Karen Spärck Jones
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| Gender | Female |
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| Death | 18 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.
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