A methodology to allow avalanche forecasting on an information retrieval system. - Ross S. Purves; Mark Sanderson (J. Documentation, 1998)

Automated Displacement for Large Numbers of Discrete Map Objects. - William A. Mackaness; Ross S. Purves (Algorithmica, 2001)

Spatial information retrieval and geographical ontologies an overview of the SPIRIT project. - Christopher B. Jones; Ross Purves; Anne Ruas; Mark Sanderson; Monika Sester; Marc J. van Kreveld; Robert Weibel (SIGIR, 2002)

Evaluating Methods for Interpolating Continuous Surfaces from Irregular Data: a Case Study. - Marco Hugentobler; Ross S. Purves; Bernhard Schneider (SDH, 2004)

Workshop on geographic information retrieval, SIGIR 2004. - Ross Purves; Christopher B. Jones (SIGIR Forum, 2004)

Geo-Enabling Spatially Relevant Data for Mobile Information Use and Visualisation. - Alistair J. Edwardes; Dirk Burghardt; Eduardo Dias 001; Ross S. Purves; Robert Weibel (W2GIS, 2005)

The e-MapScholar project - an example of interoperability in GIScience education. - Ross S. Purves; David Medyckyj-Scott; William A. Mackaness (Comput. Geosci., 2005)

Judging the Spatial Relevance of Documents for GIR. - Paul D. Clough; Hideo Joho; Ross Purves (ECIR, 2006)

GIR'05 2005 ACM workshop on geographical information retrieval. - Christopher B. Jones; Ross Purves (SIGIR Forum, 2006)

Workshop on geographic information retrieval held at SIGIR'06. - Ross Purves; Christopher B. Jones (SIGIR Forum, 2006)

An approach to evaluating motion pattern detection techniques in spatio-temporal data. - Patrick Laube; Ross S. Purves (Comput. Environ. Urban Syst., 2006)

Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR). - Ross Purves; Christopher B. Jones (Comput. Environ. Urban Syst., 2006)

Resolution Sensitivity of a Compound Terrain Derivative as Computed from LiDAR-Based Elevation Data. - Ralph K. Straumann; Ross S. Purves (AGILE Conf., 2007)

Eliciting concepts of place for text-based image retrieval. - Alistair J. Edwardes; Ross S. Purves (GIR, 2007)

A Theoretical Grounding for Semantic Descriptions of Place. - Alistair J. Edwardes; Ross S. Purves (W2GIS, 2007)

The design and implementation of SPIRIT: a spatially aware search engine for information retrieval on the Internet. - Ross S. Purves; Paul D. Clough; Christopher B. Jones; Avi Arampatzis; Bénédicte Bucher; David Finch; Gaihua Fu; Hideo Joho; Awase Khirni Syed; Subodh Vaid; Bisheng Yang (Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci., 2007)

Efficient transmission of vector data over the Internet. - Bisheng Yang; Ross Purves; Robert Weibel (Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci., 2007)

A caption annotation scheme for georeferencing images. - Emma J. Barker; Ross S. Purves (GIR, 2008)

Spatial autocorrelation and toponym ambiguity. - Tobias Josef Brunner; Ross Purves (GIR, 2008)

Mapping geographic coverage of the web. - Robert C. Pasley; Paul D. Clough; Ross S. Purves; Florian A. Twaroch (GIS, 2008)

Delineation of Valleys and Valley Floors. - Ralph K. Straumann; Ross S. Purves (GIScience, 2008)

Location and the Web: (LocWeb 2008). - Susanne Boll; Christopher B. Jones; Eric Kansa; Puneet Kishor; Mor Naaman; Ross Purves; Arno Scharl; Erik Wilde (LocWeb, 2008)

Variable-resolution Compression of Vector Data. - Bisheng Yang; Ross S. Purves; Robert Weibel (GeoInformatica, 2008)

Geographical information retrieval. - Christopher B. Jones; Ross S. Purves (Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci., 2008)

Modelling vague places with knowledge from the Web. - Christopher B. Jones; Ross S. Purves; Paul D. Clough; Hideo Joho (Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci., 2008)

Identification of Practically Visible Spatial Objects in Natural Environments. - Martin Tomko; Friedjoff Trautwein; Ross S. Purves (AGILE Conf., 2009)

Location and the web: (LocWeb 2009). - Erik Wilde; Susanne Boll; Keith Cheverst; Peter Fröhlich 003; Ross Purves; Johannes Schöning (CHI Extended Abstracts, 2009)

Second International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2009). - Erik Wilde; Susanne Boll; Keith Cheverst; Peter Fröhlich 003; Ross Purves; Johannes Schöning (LocWeb, 2009)

