William Wang receives Karen Spärck Jones Award
Professor Wang will receive the prestigious award in the field of natural language processing and deliver a lecture in Dublin in April 2023.
“. . . the Karen Spärck Jones Award is named for a computer scientist who — in addition to being a woman in computer science, a rarity at the time — merged linguistics with statistics, developing the principles that underlie today’s web searches, predating Google by two decades. . . . ‘Karen Spärck Jones invented an algorithm called TF-IDF,’ Wang said. . . . TF-IDF continues to be a mainstay of Wang’s current work, in which he and his students are developing an open-domain answering system — an engine that can give long responses to questions using natural language, deriving information from a large corpus. Using newer machine learning training techniques and the TF-IDF algorithm, his aim is to add specificity to relevance.”
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