Charting a new course: natural language processing and information retrieval : essays in honour of Karen Spärck Jones

✍ Scribed by Karen Sparck Jones, John Tait

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 300
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Karen Sp?rck 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 Sp?rck 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 Sp?rck 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.

✦ Table of Contents

front-matter......Page 1
1-11......Page 23
13-22......Page 34
23-38......Page 44
39-68......Page 60
69-79......Page 90
81-97......Page 101
99-103......Page 118
105-128......Page 123
129-154......Page 147
155-173......Page 173
175-194......Page 192
195-238......Page 212
239-254......Page 256
255-282......Page 272
back-matter......Page 300