Venice, City of Canals: Characterizing Regions through Content Classification. - Martin Tomko; Ross S. Purves (Trans. GIS, 2009)

Geographical Information Retrieval. - Christopher B. Jones; Ross S. Purves (Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 2009)

10491 Results of the break-out group: Benchmarking. - Emiel van Loon; Ross Purves; Robert Weibel (Representation, Analysis and Visualization of Moving Objects, 2010)

Exploring place through user-generated content: Using Flickr tags to describe city cores. - Livia Hollenstein; Ross Purves (J. Spatial Inf. Sci., 2010)

Highlights from GIR 2010: The 6th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval (Zurich, Switzerland - February 18–19, 2010). - Ross Purves; Paul D. Clough; Christopher B. Jones (ACM SIGSPATIAL Special, 2010)

Answering geographic questions with user generated content: experiences from the coal face. - Ross S. Purves (SCG, 2011)

Describing place through user generated content. - Ross Purves; Alistair J. Edwardes; Jo Wood (First Monday, 2011)

Computation and Elicitation of Valleyness. - Ralph K. Straumann; Ross S. Purves (Spatial Cogn. Comput., 2011)

Geographic Information Retrieval. - Ross Purves; Christopher B. Jones (ACM SIGSPATIAL Special, 2011)

How fast is a cow? Cross-Scale Analysis of Movement Data. - Patrick Laube; Ross S. Purves (Trans. GIS, 2011)

Exploring Geomorphometry through User Generated Content: Comparing an Unsupervised Geomorphometric Classification with Terms Attached to Georeferenced Images in Great Britain. - Christian Gschwend; Ross S. Purves (Trans. GIS, 2012)

The Meanings of the Generic Parts of Toponyms: Use and Limitations of Gazetteers in Studies of Landscape Terms. - Curdin Derungs; Flurina Wartmann; Ross S. Purves; David M. Mark (COSIT, 2013)

Creating test collections from user generated content for GIR evaluation. - Damien Palacio; Curdin Derungs; Ross Purves (GIR, 2013)

Computing similarity of coarse and irregular trajectories using space-time prisms. - Maike Buchin; Ross S. Purves (SIGSPATIAL/GIS, 2013)

Semantic place localization from narratives. - Simon Scheider; Ross Purves (COMP@SIGSPATIAL, 2013)

User evaluation of automatically generated keywords and toponyms for geo-referenced images. - Frank O. Ostermann; Martin Tomko; Ross Purves (J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2013)

From text to landscape: locating, identifying and mapping the use of landscape features in a Swiss Alpine corpus. - Curdin Derungs; Ross S. Purves (Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci., 2014)

Twitter location (sometimes) matters: Exploring the relationship between georeferenced tweet content and nearby feature classes. - Stefan Hahmann; Ross Purves; Dirk Burghardt (J. Spatial Inf. Sci., 2014)

GIR'13 workshop report: 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval Orlando, Florida, USA, 5th November 2013. - Christopher B. Jones; Ross S. Purves (ACM SIGSPATIAL Special, 2014)

GIR 2014 workshop report: the 8th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, Dallas, Texas, USA - November 4, 2014. - Christopher B. Jones; Ross S. Purves (ACM SIGSPATIAL Special, 2014)

Exploring and Visualizing Differences in Geographic and Linguistic Web Coverage. - Ramya Venkateswaran; Robert Weibel; Ross S. Purves (Trans. GIS, 2014)

Moving beyond the point: An agenda for research in movement analysis with real data. - Ross S. Purves; Patrick Laube; Maike Buchin; Bettina Speckmann (Comput. Environ. Urban Syst., 2014)

Where Snow is a Landmark: Route Direction Elements in Alpine Contexts. - Ekaterina Egorova; Thora Tenbrink; Ross S. Purves (COSIT, 2015)

More Than a List: What Outdoor Free Listings of Landscape Categories Reveal About Commonsense Geographic Concepts and Memory Search Strategies. - Flurina M. Wartmann; Ekaterina Egorova; Curdin Derungs; David M. Mark; Ross S. Purves (COSIT, 2015)

From Space to Place: Place-Based Explorations of Text. - Ross S. Purves; Curdin Derungs (Int. J. Humanit. Arts Comput., 2015)

Development and evaluation of a geographic information retrieval system using fine grained toponyms. - Damien Palacio; Curdin Derungs; Ross Purves (J. Spatial Inf. Sci., 2015)

