Ross S. Purves

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1998-2024
Publications (10 Years): 38

Top Topics

Geographic Information

International Workshop

Content Extraction

Top Venues

Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci.

COSIT (Workshops/Posters)

ACM SIGSPATIAL Special

Comput. Environ. Urban Syst.

Publications

Diego Gomes, Ross S. Purves, Michele Volpi
Fine-Tuning Transformers for Toponym Resolution: A Contextual Embedding Approach to Candidate Ranking. GeoExT@ECIR (2024)
Daniela Mariño, Ludovic Moncla, Ross S. Purves
Extracting positive descriptions and exploring landscape value using text analysis in the Cairngorms National Park. GeoHumanities@SIGSPATIAL (2023)
Maximilian C. Hartmann, Ross S. Purves
Seeing through a new lens: exploring the potential of city walking tour videos for urban analytics. Int. J. Digit. Earth 16 (1) (2023)
Ross S. Purves, Philipp Striedl, Inhye Kong, Asifa Majid
Conceptualizing Landscapes Through Language: The Role of Native Language and Expertise in the Representation of Waterbody Related Terms. Top. Cogn. Sci. 15 (3) (2023)
Manuel F. Baer, Ross S. Purves
Identifying Landscape Relevant Natural Language using Actively Crowdsourced Landscape Descriptions and Sentence-Transformers. Künstliche Intell. 37 (1) (2023)
Maximilian C. Hartmann, Moritz Schott, Alishiba Dsouza, Yannick Metz, Michele Volpi, Ross S. Purves
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 71 (2022)
Kiran Zahra, Rahul Deb Das, Frank O. Ostermann, Ross S. Purves
Towards an Automated Information Extraction Model from Twitter Threads during Disasters. ISCRAM (2022)
Andre Bruggmann, Sara Irina Fabrikant, Ross S. Purves
How Can Geographic Information in Text Documents be Visualized to Support Information Exploration in the Humanities? Int. J. Humanit. Arts Comput. 14 (1-2) (2020)
Rahul Deb Das, Ross S. Purves
Exploring the Potential of Twitter to Understand Traffic Events and Their Locations in Greater Mumbai, India. IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst. 21 (12) (2020)
Elise Acheson, Michele Volpi, Ross S. Purves
Machine learning for cross-gazetteer matching of natural features. Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci. 34 (4) (2020)
Azam Raha Bahrehdar, Benjamin Adams, Ross S. Purves
Streets of London: Using Flickr and OpenStreetMap to build an interactive image of the city. Comput. Environ. Urban Syst. 84 (2020)
Jochen L. Leidner, Bruno Martins, Katherine McDonough, Ross S. Purves
Text Meets Space: Geographic Content Extraction, Resolution and Information Retrieval. ECIR (2) (2020)
Ross S. Purves, Stephan Winter, Werner Kuhn
Places in Information Science. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 70 (11) (2019)
Azam Raha Bahrehdar, Olga Koblet, Ross S. Purves
Approaching location-based services from a place-based perspective: from data to services? J. Locat. Based Serv. 13 (2) (2019)
Manuel F. Baer, Flurina M. Wartmann, Ross S. Purves
StarBorn: Towards making in-situ land cover data generation fun with a location-based game. Trans. GIS 23 (5) (2019)
Olga Chesnokova, Joanna E. Taylor, Ian N. Gregory, Ross S. Purves
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. 33 (12) (2019)
Azam Raha Bahrehdar, Ross S. Purves
Description and characterization of place properties using topic modeling on georeferenced tags. Geo spatial Inf. Sci. 21 (3) (2018)
Olga Chesnokova, Ross S. Purves
Automatically creating a spatially referenced corpus of landscape perception. GIR@SIGSPATIAL (2018)
Ross S. Purves, Christopher B. Jones
November 2018. ACM SIGSPATIAL Special 10 (3) (2018)
Ekaterina Egorova, Ludovic Moncla, Mauro Gaio, Christophe Claramunt, Ross S. Purves
Fictive motion extraction and classification. Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci. 32 (11) (2018)
