Q:Facts:   - thesis year: 1964      - birth date: 26 august 1935    - caption: karen spärck jones in 2002    - death date: 4 april 2007    - field: computer science    - spouse: roger needham    - name: karen spärck jones    - death place: willingham , cambridgeshire    - birth place: huddersfield , yorkshire    - prizes: acl acm-aaai allen newell award , acm sigir salton award , lifetime american society for information science and technology 's award of achievement merit award , bcs lovelace medal ,    - known for: work in particular her probabilistic model of document and text retrieval on information retrieval and natural language processing ,    - thesis title: synonymy and semantic classiﬁcation    - nationality: british    - alma mater: university of cambridge    - residence: united kingdom    - doctoral advisor: richard braithwaite    - work institution: university of cambridge computer laboratory    - image: karen spärck.jpg   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of karen spärck jones .
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karen spärck jones fba -lrb- 26 august 1935 -- 4 april 2007 -rrb- was a british computer scientist .