| 2003 | ECIR | Document Retrieval: Shallow Data, Deep Theories; Historical Reflections, Potential Directions. | Karen Sparck Jones |
| 2001 | SIGIR | Generic Summaries for Indexing in Information Retrieval. | Tetsuya Sakai, Karen Sparck Jones |
| 2000 | SIGIR | The Cambridge University multimedia document retrieval demo system. | Andreas Tuerk, Sue E. Johnson, Pierre Jourlin, Karen Sparck Jones, Philip C. Woodland |
| 2000 | SIGIR | Effects of out of vocabulary words in spoken document retrieval. | Philip C. Woodland, Sue E. Johnson, Pierre Jourlin, Karen Sparck Jones |
| 1999 | SIGIR | Improving Retrieval on Imperfect Speech Transcriptions (poster abstract). | Pierre Jourlin, Sue E. Johnson, Karen Sparck Jones, Philip C. Woodland |
| 1996 | SIGIR | Retrieving Spoken Documents by Combining Multiple Index Sources. | Gareth J. F. Jones, J. T. Foote, Karen Sparck Jones, Steve J. Young |
| 1995 | Interspeech | Talker-independent keyword spotting for information retrieval. | J. T. Foote, Gareth J. F. Jones, Karen Sparck Jones, Steve J. Young |
| 1994 | NAACL | Towards Better NLP System Evaluation. | Karen Sparck Jones |
| 1994 | SIGIR | Modelling Information Retrieval Agents with Belief Revision. | Brian Logan, Steven Reece, Karen Sparck Jones |
| 1993 | NAACL | Document retrieval and text retrieval. | Karen Sparck Jones |
| 1992 | ECAI | A Comparison of Architectures for Autonomous Multi-Agent Communication. | Alison Cawsey, Julia Rose Galliers, Steven Reece, Karen Sparck Jones |
| 1990 | AAAI | What's in a User? | Karen Sparck Jones |
| 1988 | SIGIR | A Look Back and A Look Forward. | Karen Sparck Jones |
| 1986 | DS | Inference in Natural Language Front Ends. | Branimir Boguraev, Ann A. Copestake, Karen Sparck Jones |
| 1984 | COLING | PANEL: Natural Language And Databases, Again. | Karen Sparck Jones |
| 1984 | COLING | Linguistically Motivated Descriptive Term Selection. | Karen Sparck Jones, John Tait |
| 1983 | IJCAI | Shifting Meaning Representations. | Karen Sparck Jones |
| 1982 | ECAI | Steps towards Natural Language to Data Language Translation Using General Semantic Information. | Branimir Boguraev, Karen Sparck Jones |
| 1981 | IJCAI | A General Semantic Analyser for Data Base Access. | Branimir Boguraev, Karen Sparck Jones |