Language Research Unit. She has many publications including several books: her 1964 thesis, Synonymy and semantic classification was published by Edinburgh University Press in 1986, and she is joint author with J.R. Galliers of Evaluating natural language processing systems, Springer, 1996. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, was President of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 1994, and has received two awards for information retrieval research. Her work in the last decade has been on document retrieval including speech applications, database query, user and agent modelling, summarising, and information and language system evaluation.
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