Karen Spärck Jones
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 17 years ago |
Date of birth | August 26,1935 |
Zodiac sign | Virgo |
Born | Huddersfield |
United Kingdom | |
Date of died | April 4,2007 |
Died | Willingham |
United Kingdom | |
Spouse | Roger Needham |
Books | Evaluating natural language processing systems |
Awards | BCS Lovelace Medal |
ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award | |
Gerard Salton Award | |
ACM-W Athena Lecturer | |
Known for | Term frequency–inverse document frequency |
Education | University of Cambridge |
Girton College, University of Cambridge | |
Nationality | British |
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ID | 737147 |
Karen Spärck Jones Life story
Karen Spärck Jones FBA was a self-taught programmer and a pioneering British computer scientist responsible for the concept of inverse document frequency, a technology that underlies most modern search engines. She was an advocate for women in the field of computer science.