Ross Purves
Orcid: 0000-0002-9878-9243Affiliations:
- University of Zurich, Switzerland
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Ross Purves
authored at least 98 papers
between 1998 and 2024.
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Bibliography
2024
2nd International Workshop on Geographic Information Extraction from Texts (GeoExT 2024).
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2024
Fine-Tuning Transformers for Toponym Resolution: A Contextual Embedding Approach to Candidate Ranking.
Proceedings of The GeoExT 2024: Geographic Information Extraction from Texts Workshop co-located with The 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 2024
Locality and transferability: examining pre-built lexicons to elicit landscape values from natural language.
Proceedings of the 27th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, 2024
2023
Seeing through a new lens: exploring the potential of city walking tour videos for urban analytics.
Int. J. Digit. Earth, December, 2023
Conceptualizing Landscapes Through Language: The Role of Native Language and Expertise in the Representation of Waterbody Related Terms.
Top. Cogn. Sci., July, 2023
Identifying Landscape Relevant Natural Language using Actively Crowdsourced Landscape Descriptions and Sentence-Transformers.
Künstliche Intell., March, 2023
Extracting positive descriptions and exploring landscape value using text analysis in the Cairngorms National Park.
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities, 2023
2022
A text and image analysis workflow using citizen science data to extract relevant social media records: Combining red kite observations from Flickr, eBird and iNaturalist.
Ecol. Informatics, 2022
Towards an Automated Information Extraction Model from Twitter Threads during Disasters.
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, 2022
Effects of traffic perturbations on bike sharing demand - a case study of public transport strikes and protests in Paris.
Proceedings of the 25th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, 2022
2020
Streets of London: Using Flickr and OpenStreetMap to build an interactive image of the city.
Comput. Environ. Urban Syst., 2020
Exploring the Potential of Twitter to Understand Traffic Events and Their Locations in Greater Mumbai, India.
IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst., 2020
How Can Geographic Information in Text Documents be Visualized to Support Information Exploration in the Humanities?
Int. J. Humanit. Arts Comput., 2020
Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci., 2020
Text Meets Space: Geographic Content Extraction, Resolution and Information Retrieval.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2020
2019
StarBorn: Towards making in-situ land cover data generation fun with a location-based game.
Trans. GIS, 2019
Approaching location-based services from a place-based perspective: from data to services?
J. Locat. Based Serv., 2019
A conceptual framework for studying collective reactions to events in location-based social media.
Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci., 2019
Hearing the silence: finding the middle ground in the spatial humanities? Extracting and comparing perceived silence and tranquillity in the English Lake District.
Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci., 2019
2018
Proceedings of the Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Second Edition, 2018
GIR'18 Workshop Report 12th ACM SIGSPATIAL workshop on geographic information retrieval seattle, USA 6<sup><i>th</i></sup> November 2018.
ACM SIGSPATIAL Special, 2018
Description and characterization of place properties using topic modeling on georeferenced tags.
Geo spatial Inf. Sci., 2018
Describing and comparing landscapes using tags, texts, and free lists: an interdisciplinary approach.
Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci., 2018
Found. Trends Inf. Retr., 2018
Towards the Usefulness of User-Generated Content to Understand Traffic Events (Short Paper).
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, 2018
Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, 2018
2017
A quantitative analysis of global gazetteers: Patterns of coverage for common feature types.
Comput. Environ. Urban Syst., 2017
Evaluating Topological Queries in Linked Data Using DBpedia and GeoNames in Switzerland and Scotland.
Trans. GIS, 2017
Geo spatial Inf. Sci., 2017
Terrestrial laser scanning improves digital elevation models and topsoil pH modelling in regions with complex topography and dense vegetation.
