Rosie Jones is a Senior Research Scientist at Yahoo!.
Her research interests include web search, geographic information retrieval, and natural language processing. She received her PhD from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
in 2005 under the supervision of Tom Mitchell, where her doctoral thesis was titled Learning to Extract Entities
from Labeled and Unlabeled Text. In 2005 she co-organized the SIGIR workshop on lexical cohesion and information retrieval,
and in 2003 she co-organized the ICML workshop on The Continuum from Labeled to Unlabeled Data in Machine Learning
and Data Mining. She served on the Senior PC for SIGIR in 2007 and 2008.