Modeling Checkpoint-Based Movement with the Earth Mover's Distance. - Matt Duckham; Marc J. van Kreveld; Ross Purves; Bettina Speckmann; Yaguang Tao; Kevin Verbeek; Jo Wood (GIScience, 2016)

Assessing geographic relevance for mobile search: A computational model and its validation via crowdsourcing. - Tumasch Reichenbacher; Stefano De Sabbata; Ross S. Purves; Sara Irina Fabrikant (J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2016)

Mining nearness relations from an n-grams Web corpus in geographical space. - Curdin Derungs; Ross S. Purves (Spatial Cogn. Comput., 2016)

Generating Spatial Footprints from Hiking Blogs. - Elise Acheson; Flurina M. Wartmann; Ross S. Purves (COSIT (Workshops/Posters), 2017)

A Crowdsourced Model of Landscape Preference. - Olga Chesnokova; Mario Nowak; Ross S. Purves (COSIT, 2017)

Lake District Soundscapes: Analysing Aural Experience Through Text. - Olga Chesnokova; Joanna E. Taylor; Ross S. Purves (COSIT (Workshops/Posters), 2017)

Frame-Relative Constructions in the Description of Motion. - Ekaterina Egorova; Ross S. Purves (COSIT (Workshops/Posters), 2017)

Gazetteer matching for natural features in Switzerland. - Elise Acheson; Julia Villette; Michele Volpi; Ross S. Purves (GIR, 2017)

Terrestrial laser scanning improves digital elevation models and topsoil pH modelling in regions with complex topography and dense vegetation. - Andri Baltensweiler; Lorenz Walthert; Christian Ginzler; Flurin Sutter; Ross S. Purves; Marc Hanewinkel (Environ. Model. Softw., 2017)

Geographic variability of Twitter usage characteristics during disaster events. - Kiran Zahra; Frank O. Ostermann; Ross S. Purves (Geo spatial Inf. Sci., 2017)

Evaluating Topological Queries in Linked Data Using DBpedia and GeoNames in Switzerland and Scotland. - Rolf Grütter; Ross S. Purves; Lukas Wotruba (Trans. GIS, 2017)

A quantitative analysis of global gazetteers: Patterns of coverage for common feature types. - Elise Acheson; Stefano De Sabbata; Ross S. Purves (Comput. Environ. Urban Syst., 2017)

Automatically creating a spatially referenced corpus of landscape perception. - Olga Chesnokova; Ross S. Purves (GIR@SIGSPATIAL, 2018)

Towards the Usefulness of User-Generated Content to Understand Traffic Events (Short Paper). - Rahul Deb Das; Ross S. Purves (GIScience, 2018)

Geographic Information Retrieval: Progress and Challenges in Spatial Search of Text. - Ross S. Purves; Paul D. Clough; Christopher B. Jones; Mark M. Hall; Vanessa Murdock 001 (Found. Trends Inf. Retr., 2018)

Fictive motion extraction and classification. - Ekaterina Egorova; Ludovic Moncla; Mauro Gaio; Christophe Claramunt; Ross S. Purves (Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci., 2018)

Describing and comparing landscapes using tags, texts, and free lists: an interdisciplinary approach. - Flurina M. Wartmann; Elise Acheson; Ross S. Purves (Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci., 2018)

Description and characterization of place properties using topic modeling on georeferenced tags. - Azam Raha Bahrehdar; Ross S. Purves (Geo spatial Inf. Sci., 2018)

Fictive motion in the context of mountaineering. - Ekaterina Egorova; Thora Tenbrink; Ross S. Purves (Spatial Cogn. Comput., 2018)

GIR'18 Workshop Report 12th ACM SIGSPATIAL workshop on geographic information retrieval seattle, USA 6th November 2018. - Ross S. Purves; Christopher B. Jones (ACM SIGSPATIAL Special, 2018)

Geographical Information Retrieval. - Christopher B. Jones; Ross S. Purves (Encyclopedia of Database Systems (2nd ed.), 2018)

Hearing the silence: finding the middle ground in the spatial humanities? Extracting and comparing perceived silence and tranquillity in the English Lake District. - Olga Chesnokova; Joanna E. Taylor; Ian N. Gregory; Ross S. Purves (Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci., 2019)

A conceptual framework for studying collective reactions to events in location-based social media. - Alexander Dunkel; Gennady L. Andrienko; Natalia V. Andrienko; Dirk Burghardt; Eva Hauthal; Ross Purves (Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci., 2019)

Places in Information Science. - Ross S. Purves; Stephan Winter 001; Werner Kuhn (J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2019)

