Ross Purves

Orcid: 0000-0002-9878-9243

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  • University of Zurich, Switzerland


According to our database1, Ross Purves authored at least 95 papers between 1998 and 2024.

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2024
2nd International Workshop on Geographic Information Extraction from Texts (GeoExT 2024).
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 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

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

JOSIS' 10th anniversary special feature: part two.
J. Spatial Inf. Sci., 2020

JOSIS' 10th anniversary special feature.
J. Spatial Inf. Sci., 2020

How Can Geographic Information in Text Documents be Visualized to Support Information Exploration in the Humanities?
Int. J. Humanit. Arts Comput., 2020

Machine learning for cross-gazetteer matching of natural features.
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

Editorial.
J. Spatial Inf. Sci., 2019

Approaching location-based services from a place-based perspective: from data to services?
J. Locat. Based Serv., 2019

Places in Information Science.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 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
Geographical Information Retrieval.
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

Fictive motion in the context of mountaineering.
Spatial Cogn. Comput., 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

Fictive motion extraction and classification.
Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci., 2018

Geographic Information Retrieval: Progress and Challenges in Spatial Search of Text.
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

Automatically creating a spatially referenced corpus of landscape perception.
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

Geographic variability of Twitter usage characteristics during disaster events.
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

Gazetteer matching for natural features in Switzerland.
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, 2017

Frame-Relative Constructions in the Description of Motion.
Proceedings of Workshops and Posters at the 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, 2017

Lake District Soundscapes: Analysing Aural Experience Through Text.
Proceedings of Workshops and Posters at the 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, 2017

A Crowdsourced Model of Landscape Preference.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, 2017

Generating Spatial Footprints from Hiking Blogs.
Proceedings of Workshops and Posters at the 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, 2017

2016
Mining nearness relations from an n-grams Web corpus in geographical space.
Spatial Cogn. Comput., 2016

Assessing geographic relevance for mobile search: A computational model and its validation via crowdsourcing.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2016

Modeling Checkpoint-Based Movement with the Earth Mover's Distance.
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

From Space to Place: Place-Based Explorations of Text.
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

Where Snow is a Landmark: Route Direction Elements in Alpine Contexts.
Proceedings of the Spatial Information Theory - 12th International Conference, 2015

2014
Moving beyond the point: An agenda for research in movement analysis with real data.
Comput. Environ. Urban Syst., 2014

Exploring and Visualizing Differences in Geographic and Linguistic Web Coverage.
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

Semantic place localization from narratives.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Models of Place, 2013

Computing similarity of coarse and irregular trajectories using space-time prisms.
Proceedings of the 21st SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 2013

Creating test collections from user generated content for GIR evaluation.
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
How fast is a cow? Cross-Scale Analysis of Movement Data.
Trans. GIS, 2011

Geographic Information Retrieval.
ACM SIGSPATIAL Special, 2011

Computation and Elicitation of Valleyness.
Spatial Cogn. Comput., 2011

Describing place through user generated content.
First Monday, 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

10491 Results of the break-out group: Benchmarking.
Proceedings of the Representation, Analysis and Visualization of Moving Objects, 05.12., 2010

2009
Geographical Information Retrieval.
Proceedings of the Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 2009

<i>Venice, City of Canals: </i> Characterizing Regions through Content Classification.
Trans. GIS, 2009

Second International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2009).
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Location and the Web, 2009

Location and the web: (LocWeb 2009).
Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009

Identification of Practically Visible Spatial Objects in Natural Environments.
Proceedings of the Advances in GIScience, 2009

2008
Modelling vague places with knowledge from the Web.
Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci., 2008

Geographical information retrieval.
Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci., 2008

Variable-resolution Compression of Vector Data.
GeoInformatica, 2008

Location and the web (LocWeb 2008).
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2008

Delineation of Valleys and Valley Floors.
Proceedings of the Geographic Information Science, 5th International Conference, 2008

Mapping geographic coverage of the web.
Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 2008

Spatial autocorrelation and toponym ambiguity.
Proceedings of the 5th ACM Workshop On Geographic Information Retrieval, 2008

A caption annotation scheme for georeferencing images.
Proceedings of the 5th ACM Workshop On Geographic Information Retrieval, 2008

2007
Efficient transmission of vector data over the Internet.
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

A Theoretical Grounding for Semantic Descriptions of Place.
Proceedings of the Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, 2007

Eliciting concepts of <i>place</i> for text-based image retrieval.
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
Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR).
Comput. Environ. Urban Syst., 2006

An approach to evaluating motion pattern detection techniques in spatio-temporal data.
Comput. Environ. Urban Syst., 2006

Workshop on geographic information retrieval held at SIGIR'06.
SIGIR Forum, 2006

GIR'05 2005 ACM workshop on geographical information retrieval.
SIGIR Forum, 2006

Judging the Spatial Relevance of Documents for GIR.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2006

2005
The e-MapScholar project - an example of interoperability in GIScience education.
Comput. Geosci., 2005

Geo-Enabling Spatially Relevant Data for Mobile Information Use and Visualisation.
Proceedings of the Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, 2005

2004
Workshop on geographic information retrieval, SIGIR 2004.
SIGIR Forum, 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
Automated Displacement for Large Numbers of Discrete Map Objects.
Algorithmica, 2001

1998
A methodology to allow avalanche forecasting on an information retrieval system.
J. Documentation, 1998


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