Karen Spärck Jones

Spärck Jones in 2002 Karen Ida Boalth Spärck Jones (26 August 1935 – 4 April 2007) was a self-taught programmer and a pioneering British computer scientist responsible for the concept of inverse document frequency (IDF), a technology that underlies most modern search engines. She was an advocate for women in computer science, her slogan being, "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 (IR) and natural language processing (NLP), the Karen Spärck Jones Award is awarded to a new recipient with outstanding research in one or both of her fields. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Evaluating natural language processing systems : an analysis and review / by Sparck Jones, Karen, 1935-2007

    Published 1995
    Book