Flurina M. Wartmann, Elise Acheson, Ross S. Purves
Describing and comparing landscapes using tags, texts, and free lists: an interdisciplinary approach. Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci. 32 (8) (2018)
Ekaterina Egorova, Thora Tenbrink, Ross S. Purves
Fictive motion in the context of mountaineering. Spatial Cogn. Comput. 18 (4) (2018)
Rahul Deb Das, Ross S. Purves
Towards the Usefulness of User-Generated Content to Understand Traffic Events (Short Paper). GIScience (2018)
Ross S. Purves, Paul D. Clough, Christopher B. Jones, Mark M. Hall, Vanessa Murdock
Geographic Information Retrieval: Progress and Challenges in Spatial Search of Text. Found. Trends Inf. Retr. 12 (2-3) (2018)
Kiran Zahra, Frank O. Ostermann, Ross S. Purves
Geographic variability of Twitter usage characteristics during disaster events. Geo spatial Inf. Sci. 20 (3) (2017)
Ekaterina Egorova, Ross S. Purves
Frame-Relative Constructions in the Description of Motion. COSIT (Workshops/Posters) (2017)
Elise Acheson, Stefano De Sabbata, Ross S. Purves
A quantitative analysis of global gazetteers: Patterns of coverage for common feature types. Comput. Environ. Urban Syst. 64 (2017)
Olga Chesnokova, Mario Nowak, Ross S. Purves
A Crowdsourced Model of Landscape Preference. COSIT (2017)
Elise Acheson, Julia Villette, Michele Volpi, Ross S. Purves
Gazetteer matching for natural features in Switzerland. GIR (2017)
Olga Chesnokova, Joanna E. Taylor, Ross S. Purves
Lake District Soundscapes: Analysing Aural Experience Through Text. COSIT (Workshops/Posters) (2017)
Elise Acheson, Flurina M. Wartmann, Ross S. Purves
Generating Spatial Footprints from Hiking Blogs. COSIT (Workshops/Posters) (2017)
Rolf Grütter, Ross S. Purves, Lukas Wotruba
Evaluating Topological Queries in Linked Data Using DBpedia and GeoNames in Switzerland and Scotland. Trans. GIS 21 (1) (2017)
Andri Baltensweiler, Lorenz Walthert, Christian Ginzler, Flurin Sutter, Ross S. Purves, Marc Hanewinkel
Terrestrial laser scanning improves digital elevation models and topsoil pH modelling in regions with complex topography and dense vegetation. Environ. Model. Softw. 95 (2017)
Curdin Derungs, Ross S. Purves
Mining nearness relations from an n-grams Web corpus in geographical space. Spatial Cogn. Comput. 16 (4) (2016)
Tumasch Reichenbacher, Stefano De Sabbata, Ross S. Purves, Sara Irina Fabrikant
Assessing geographic relevance for mobile search: A computational model and its validation via crowdsourcing. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 67 (11) (2016)
Flurina M. Wartmann, Ekaterina Egorova, Curdin Derungs, David M. Mark, Ross S. Purves
More Than a List: What Outdoor Free Listings of Landscape Categories Reveal About Commonsense Geographic Concepts and Memory Search Strategies. COSIT (2015)
Ekaterina Egorova, Thora Tenbrink, Ross S. Purves
Where Snow is a Landmark: Route Direction Elements in Alpine Contexts. COSIT (2015)
Ross S. Purves, Curdin Derungs
From Space to Place: Place-Based Explorations of Text. Int. J. Humanit. Arts Comput. 9 (1) (2015)
Curdin Derungs, Ross S. Purves
From text to landscape: locating, identifying and mapping the use of landscape features in a Swiss Alpine corpus. Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci. 28 (6) (2014)
Ramya Venkateswaran, Robert Weibel, Ross S. Purves
Exploring and Visualizing Differences in Geographic and Linguistic Web Coverage. Trans. GIS 18 (6) (2014)
Ross S. Purves, Patrick Laube, Maike Buchin, Bettina Speckmann
Moving beyond the point: An agenda for research in movement analysis with real data. Comput. Environ. Urban Syst. 47 (2014)
Christopher B. Jones, Ross S. Purves
