In memoriam: Karen Spärck Jones

K. Spärck Jones, Synonymy and Semantic Classification (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1986).

J.I. Tait (ed.), Charting a New Course: Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. Essays in Honour of Karen Spärck Jones (Springer, Dordrecht, 2005).

K. Spärck Jones , Automatic Keyword Classification for Information Retrieval ( Butterworths, London, 1971).

K. Spärck Jones and R.G. Bates , Research on Automatic Indexing 1974—1976 . British Library Research and Development Report 5465 (1977).

K. Spärck Jones and C.A. Webster , Research on Relevance Weighting 1976—1979 . British Library Research and Development Report 5553 (1980).

K. Spärck Jones and C.J. van Rijsbergen, Information retrieval test collections , Journal of Documentation 32(1) (1976) 59—75.

K. Spärck Jones (ed.), Information Retrieval Experiment (Butterworths, London, 1981).

K. Spärck Jones , A statistical interpretation of term specificity and its application in retrieval, Journal of Documentation , 28(1) ( 1972) 11—21.

S.E. Robertson and K. Spärck Jones , Relevance weighting of search terms, Journal of the American Society for Information Science 27(3) (1976) 129—46.

K. Spärck Jones , S. Walker and S.E. Robertson , A probabilistic model of retrieval: development and comparative experiments, parts 1 and 2, Information Processing and Management 36(6) (2000) 779—840.

K. Spärck Jones , Reflections on TREC, Information Processing and Management 31(3) (1995) 291—314.

K. Spärck Jones , G.J.F. Jones , J.T. Foote and S.J. Young , Experiments in spoken document retrieval , Information Processing and Management 32(4) (1996) 399—417.

A. Tuerk , S.E. Johnson , P. Jourlin , K. Spärck Jones and P.C. Woodland, The Cambridge University multimedia document retrieval demo system, International Journal of Speech Technology 4(3/4) (2001) 241—250.

K. Spärck Jones and P. Willett (eds), Readings in Information Retrieval (Morgan Kaufman, San Francisco, 1997).

J. Allan and W.B. Croft (eds), Challenges in Information Retrieval and Language Modeling. Report of a Workshop held at the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September 2002. Available at: www.acm.org/sigs/sigir/forum/S2003/ir-challenges2.pdf (accessed 11 July 2007).

A. Cawsey , J. Galliers , S. Reece and K. Spärck Jones , Automating the librarian: belief revision as a base for system action and communication with the user , Computer Journal 35(3) (1992) 221—32.

A. Copestake and K. Spärck Jones , Natural language interfaces to databases , Knowledge Engineering Review 5(4) (1990) 225—49.

K. Spärck Jones and B. Endres-Niggemeyer , Introduction: automatic summarising , Information Processing and Management 31(5) (1995) 625—30.

K. Spärck Jones and J.I. Tait , Automatic search term variant generation , Journal of Documentation 40(1) (1984) 50—66.

B. Grosz , K. Spärck Jones and B. Webber , Readings in Natural Language Processing (Morgan Kaufman , Los Altos, CA, 1986).

K. Spärck Jones and M. Kay , Linguistics and Information Science ( Academic Press, New York, 1973).

K. Spärck Jones and Y. Wilks (eds), Automatic Natural Language Parsing (Ellis Horwood, Chichester, 1983)

K. Spärck Jones , What's the value of TREC — is there a gap to jump or a chasm to bridge? SIGIR Forum 40(1) (2006) 10—20.

K. Spärck Jones, Automatic summarising: the state of the art, Information Processing and Management (forthcoming).