Karen Spärck Jones was a pioneering figure in computer science, particularly in the field of information retrieval and natural language processing. Her work laid the groundwork for search engines. She devised the concept of inverse document frequency (IDF), a key component of search relevancy ranking algorithms. Despite her significant contributions, her name is not as familiar to many in the technology realm.
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