Karen Spärck Jones

Computer Scientist and Academic

Karen Spärck Jones - Computer Scientist and Academic
Born

August 26th, 1935
90 years ago

Died

April 4th, 2007
18 years ago — 71 years old

Category

Scientists & Innovators

Country

United Kingdom

Links & References

Contributions to information retrieval and natural language processing characterized the career of this English computer scientist. Spárck Jones developed the concept of term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF), a fundamental technique in text mining and information retrieval. The scholar participated in various academic institutions, fostering research in computational linguistics and contributing to the development of algorithms that enhanced the efficiency of search engines. Throughout her career, she advocated for women in computing, encouraging greater representation and involvement in the field.

Developed the TF-IDF weighting scheme

Contributed to natural language processing

Served as president of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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