Karen Spärck Jones Award

Chronological recipients and lectures

• 2009: Mirella Lapata : “Image and Natural Language Processing for Multimedia Information Retrieval”
• 2010: Evgeniy Gabrilovich : “Ad Retrieval Systems in vitro and in vivo: Knowledge-Based Approaches to Computational Advertising”
• 2011: No award was made
• 2012: Diane Kelly : “Contours and Convergence”
• 2013: Eugene Agichtein : “Inferring Searcher Attention and Intention by Mining Behavior Data”
• 2014: Ryen White : “Mining and Modeling Online Health Search”
• 2015: Jordan Boyd-Graber : “Opening up the Black Box: Interactive Machine Learning for Understanding Large Document Collections, Characterizing Social Science, and Language-Based Games”, Emine Yilmaz : “A Task-Based Perspective to Information Retrieval”
• 2016: Jaime Teevan : “Search, Re-Search.”
• 2017: Fernando Diaz : “The Harsh Reality of Production Information Access Systems”
• 2018: Krisztian Balog : “On Entities and Evaluation”
• 2019: Chirag Shah : “Task-Based Intelligent Retrieval and Recommendation”