Please answer the following question: Facts: - thesis year: 1964 - birth date: 26 august 1935 - caption: karen sparck jones in 2002 - death date: 4 april 2007 - field: computer science - spouse: roger needham - name: karen sparck 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 sparck.jpg Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of karen sparck jones .
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karen sparck jones fba -lrb- 26 august 1935 -- 4 april 2007 -rrb- was a british computer scientist .