Karen SpArck Jones is one of the major figures of 20th century and
early 21st Century computing and information processing. Her ideas
have had an important influence on the development of Internet
Search Engines. Her contribution has been recognized by awards from
the natural language processing, information retrieval and
artificial intelligence communities, including being asked to
present the prestigious Grace Hopper lecture. She continues to be
an active and influential researcher. Her contribution to the
scientific evaluation of the effectiveness of such computer systems
has been quite outstanding.
This book celebrates the life and work of Karen SpArck Jones in
her seventieth year. It consists of fifteen new and original
chapters written by leading international authorities reviewing the
state of the art and her influence in the areas in which Karen
SpArck Jones has been active. Although she has a publication record
which goes back over forty years, it is clear even the very early
work reviewed in the book can be read with profit by those working
on recent developments in information processing like
bioinformatics and the semantic web.
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