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Karen Spärck Jones
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- affiliation: University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory
- award (2007): ACM Athena Lecturer
- award (2006): ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award
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2010 – 2019
- 2017
- [j54]Karen Sparck Jones:
A Look Back and a Look Forward. SIGIR Forum 51(2): 62-78 (2017)
2000 – 2009
- 2007
- [j53]Karen Spärck Jones:
Computational Linguistics: What About the Linguistics? Comput. Linguistics 33(3): 437-441 (2007) - [j52]Karen Spärck Jones:
Automatic summarising: The state of the art. Inf. Process. Manag. 43(6): 1449-1481 (2007) - [j51]Karen Sparck Jones, Stephen E. Robertson, Mark Sanderson:
Ambiguous requests: implications for retrieval tests, systems and theories. SIGIR Forum 41(2): 8-17 (2007) - [c42]Karen Sparck Jones:
Statistics and Retrieval: Past and Future. ICCTA 2007: 396-405 - [c41]Karen Spärck Jones:
2007 Athena Lecturer Award introduction. SIGIR 2007: 2 - [c40]Karen Spärck Jones:
Natural language and the information layer. SIGIR 2007: 3-6 - 2006
- [j50]Karen Spärck Jones:
Collective Intelligence: It's All in the Numbers. IEEE Intell. Syst. 21(3): 64-65 (2006) - [j49]Karen Sparck Jones:
What's the value of TREC: is there a gap to jump or a chasm to bridge? SIGIR Forum 40(1): 10-20 (2006) - [c39]Karen Spärck Jones:
Information retrieval and digital libraries: lessons of research. IWRIDL 2006: 1 - 2005
- [j48]Karen Spärck Jones:
Some Points in a Time. Comput. Linguistics 31(1): 1-14 (2005) - [j47]Karen Spärck Jones:
Some thoughts on classification for retrieval. J. Documentation 61(5): 571-581 (2005) - [j46]Karen Spärck Jones:
Revisiting classification for retrieval. J. Documentation 61(5): 598-601 (2005) - 2004
- [j45]Karen Spärck Jones:
A statistical interpretation of term specificity and its application in retrieval. J. Documentation 60(5): 493-502 (2004) - [j44]Karen Spärck Jones:
IDF term weighting and IR research lessons. J. Documentation 60(5): 521-523 (2004) - [j43]Karen Sparck Jones:
What's new about the Semantic Web?: some questions. SIGIR Forum 38(2): 18-23 (2004) - 2003
- [c38]Karen Sparck Jones:
Document Retrieval: Shallow Data, Deep Theories; Historical Reflections, Potential Directions. ECIR 2003: 1-11 - 2001
- [j42]Andreas Tuerk, Sue E. Johnson, Pierre Jourlin, Karen Spärck Jones, Philip C. Woodland:
The Cambridge University Multimedia Document Retrieval Demo System. Int. J. Speech Technol. 4(3-4): 241-250 (2001) - [j41]Sue E. Johnson, Pierre Jourlin, Karen Spärck Jones, Philip C. Woodland:
Information Retrieval from Unsegmented Broadcast News Audio. Int. J. Speech Technol. 4(3-4): 251-268 (2001) - [j40]Karen Sparck Jones:
Automatic language and information processing: rethinking evaluation. Nat. Lang. Eng. 7(1): 29-46 (2001) - [c37]Tetsuya Sakai, Karen Sparck Jones:
Generic Summaries for Indexing in Information Retrieval. SIGIR 2001: 190-198 - 2000
- [j39]Karen Sparck Jones:
Further reflections on TREC. Inf. Process. Manag. 36(1): 37-85 (2000) - [j38]Karen Sparck Jones, Steve Walker, Stephen E. Robertson:
A probabilistic model of information retrieval: development and comparative experiments - Part 1. Inf. Process. Manag. 36(6): 779-808 (2000) - [j37]Karen Sparck Jones, Steve Walker, Stephen E. Robertson:
A probabilistic model of information retrieval: development and comparative experiments - Part 2. Inf. Process. Manag. 36(6): 809-840 (2000) - [j36]Pierre Jourlin, Sue E. Johnson, Karen Spärck Jones, Philip C. Woodland:
