2026 Karen Sparck Jones: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	44	7371	7155	441	436	164	17497

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Overview

Karen Sparck Jones is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and specializes in the field of Computer Science. Their research primarily focuses on Artificial Intelligence, with additional contributions to Information Systems, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Literature and Literary Theory.

The scientist's work encompasses a variety of main topics, including:

Natural Language Processing Techniques
Topic Modeling
Speech and dialogue systems
Information Retrieval and Search Behavior
Machine Learning and Algorithms
Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge

Among recent papers authored by Karen Sparck Jones are:

A probabilistic model of information and retrieval: development and status, 2021, CL Technical Reports
Automatic summarising: a review and discussion of the state of the art, 2021, CL Technical Reports
Discourse modelling for automatic summarising, 2021, CL Technical Reports

Co-authors frequently collaborating with Karen Sparck Jones include:

G.J.F. Jones
Jonathan Foote
Sydney Young
S. Young
Branimir Boguraev

The scientist has also contributed to book publications under CL Technical Reports, including:

Compound noun interpretation problems, 2021
User models and expert systems, 2021
Architecture problems in the construction of expert systems for document retrieval, 2021
Three papers on parsing, 2021

Karen Sparck Jones regularly publishes in venues such as CL Technical Reports, with occasional publications in Scientific Repository (Petra Christian University) and Latino Studies.

Best Publications

A statistical interpretation of term specificity and its application in retrieval

Karen Sparck Jones

6412
Citations
A probabilistic model of information retrieval: development and comparative experiments

K. Sparck Jones;S. Walker;S. E. Robertson;S. E. Robertson

1585
Citations
Readings in information retrieval

Karen Sparck Jones;Peter Willett

1187
Citations
Evaluating Natural Language Processing Systems: An Analysis and Review

Karen Sparck Jones;Julia R. Galliers

610
Citations
Key concepts

Karen Sparck Jones;Peter Willett

597
Citations
Automatic summarising: The state of the art

Karen Spärck Jones

531
Citations
Natural language processing for information retrieval

David D. Lewis;Karen Spärck Jones

495
Citations
Information Retrieval Experiment

Karen Sparck Jones

365
Citations
Report on the need for and provision of an 'ideal' information retrieval test collection

Karen Sparck Jones;C. J. Van Rijsbergen

344
Citations
Automatic keyword classification for information retrieval

Karen Sparck Jones

313
Citations
Index term weighting

Karen Sparck Jones

262
Citations
Automatic content-based retrieval of broadcast news

M. G. Brown;J. T. Foote;G. J. F. Jones;K. Sparck Jones

218
Citations
Natural language interfaces to databases

Ann A. Copestake;Karen Sparck Jones

211
Citations
Synonymy and Semantic Classification

Karen Sparck Jones

204
Citations
Retrieving spoken documents by combining multiple index sources

G. J. F. Jones;J. T. Foote;K. Spärck Jones;S. J. Young

177
Citations
IDF term weighting and IR research lessons

Karen Spärck Jones

160
Citations
Natural Language Processing: A Historical Review

Karen Sparck Jones

149
Citations
Automatic summarising: factors and directions

Karen Sparck Jones

148
Citations
Automatic Search Term variant Generation

Unknown

145
Citations
Open-vocabulary speech indexing for voice and video mail retrieval

M. G. Brown;J. T. Foote;G. J. F. Jones;K. Spärck Jones

132
Citations
What is the Role of NLP in Text Retrieval

Karen Sparck Jones

130
Citations
Relevance weighting of search terms

Stephen E. Robertson;Karen Sparck Jones

115
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip C. Woodland University of Cambridge

Stephen Robertson University College London

Peter Willett University of Sheffield

Ann Copestake University of Cambridge

Roger M. Needham Microsoft (United States)

Steve Young University of Cambridge

Ellen M. Voorhees National Institute of Standards and Technology

Peter Ingwersen University of Copenhagen

Norbert Fuhr University of Duisburg-Essen

Stephen Pulman University of Oxford

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