GIR 2014 workshop report: the 8th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, Dallas, Texas, USA - November 4, 2014. ACM SIGSPATIAL Special 6 (3) (2014)
Christopher B. Jones, Ross S. Purves
GIR'13 workshop report: 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval Orlando, Florida, USA, 5th November 2013. ACM SIGSPATIAL Special 6 (1) (2014)
Curdin Derungs, Flurina Wartmann, Ross S. Purves, David M. Mark
The Meanings of the Generic Parts of Toponyms: Use and Limitations of Gazetteers in Studies of Landscape Terms. COSIT (2013)
Maike Buchin, Ross S. Purves
Computing similarity of coarse and irregular trajectories using space-time prisms. SIGSPATIAL/GIS (2013)
Christian Gschwend, Ross S. Purves
Exploring Geomorphometry through User Generated Content: Comparing an Unsupervised Geomorphometric Classification with Terms Attached to Georeferenced Images in Great Britain. Trans. GIS 16 (4) (2012)
Ross S. Purves
Answering geographic questions with user generated content: experiences from the coal face. SCG (2011)
Ralph K. Straumann, Ross S. Purves
Computation and Elicitation of Valleyness. Spatial Cogn. Comput. 11 (2) (2011)
Patrick Laube, Ross S. Purves
How fast is a cow? Cross-Scale Analysis of Movement Data. Trans. GIS 15 (3) (2011)
Martin Tomko, Friedjoff Trautwein, Ross S. Purves
Identification of Practically Visible Spatial Objects in Natural Environments. AGILE Conf. (2009)
Martin Tomko, Ross S. Purves
Characterizing Regions through Content Classification. Trans. GIS 13 (3) (2009)
Christopher B. Jones, Ross S. Purves
Geographical information retrieval. Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci. 22 (3) (2008)
Emma J. Barker, Ross S. Purves
A caption annotation scheme for georeferencing images. GIR (2008)
Robert C. Pasley, Paul D. Clough, Ross S. Purves, Florian A. Twaroch
Mapping geographic coverage of the web. GIS (2008)
Christopher B. Jones, Ross S. Purves, Paul D. Clough, Hideo Joho
Modelling vague places with knowledge from the Web. Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci. 22 (10) (2008)
Ralph K. Straumann, Ross S. Purves
Delineation of Valleys and Valley Floors. GIScience (2008)
Bisheng Yang, Ross S. Purves, Robert Weibel
Variable-resolution Compression of Vector Data. GeoInformatica 12 (3) (2008)
Alistair J. Edwardes, Ross S. Purves
for text-based image retrieval. GIR (2007)
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
The design and implementation of SPIRIT: a spatially aware search engine for information retrieval on the Internet. Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci. 21 (7) (2007)
Alistair J. Edwardes, Ross S. Purves
A Theoretical Grounding for Semantic Descriptions of Place. W2GIS (2007)
Ralph K. Straumann, Ross S. Purves
Resolution Sensitivity of a Compound Terrain Derivative as Computed from LiDAR-Based Elevation Data. AGILE Conf. (2007)
Patrick Laube, Ross S. Purves
An approach to evaluating motion pattern detection techniques in spatio-temporal data. Comput. Environ. Urban Syst. 30 (3) (2006)
Ross S. Purves, David Medyckyj-Scott, William A. Mackaness
The e-MapScholar project - an example of interoperability in GIScience education. Comput. Geosci. 31 (2) (2005)
Alistair J. Edwardes, Dirk Burghardt, Eduardo Dias, Ross S. Purves, Robert Weibel
Geo-Enabling Spatially Relevant Data for Mobile Information Use and Visualisation. W2GIS (2005)
Marco Hugentobler, Ross S. Purves, Bernhard Schneider
Evaluating Methods for Interpolating Continuous Surfaces from Irregular Data: a Case Study. SDH (2004)
William A. Mackaness, Ross S. Purves
Automated Displacement for Large Numbers of Discrete Map Objects. Algorithmica 30 (2) (2001)
Ross S. Purves, Mark Sanderson
A methodology to allow avalanche forecasting on an information retrieval system. J. Documentation 54 (2) (1998)