| The LAZEROW LECTURE SERIES
and The Los Angeles Chapter of the American Society for Information
Science and Technology Present:
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Karen Spärck Jones,
University of Cambridge, UK
Lecture:
“Information Retrieval Research: Old Ideas,
Current Challenges and New Possibilities”
When:
Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 3-5pm
Where:
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Ackerman Union, 2nd Floor Lounge
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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.
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.
For additional details on the IS Colloquium Series, visit the
UCLA Department of Information
Studies Website.
Parking $7. For parking reservation in Lot 3, please e-mail Lydia
at doplemore@gseis.ucla.edu.
Light refreshments will be served.
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