[Asis-l] LAZEROW LECTURE SERIES: Karen Spärck Jones

[Hogarth, Margaret]

The LAZEROW LECTURE SERIES and The Los Angeles Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Present: 

Karen Spärck Jones, University of Cambridge, UK 

"Information Retrieval Research: Old Ideas, Current Challenges and New Possibilities"

When & Where:
Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 3-5pm - Ackerman Union, 2nd Floor Lounge, UCLA

Topic:
Automatic document indexing and searching were early research areas in automatic computing. Statistically-based language and information processing was a novel idea that took time to establish, was ignored in library practice, was seized on for the Web, and is now spreading across tasks and applications, for example in summarizing and question answering. What do these new language and information processing developments offer, and what do they imply for a digital library?

Karen Spärck Jones is emeritus Professor of Computers and Information at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. She has worked in automatic language and information processing research since the late fifties, and has many publications including several books, most recently `Evaluating Natural Language Processing Systems' with Julia Galliers, and `Readings in Information Retrieval', edited with Peter Willett. She is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, and a European Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) Fellow. She was President of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 1994, and has received three awards for information retrieval research, most recently the American Society for Information Science and Technology's 2002 Award of Merit. She is a member of the NIST/DARPA Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) Programme Committee and is also involved with the DARPA TIDES Programme. Her most recent research has been on spoken document retrieval and on summarizing.

The Lazerow lecture series is sponsored by Thomson ISI; Prof. Spärck Jones lecture is co-sponsored by LACASIS, www.lacasis.org

Samuel Lazerow, in whose honor and memory this lecture series has been established, had a record of long and distinguished service in the library profession. An honors graduate of Johns Hopkins University, he received his library education at Columbia University. During World War II he served as the Army's chief library officer in Europe. Mr. Lazerow spent 25 years of service in the federal library community and held administrative posts at each of the three national libraries. From 1947 to 1952 he served as chief of acquisitions at the National Library of Agriculture and followed that with a similar assignment at the National Library of Medicine for thirteen years. In 1965 he joined the Library of Congress where he headed a task force on the automation and sharing of services between national libraries. He served as Vice President for the Institute for Scientific Information after his retirement in 1972 and held the post until his death. This lecture series was initiated by Dr. Eugene Garfield, founder and president of ISI, as a tribute to his friend and colleague.


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