Karen Spärck Jones
British computer scientist (1935–2007) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Karen Ida Boalth Spärck Jones FBA (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.[2][3][4][5][6] She was an advocate for women in computer science, her slogan being, "Computing is too important to be left to men.[7]" In 2019, The New York Times published her belated obituary in its series Overlooked,[8][9] calling her "a pioneer of computer science for work combining statistics and linguistics, and an advocate for women in the field."[9] From 2008, to recognize her achievements in the fields of information retrieval[10][11] (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.[12][13][14][15]
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Born | Karen Ida Boalth Spärck Jones (1935-08-26)26 August 1935 Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England |
Died | 4 April 2007(2007-04-04) (aged 71)[1] Willingham, Cambridgeshire, England |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Known for | Term frequency–inverse document frequency |
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Institutions | University of Cambridge |
Thesis | Synonymy and Semantic Classification (1964) |
Doctoral advisor | Richard Braithwaite[1] |
Website | cl |