Spoken document representations for probabilistic retrieval. Speech Commun. 32(1-2): 21-36 (2000) - [c36]Sue E. Johnson, Pierre Jourlin, Karen Sparck Jones, Philip C. Woodland:
Audio Indexing and Retrieval of Complete Broadcoast News Shows. RIAO 2000: 1163-1177 - [c35]Philip C. Woodland, Sue E. Johnson, Pierre Jourlin, Karen Sparck Jones:
Effects of out of vocabulary words in spoken document retrieval. SIGIR 2000: 372-374 - [c34]Andreas Tuerk, Sue E. Johnson, Pierre Jourlin, Karen Sparck Jones, Philip C. Woodland:
The Cambridge University multimedia document retrieval demo system. SIGIR 2000: 394 - [c33]Sue E. Johnson, Pierre Jourlin, Karen Sparck Jones, Philip C. Woodland:
Spoken Document Retrieval for TREC-9 at Cambridge University. TREC 2000
1990 – 1999
- 1999
- [j35]Karen Sparck Jones:
Information Retrieval and Artificial Intelligence. Artif. Intell. 114(1-2): 257-281 (1999) - [c32]Sue E. Johnson, Pierre Jourlin, Gareth L. Moore, Karen Spärck Jones, Philip C. Woodland:
The Cambridge University spoken document retrieval system. ICASSP 1999: 49-52 - [c31]Pierre Jourlin, Sue E. Johnson, Karen Sparck Jones, Philip C. Woodland:
Improving Retrieval on Imperfect Speech Transcriptions (poster abstract). SIGIR 1999: 283-284 - [c30]Sue E. Johnson, Philip C. Woodland, Karen Sparck Jones, Pierre Jourlin:
Spoken Document Retrieval for TREC-8 at Cambridge University. TREC 1999 - 1998
- [c29]Sue E. Johnson, Pierre Jourlin, Gareth L. Moore, Karen Sparck Jones, Philip C. Woodland:
Spoken Document Retrieval For TREC-7 At Cambridge University. TREC 1998: 138-147 - [i3]Karen Sparck Jones:
Automatic summarising: factors and directions. CoRR cmp-lg/9805011 (1998) - 1997
- [j34]J. T. Foote, Steve J. Young, Gareth J. F. Jones, Karen Sparck Jones:
Unconstrained keyword spotting using phone lattices with application to spoken document retrieval. Comput. Speech Lang. 11(3): 207-224 (1997) - [c28]Steve J. Young, Martin G. Brown, Jonathan Foote, Gareth J. F. Jones, Karen Spärck Jones:
Acoustic indexing for multimedia retrieval and browsing. ICASSP 1997: 199-202 - [c27]John S. Garofolo, Ellen M. Voorhees, Vincent M. Stanford, Karen Sparck Jones:
TREC-6 1997 Spoken Document Retrieval Track Overview and Results. TREC 1997: 83-91 - [c26]Steve Walker, Stephen E. Robertson, Mohand Boughanem, Gareth J. F. Jones, Karen Sparck Jones:
Okapi at TREC-6 Automatic ad hoc, VLC, routing, filtering and QSDR. TREC 1997: 125-136 - [i2]Karen Sparck Jones:
How much has information technology contributed to linguistics? CoRR cmp-lg/9702011 (1997) - 1996
- [j33]David D. Lewis, Karen Sparck Jones:
Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval. Commun. ACM 39(1): 92-101 (1996) - [j32]Karen Sparck Jones:
Advanced software applications in Japan [Book Reviews]. Softw. Eng. J. 11(4) (1996) - [j31]Karen Sparck Jones, Gareth J. F. Jones, J. T. Foote, Steve J. Young:
Experiments in Spoken Document Retrieval. Inf. Process. Manag. 32(4): 399-417 (1996) - [j30]Karen Sparck Jones:
Patterns in the Mind: Language and Human Nature. Inf. Process. Manag. 32(5): 639-640 (1996) - [j29]Carolyn J. Crouch, Michael McGill, Michael Lesk, Karen Sparck Jones, Edward A. Fox, Donna Harman, Donald H. Kraft:
Gerald Salton, March 8, 1927 - August 28, 1995. J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. 47(2): 108-115 (1996) - [j28]Maristella Agosti, Micheline Beaulieu, Cyril W. Cleverdon, Hans-Peter Frei, Norbert Fuhr, David J. Harper, Peter Ingwersen, E. Michael Keen, Rainer Kuhlen, Stephen E. Robertson, Alan F. Smeaton, Karen Sparck Jones, Keith van Rijsbergen, Peter Willett:
