Spärck Jones, Karen (1935-2007)

Professor emeritus of Computers and Information at Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Her main research interest have been linguistic problems in information science.  Her most important contribution to information science is probably the idf-measure (see Td-idf).

Literature:

Hjørland, B. & Nissen Pedersen, K. (2005). A substantive theory of classification for information retrieval. Journal of Documentation, 61(5), 582-597. Click for full-text pdf.  Click for summary of arguments

Sparck Jones, K. (1970). Some thoughts on classification for retrieval. Journal of Documentation, 26(2), 89-101. Click for 2005 reprint pdf

Sparck Jones, K. (1971). Automatic keyword classification for retrieval. London: Butterworth.

Sparck Jones, K. (1972). A statistical interpretation of term specificity and its application in retrieval. Journal of Documentation, 28 (1), 11-21.

Sparck Jones, K. (1973). Index terms weighting. Information Storage and Retrieval, 9, 619-633.

Sparck Jones, K. (1992). Thesaurus. Vol. 2, pp. 1605-1613 IN: Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence. Vol. I-II. Ed. by Stuart C. Shapiro. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
 

Sparck Jones, K. (2003). 2002 ASIS&T award of Merit: Karen Sparck Jones. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 29 (3), 12-14. (Also available: http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Feb-03/jones.html).

Sparck Jones, K. (2005). Revisiting classification for retrieval. Journal of Documentation, 61(5), 598-601. [Reply to Hjørland & Nissen Pedersen, 2005] Click for full-text pdf 

Sparck Jones, K. & Kay, M. (1973). Linguistics and Information Science. New York: Academic Press.

Sparck Jones, K. & Van Rijsbergen, C. J. (1976). Information Retrieval Test Collections. 

Journal of Documentation, 32(1), 59-75. 

Wikipedia. The free encyclopedia. (2003-04-21). Karen Spärck Jones. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Sp%C3%A4rck_Jones

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Karen Sparck Jones' homepage: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/ksj/

Generic group: Information science, biography

Birger Hjørland

Last edited: 22-04-2007

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