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Charting a New Course: Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval.

Essays in Honour of Karen Spärck Jones

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  • New, original and authoritative collection of fifteen state of the art survey articles
  • Unique and accessible review of early work – some 40 years old – relevant to all forms of modern language and information processing
  • Integrated coverage of hot topics in language and information processing and their evaluation

Part of the book series: The Information Retrieval Series (INRE, volume 16)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
  2. A Retrospective View of Synonymy and Semantic Classification

    • Yorick A. Wilks, John I. Tait
    Pages 1-11
  3. On the Early History of Evaluation in IR

    • Stephen Robertson
    Pages 13-22
  4. Lovins Revisited

    • Martin F. Porter
    Pages 39-68
  5. Karen Spärck Jones and Summarization

    • Mark T. Maybury
    Pages 99-103
  6. Question Answering

    • Arthur W.S. Cater
    Pages 105-128
  7. Noun Compounds Revisited

    • A. Copestake, E.J. Briscoe
    Pages 129-154
  8. Lexical Decomposition: For and Against

    • Stephen G. Pulman
    Pages 155-173
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 283-283

About this book

Karen Spärck 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 Spärck 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 Spärck 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.

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From the reviews of the first edition:

"Karen Spärck Jones is one of the major figures of 20th century and early 21st century computing and information processing. … This book celebrates the life and work of Karen Spärck 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 Spärck Jones has been active." (Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1067, 2005)

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Computing and Technology, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK

    John I. Tait

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