Gerard (Gerry) Salton. J. Documentation 52(1): 1-2 (1996) - [c25]Gareth J. F. Jones, J. T. Foote, Karen Spärck Jones, Steve J. Young:
Robust talker-independent audio document retrieval. ICASSP 1996: 311-314 - [c24]Martin G. Brown, J. T. Foote, Gareth J. F. Jones, Karen Sparck Jones, Steve J. Young:
Open-Vocabulary Speech Indexing for Voice and Video Mail Retrieval. ACM Multimedia 1996: 307-316 - [c23]Gareth J. F. Jones, J. T. Foote, Karen Sparck Jones, Steve J. Young:
Retrieving Spoken Documents by Combining Multiple Index Sources. SIGIR 1996: 30-38 - [c22]Tomek Strzalkowski, Karen Sparck Jones:
NLP Track at TREC-5. TREC 1996 - [e1]Karen Sparck Jones, Julia Rose Galliers:
Evaluating Natural Language Processing Systems, An Analysis and Review. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1083, Springer 1996, ISBN 3-540-61309-9 - 1995
- [j27]Karen Sparck Jones:
Reflections on TREC. Inf. Process. Manag. 31(3): 291-314 (1995) - [j26]Karen Sparck Jones, Brigitte Endres-Niggemeyer:
Automatic Summarizing. Inf. Process. Manag. 31(5): 625-630 (1995) - [c21]Gareth J. F. Jones, J. T. Foote, Karen Spärck Jones, Steve J. Young:
Video mail retrieval: the effect of word spotting accuracy on precision. ICASSP 1995: 309-312 - [c20]J. T. Foote, Gareth J. F. Jones, Karen Sparck Jones, Steve J. Young:
Talker-independent keyword spotting for information retrieval. EUROSPEECH 1995: 2145-2148 - [c19]Gareth J. F. Jones, J. T. Foote, Karen Sparck Jones, Steve J. Young:
Video Mail Retrieval Using Voice: An Overview of the Stage 2 System. MIRO 1995 - [c18]Martin G. Brown, J. T. Foote, Gareth J. F. Jones, Karen Sparck Jones, Steve J. Young:
Automatic Content-Based Retrieval of broadcast News. ACM Multimedia 1995: 35-43 - [i1]Karen Sparck Jones:
Natural language processing: she needs something old and something new (maybe something borrowed and something blue, too). CoRR abs/cmp-lg/9512004 (1995) - 1994
- [c17]Karen Sparck Jones:
Towards Better NLP System Evaluation. HLT 1994 - [c16]Brian Logan, Steven Reece, Karen Sparck Jones:
Modelling Information Retrieval Agents with Belief Revision. SIGIR 1994: 91-100 - 1993
- [c15]Karen Sparck Jones:
What Might be in a Summary? Information Retrieval 1993: 9-26 - [c14]Karen Sparck Jones:
Document retrieval and text retrieval. HLT 1993 - 1992
- [j25]Alison Cawsey, Julia Rose Galliers, Steven Reece, Karen Sparck Jones:
Automating the Librarian: Belief Revision as a Base for System Action and Communication with the User. Comput. J. 35(3): 221-232 (1992) - [c13]Alison Cawsey, Julia Rose Galliers, Steven Reece, Karen Sparck Jones:
A Comparison of Architectures for Autonomous Multi-Agent Communication. ECAI 1992: 249-251 - 1991
- [j24]Karen Sparck Jones:
The role of artificial intelligence in information retrieval. J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. 42(8): 558-565 (1991) - [j23]Karen Sparck Jones:
Notes and References on Early Automatic Classification Work. SIGIR Forum 25(1): 10-17 (1991) - 1990
- [j22]Ann A. Copestake, Karen Sparck Jones:
Natural language interfaces to databases. Knowl. Eng. Rev. 5(4): 225-249 (1990) - [j21]Karen Sparck Jones:
Re Lam: Lighthill 17 years on. Knowl. Eng. Rev. 5(4): 290 (1990) - [c12]Karen Sparck Jones:
What's in a User? AAAI 1990: 1140-1141
1980 – 1989
- 1988
- [j20]Karen Sparck Jones:
Fashionable trends and feasible strategies in information management. Inf. Process. Manag. 24(6): 703-711 (1988) - [c11]Karen Sparck Jones:
A Look Back and A Look Forward. SIGIR 1988: 13-29 - 1987
- [c10]Karen Sparck Jones:
They say it's a new sort of engine: but the SUMP's still there. TINLAP 1987: 140-143 - 1986
- [c9]Branimir Boguraev, Ann A. Copestake, Karen Sparck Jones:
Inference in Natural Language Front Ends. DS-2 1986: 41-70 - 1984
- [j19]Karen Sparck Jones, John I. Tait:
Automatic Search Term variant Generation. J. Documentation 40(1): 50-66 (1984) - [c8]Karen Sparck Jones:
PANEL: Natural Language And Databases, Again. COLING 1984: 182-183 - [c7]Karen Sparck Jones, John Tait:
Linguistically Motivated Descriptive Term Selection. COLING 1984: 287-290 - 1983
- [j18]Karen Sparck Jones:
Programmes in Advanced Information Technology. J. Documentation 39(2): 85-87 (1983) - [c6]Branimir Boguraev, Karen Sparck Jones:
How To Drive A Database Front Did Using General Semantic Information. ANLP 1983: 81-88 - [c5]Branimir Boguraev, Karen Sparck Jones:
A Natural Language Front End to Databases with Evaluative Feedback. ICOD-2 Workshop on New Applications of Data Bases 1983: 159-182 - [c4]Karen Sparck Jones:
Shifting Meaning Representations. IJCAI 1983: 621-623 - 1982
- [j17]Karen Sparck Jones, Branimir Boguraev, John I. Tait:
Research at U. of Cambridge. SIGART Newsl. 79: 38-39 (1982) - [c3]Branimir Boguraev, Karen Sparck Jones:
Steps towards Natural Language to Data Language Translation Using General Semantic Information. ECAI 1982: 232-233 - 1981
- [c2]Branimir Boguraev, Karen Sparck Jones:
A General Semantic Analyser for Data Base Access. IJCAI 1981: 443-445 - 1980
- [j16]John Gray, Karen Sparck Jones:
National research programs in information science in the United Kingdom. Inf. Process. Manag. 16(4-5): 227-241 (1980)
1970 – 1979
- 1979
- [j15]Karen Sparck Jones:
Experiments in relevance weighting of search terms. Inf. Process. Manag. 15(3): 133-144 (1979) - [j14]Karen Sparck Jones:
Search Term Relevance Weighting given Little Relevance Information. J. Documentation 35(1): 30-48 (1979) - [j13]Karen Sparck Jones:
Modern On-Line Systems: Challenges To Research. SIGIR Forum 13(3): 15-25 (1979) - 1976
- [j12]Stephen E. Robertson, Karen Spärck Jones:
Relevance weighting of search terms. J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. 27(3): 129-146 (1976) - 1974
- [j11]Karen Sparck Jones:
"Understanding Natural Language, " by T. Winograd (Book Review). Int. J. Man Mach. Stud. 6(2): 279-281 (1974) - 1973
- [j10]Karen Sparck Jones:
Collection properties influencing automatic term classification performance. Inf. Storage Retr. 9(9): 499-513 (1973) - [j9]Karen Sparck Jones:
Index term weighting. Inf. Storage Retr. 9(11): 619-633 (1973) - [j8]Karen Sparck Jones:
Letters to the Editor. J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. 24(2): 166-167 (1973) - [j7]Karen Sparck Jones:
Does indexing exhaustivity matter? J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. 24(5): 313-316 (1973) - 1970
- [j6]Karen Sparck Jones, David M. Jackson:
The use of automatically-obtained keyword classifications for information retrieval. Inf. Storage Retr. 5(4): 175-201 (1970)
1960 – 1969
- 1968
- [j5]Karen Sparck Jones, Roger M. Needham:
Automatic term classifications and retrieval. Inf. Storage Retr. 4(2): 91-100 (1968) - [c1]Karen Sparck Jones:
Automatic term classification and information retrieval. IFIP Congress (2) 1968: 1290-1295 - 1967
- [j4]Karen Sparck Jones, David M. Jackson:
Current approaches to classification and clump-finding at the Cambridge Language Research Unit. Comput. J. 10(1): 29-37 (1967) - 1965
- [j3]Karen Spärck Jones:
Review: Book Review. Comput. J. 8(3): 255 (1965) - [j2]Karen Sparck Jones:
Experiments in semantic classification. Mech. Transl. Comput. Linguistics 8(3-4): 97-112 (1965) - 1964
- [j1]Karen Spärck Jones:
Review: Book Review. Comput. J. 7(3): 172 (1964)
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