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I think it's more accurate to say that the word weighting technique she created isn't directly related to search engines. Certainly weighting The importance of

I think it's more accurate to say that the word weighting technique she created isn't directly related to search engines. Certainly weighting The importance of an occurrence of a words is important in many applications. Natural language processing, document categorization, and more. Web search among them. The article, though, seems trying pretty hard to portray it as laying the foundations for applications like Google search which is an awkward connection to make. If nothing else consider the time frame: this word indexing technique was published in 1972, while the first mainstream search engines came about two decades later.

jmalicki 8y ago
She won the ACL lifetime achievement in 2004, a fellow of the British Academy, etc., it's not like she was completely overlooked in her field, just not a very public figure. Everyone I know in NLP recognizes the importance of her work. Pretty mainstream search engines like LexisNexis and Bloomberg were around for quite awhile before Google (and her work was even more relevant to pre-web search engines where there were not as many other signals other than the text).