To commemorate the achievements of
Karen Spärck Jones
Karen Sparck Jones is a computer science researcher and innovator who pioneered the search engine algorithm known as inverse document frequency (IDF). While many early information scientists and computer engineers were focused on developing progr ...
, the Karen Spärck Jones Award was created in 2008 by the
British Computer Society
Sir Maurice Wilkes served as the first President of BCS in 1957
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, known as the British Computer Society until 2009, is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in inf ...
(BCS) and its
Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG), which is sponsored by
Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research (MSR) is the research subsidiary of Microsoft. It was created in 1991 by Richard Rashid, Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold with the intent to advance state-of-the-art computing and solve difficult world problems through technolog ...
.
The winner of the award is invited to present a keynote talk at the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) the following year.
Chronological recipients and keynote talks
* 2009:
Mirella Lapata : “Image and Natural Language Processing for Multimedia Information Retrieval”
* 2010:
Evgeniy Gabrilovich : “Ad Retrieval Systems in vitro and in vivo: Knowledge-Based Approaches to Computational Advertising”
* 2011: No award was made
* 2012:
Diane Kelly : “Contours and Convergence”
* 2013:
Eugene Agichtein : “Inferring Searcher Attention and Intention by Mining Behavior Data”
* 2014:
Ryen White : “Mining and Modeling Online Health Search”
* 2015:
Jordan Boyd-Graber : “Opening up the Black Box: Interactive Machine Learning for Understanding Large Document Collections, Characterizing Social Science, and Language-Based Games”,
Emine Yilmaz : “A Task-Based Perspective to Information Retrieval”
* 2016:
Jaime Teevan
Jaime Teevan is an American computer scientist and Microsoft executive known for her work on AI and productivity.
Education and background
Teevan received a B.S. in Computer Science from Yale University. As an undergraduate, she sold her seni ...
: “Search, Re-Search.”
* 2017:
Fernando Diaz (computer scientist) : “The Harsh Reality of Production Information Access Systems”
* 2018:
Krisztian Balog : “On Entities and Evaluation”
* 2019:
Chirag Shah
''Chirag'' (Hindi: चिराग; English: Light) is a 1969 Indian Bollywood film directed by Raj Khosla. The film stars Sunil Dutt and Asha Parekh in lead roles. Apart from other plus points, it has the famous song "Teri Aankhon Ke Siwa" sung ...
: “Task-Based Intelligent Retrieval and Recommendation”
* 2020:
Ahmed H. Awadallah : “Learning with Limited Labeled Data: The Role of User Interactions”
* 2021: Ivan Vulić : “Towards Language Technology for a Truly Multilingual World?”
References
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