Approaching location-based services from a place-based perspective: from data to services? - Azam Raha Bahrehdar; Olga Koblet; Ross S. Purves (J. Locat. Based Serv., 2019)

Editorial. - Ross Purves; Benjamin Adams (J. Spatial Inf. Sci., 2019)

StarBorn: Towards making in-situ land cover data generation fun with a location-based game. - Manuel F. Baer; Flurina M. Wartmann; Ross S. Purves (Trans. GIS, 2019)

Text Meets Space: Geographic Content Extraction, Resolution and Information Retrieval. - Jochen L. Leidner; Bruno Martins 001; Katherine McDonough; Ross S. Purves (ECIR (2), 2020)

Machine learning for cross-gazetteer matching of natural features. - Elise Acheson; Michele Volpi; Ross S. Purves (Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci., 2020)

How Can Geographic Information in Text Documents be Visualized to Support Information Exploration in the Humanities? - Andre Bruggmann; Sara Irina Fabrikant; Ross S. Purves (Int. J. Humanit. Arts Comput., 2020)

JOSIS' 10th anniversary special feature. - Benjamin Adams; Somayeh Dodge; Ross Purves (J. Spatial Inf. Sci., 2020)

JOSIS' 10th anniversary special feature: part two. - Benjamin Adams; Somayeh Dodge; Ross Purves (J. Spatial Inf. Sci., 2020)

Exploring the Potential of Twitter to Understand Traffic Events and Their Locations in Greater Mumbai, India. - Rahul Deb Das; Ross S. Purves (IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst., 2020)

Streets of London: Using Flickr and OpenStreetMap to build an interactive image of the city. - Azam Raha Bahrehdar; Benjamin Adams; Ross S. Purves (Comput. Environ. Urban Syst., 2020)

Effects of traffic perturbations on bike sharing demand - a case study of public transport strikes and protests in Paris. - Stefan S. Ivanovic; Ross Purves (AGILE Conf., 2022)

Towards an Automated Information Extraction Model from Twitter Threads during Disasters. - Kiran Zahra; Rahul Deb Das; Frank O. Ostermann; Ross S. Purves (ISCRAM, 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. - Maximilian C. Hartmann; Moritz Schott; Alishiba Dsouza; Yannick Metz; Michele Volpi; Ross S. Purves (Ecol. Informatics, 2022)

A comparative assessment of machine learning methods in extracting place functionality from textual content. - Mina Karimi; Mohammad Saadi Mesgari; Ross Stuart Purves (Trans. GIS, 2022)

Extracting positive descriptions and exploring landscape value using text analysis in the Cairngorms National Park. - Daniela Mariño; Ludovic Moncla; Ross S. Purves (GeoHumanities@SIGSPATIAL, 2023)

Identifying Landscape Relevant Natural Language using Actively Crowdsourced Landscape Descriptions and Sentence-Transformers. - Manuel F. Baer; Ross S. Purves (Künstliche Intell., 2023)

Conceptualizing Landscapes Through Language: The Role of Native Language and Expertise in the Representation of Waterbody Related Terms. - Ross S. Purves; Philipp Striedl; Inhye Kong; Asifa Majid (Top. Cogn. Sci., 2023)

Seeing through a new lens: exploring the potential of city walking tour videos for urban analytics. - Maximilian C. Hartmann; Ross S. Purves (Int. J. Digit. Earth, 2023)

Locality and transferability: examining pre-built lexicons to elicit landscape values from natural language. - Inhye Kong; Ross S. Purves (AGILE Conf., 2024)

Fine-Tuning Transformers for Toponym Resolution: A Contextual Embedding Approach to Candidate Ranking. - Diego Gomes; Ross S. Purves; Michele Volpi (GeoExT@ECIR, 2024)

2nd International Workshop on Geographic Information Extraction from Texts (GeoExT 2024). - Xuke Hu; Ross Purves; Ludovic Moncla; Jens Kersten; Kristin Stock (ECIR (5), 2024)

3rd International Workshop on Geographic Information Extraction from Texts (GeoExT 2025). - Xuke Hu; Ross Purves; Ludovic Moncla; Jens Kersten; Anna M. Kruspe (ECIR (5), 2025)

A Programming Platform Design for Children to Create and Explore Hybrid Musical Instruments. - Nicolas Gold; Evangelos Himonides; Ross Purves; Hazel Baxter (Softw. Pract. Exp., 2025)

Probabilistic qualitative spatial reasoning with applications to GeoQA. - Mohammad Kazemi Beydokhti; Matt Duckham; Amy L. Griffin 001; Yaguang Tao; Ross Purves; Maria Vasardani (Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci., 2025)