Karen Spärck Jones Award

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To commemorate the achievements of Karen Spärck Jones, the Karen Spärck Jones Award was created in 2008 by the British Computer Society (BCS) and its Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG), which is sponsored by Microsoft Research.[1]

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” [2]
  • 2010: Evgeniy Gabrilovich  : “Ad Retrieval Systems in vitro and in vivo: Knowledge-Based Approaches to Computational Advertising” [3]
  • 2011: No award was made
  • 2012: Diane Kelly (computer scientist)  : “Contours and Convergence” [4]
  • 2013:  : “Inferring Searcher Attention and Intention by Mining Behavior Data”[citation needed]
  • 2014:  : “Mining and Modeling Online Health Search” [5]
  • 2015:  : “Opening up the Black Box: Interactive Machine Learning for Understanding Large Document Collections, Characterizing Social Science, and Language-Based Games”,[6]  : “A Task-Based Perspective to Information Retrieval” [7]
  • 2016: Jaime Teevan : “Search, Re-Search.” [8]
  • 2017:  : “The Harsh Reality of Production Information Access Systems” [9]
  • 2018:  : “On Entities and Evaluation” [10]
  • 2019:  : “Task-Based Intelligent Retrieval and Recommendation” [11]
  • 2020:  : “Learning with Limited Labeled Data: The Role of User Interactions” [12]

References[]

  1. ^ "KSJ Award". irsg.bcs.org.
  2. ^ topic_models.pdf (PDF), British Computer Society, retrieved 2020-06-09
  3. ^ gabr_ksj.pdf (PDF), British Computer Society, retrieved 2020-06-09
  4. ^ kelly_keynote_ecir.pdf (PDF), British Computer Society, retrieved 2020-06-09
  5. ^ Keynotes ECIR 2015, ECIR 2015, retrieved 2020-06-09
  6. ^ Keynotes ECIR 2016, ECIR 2016, retrieved 2020-06-09
  7. ^ Keynotes ECIR 2016, ECIR 2016, retrieved 2020-06-09
  8. ^ KSJ Award 39th ECIR, ECIR 2017, retrieved 2020-06-09
  9. ^ ECIR 2018 Keynote Speakers, ECIR 2018, retrieved 2020-06-09
  10. ^ ECIR 2019 Keynote Speaker, ECIR 2019, retrieved 2020-06-09
  11. ^ ECIR 2020 Keynote Speaker, ECIR 2020, retrieved 2020-06-09
  12. ^ ECIR 2021 Keynote Speaker, ECIR 2021, retrieved 2021-03-29
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