Charting a new course : natural language processing and information retrieval : essays in honour of Karen Spärck Jones

Preface.- A Retrospective View of Synonymy and Semantic Classification.- On the Early History of Evaluation in IR.- The Emergence of Probabilistic Accounts of Information Retrieval.- Lovins Revisited.- The History of IDF and its Influences on IR and Other Fields.- Beyond English Text: Multilingual and Multimedia Information Retrieval.- Summarization.- Question Answering.- Noun Compounds Revisited.- Lexical Decomposition: For and Against.- The Importance of Focused Evaluations: a Case Study of TREC and DUC.- Mice from a Mountain: Reflections on Current Issues in Evaluation of Written Language Technology.- The Evaluation of Retrieval Effectiveness in Chemical Database Searching.- Unhappy Bedfellows: the Relationship of AI and IR.- Index.

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