Environ. Model. Softw., 2017
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, 2017
Proceedings of Workshops and Posters at the 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, 2017
Proceedings of Workshops and Posters at the 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, 2017
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, 2017
Proceedings of Workshops and Posters at the 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, 2017
2016
Spatial Cogn. Comput., 2016
Assessing geographic relevance for mobile search: A computational model and its validation via crowdsourcing.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2016
Proceedings of the Geographic Information Science - 9th International Conference, 2016
2015
Development and evaluation of a geographic information retrieval system using fine grained toponyms.
J. Spatial Inf. Sci., 2015
Int. J. Humanit. Arts Comput., 2015
More Than a List: What Outdoor Free Listings of Landscape Categories Reveal About Commonsense Geographic Concepts and Memory Search Strategies.
Proceedings of the Spatial Information Theory - 12th International Conference, 2015
Proceedings of the Spatial Information Theory - 12th International Conference, 2015
2014
Comput. Environ. Urban Syst., 2014
Trans. GIS, 2014
GIR 2014 workshop report: the 8th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, Dallas, Texas, USA - November 4, 2014.
ACM SIGSPATIAL Special, 2014
GIR'13 workshop report: 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval Orlando, Florida, USA, 5th November 2013.
ACM SIGSPATIAL Special, 2014
Twitter location (sometimes) matters: Exploring the relationship between georeferenced tweet content and nearby feature classes.
J. Spatial Inf. Sci., 2014
From text to landscape: locating, identifying and mapping the use of landscape features in a Swiss Alpine corpus.
Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci., 2014
2013
User evaluation of automatically generated keywords and toponyms for geo-referenced images.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2013
Proceedings of the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Models of Place, 2013
Proceedings of the 21st SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 2013
Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, 2013
The Meanings of the Generic Parts of Toponyms: Use and Limitations of Gazetteers in Studies of Landscape Terms.
Proceedings of the Spatial Information Theory - 11th International Conference, 2013
2012
Exploring Geomorphometry through User Generated Content: Comparing an Unsupervised Geomorphometric Classification with Terms Attached to Georeferenced Images in Great Britain.
Trans. GIS, 2012
2011
Answering geographic questions with user generated content: experiences from the coal face.
Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, 2011
2010
Highlights from GIR 2010: The 6th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval (Zurich, Switzerland - February 18--19, 2010).
ACM SIGSPATIAL Special, 2010
Exploring place through user-generated content: Using Flickr tags to describe city cores.
J. Spatial Inf. Sci., 2010
Proceedings of the Representation, Analysis and Visualization of Moving Objects, 05.12., 2010
2009
Proceedings of the Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 2009
<i>Venice, City of Canals: </i> Characterizing Regions through Content Classification.
Trans. GIS, 2009
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Location and the Web, 2009
Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009
Proceedings of the Advances in GIScience, 2009
2008
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Location and the Web, 2008
Proceedings of the Geographic Information Science, 5th International Conference, 2008
Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 2008
Proceedings of the 5th ACM Workshop On Geographic Information Retrieval, 2008
Proceedings of the 5th ACM Workshop On Geographic Information Retrieval, 2008
2007
Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci., 2007
The design and implementation of SPIRIT: a spatially aware search engine for information retrieval on the Internet.
Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci., 2007
Proceedings of the Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, 2007
Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop On Geographic Information Retrieval, 2007
Resolution Sensitivity of a Compound Terrain Derivative as Computed from LiDAR-Based Elevation Data.
Proceedings of the European Information Society: Leading the Way with Geo-information, 2007
2006
An approach to evaluating motion pattern detection techniques in spatio-temporal data.
Comput. Environ. Urban Syst., 2006
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2006
2005
Comput. Geosci., 2005
Proceedings of the Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, 2005
2004
Evaluating Methods for Interpolating Continuous Surfaces from Irregular Data: a Case Study.
Proceedings of the Developments in Spatial Data Handling, 2004
2002
Spatial information retrieval and geographical ontologies an overview of the SPIRIT project.
Proceedings of the SIGIR 2002: Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2002
2001
1998
J. Documentation, 1998