Charting a New Course: Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval.: Essays in Honour of Karen Spärck Jones

Karen Spärck Jones is one of the major figures of 20^th century and early 21^st 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 c...