Ross S. Purves

74 papers C 3Journal 42Unranked 24
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Extracting and analysing geographic information from natural language texts.
Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci.
Xuke Hu, Ross S. Purves, Ludovic Moncla, Jens Kersten, Kristin Stock
2025 — conf
Developing a Spatially Explicit Humanitarian Flood Vulnerability Index for Refugee Settlements using Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis.
AGILE Conference
Annika Kunz, Ross S. Purves, Bruna Rohling
2024 — conf
Fine-Tuning Transformers for Toponym Resolution: A Contextual Embedding Approach to Candidate Ranking.
GeoExT@ECIR
Diego Gomes, Ross S. Purves, Michele Volpi
2024 — conf
Locality and transferability: examining pre-built lexicons to elicit landscape values from natural language.
AGILE Conf.
Inhye Kong, Ross S. Purves
2023 J jnl
Conceptualizing Landscapes Through Language: The Role of Native Language and Expertise in the Representation of Waterbody Related Terms.
Top. Cogn. Sci.
Ross S. Purves, Philipp Striedl, Inhye Kong, Asifa Majid
2023 — conf
Extracting positive descriptions and exploring landscape value using text analysis in the Cairngorms National Park.
GeoHumanities@SIGSPATIAL
Daniela Mariño, Ludovic Moncla, Ross S. Purves
2023 J jnl
Identifying Landscape Relevant Natural Language using Actively Crowdsourced Landscape Descriptions and Sentence-Transformers.
Künstliche Intell.
Manuel F. Baer, Ross S. Purves
2023 J jnl
Seeing through a new lens: exploring the potential of city walking tour videos for urban analytics.
Int. J. Digit. Earth
Maximilian C. Hartmann, Ross S. Purves
2022 J jnl
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
Maximilian C. Hartmann, Moritz Schott, Alishiba Dsouza, Yannick Metz, Michele Volpi, Ross S. Purves
2022 — conf
Towards an Automated Information Extraction Model from Twitter Threads during Disasters.
ISCRAM
Kiran Zahra, Rahul Deb Das, Frank O. Ostermann, Ross S. Purves
2020 J jnl
Exploring the Potential of Twitter to Understand Traffic Events and Their Locations in Greater Mumbai, India.
IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst.
Rahul Deb Das, Ross S. Purves
2020 J jnl
How Can Geographic Information in Text Documents be Visualized to Support Information Exploration in the Humanities?
Int. J. Humanit. Arts Comput.
Andre Bruggmann, Sara Irina Fabrikant, Ross S. Purves
2020 J jnl
Machine learning for cross-gazetteer matching of natural features.
Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci.
Elise Acheson, Michele Volpi, Ross S. Purves
2020 J jnl
Streets of London: Using Flickr and OpenStreetMap to build an interactive image of the city.
Comput. Environ. Urban Syst.
Azam Raha Bahrehdar, Benjamin Adams, Ross S. Purves
2020 — conf
Text Meets Space: Geographic Content Extraction, Resolution and Information Retrieval.
ECIR (2)
Jochen L. Leidner, Bruno Martins, Katherine McDonough, Ross S. Purves
2019 J jnl
Approaching location-based services from a place-based perspective: from data to services?
J. Locat. Based Serv.
Azam Raha Bahrehdar, Olga Koblet, Ross S. Purves
2019 J jnl
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.
Olga Chesnokova, Joanna E. Taylor, Ian N. Gregory, Ross S. Purves
2019 J jnl
Places in Information Science.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol.
Ross S. Purves, Stephan Winter, Werner Kuhn
2019 J jnl
StarBorn: Towards making in-situ land cover data generation fun with a location-based game.
Trans. GIS
Manuel F. Baer, Flurina M. Wartmann, Ross S. Purves
2018 — conf
Automatically creating a spatially referenced corpus of landscape perception.
GIR@SIGSPATIAL
Olga Chesnokova, Ross S. Purves
2018 J jnl
Describing and comparing landscapes using tags, texts, and free lists: an interdisciplinary approach.
Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci.
Flurina M. Wartmann, Elise Acheson, Ross S. Purves
2018 J jnl
Description and characterization of place properties using topic modeling on georeferenced tags.
Geo spatial Inf. Sci.
Azam Raha Bahrehdar, Ross S. Purves
2018 J jnl
Fictive motion extraction and classification.
Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci.
Ekaterina Egorova, Ludovic Moncla, Mauro Gaio, Christophe Claramunt, Ross S. Purves
2018 J jnl
Fictive motion in the context of mountaineering.
Spatial Cogn. Comput.
Ekaterina Egorova, Thora Tenbrink, Ross S. Purves
2018 J jnl
GIR'18 Workshop Report 12th ACM SIGSPATIAL workshop on geographic information retrieval seattle, USA 6
ACM SIGSPATIAL Special
Ross S. Purves, Christopher B. Jones
2018 J jnl
Geographic Information Retrieval: Progress and Challenges in Spatial Search of Text.
Found. Trends Inf. Retr.
Ross S. Purves, Paul D. Clough, Christopher B. Jones, Mark M. Hall, Vanessa Murdock
2018 — ch.
Geographical Information Retrieval.
Encyclopedia of Database Systems (2nd ed.)
Christopher B. Jones, Ross S. Purves
2018 — ed.
Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, GIR@SIGSPATIAL 2018, Seattle, WA, USA, November 6, 2018
GIR@SIGSPATIAL
Ross S. Purves, Christopher B. Jones
2018 — conf
Towards the Usefulness of User-Generated Content to Understand Traffic Events (Short Paper).
GIScience
Rahul Deb Das, Ross S. Purves
2017 — conf
A Crowdsourced Model of Landscape Preference.
COSIT
Olga Chesnokova, Mario Nowak, Ross S. Purves
2017 J jnl
A quantitative analysis of global gazetteers: Patterns of coverage for common feature types.
Comput. Environ. Urban Syst.
Elise Acheson, Stefano De Sabbata, Ross S. Purves
2017 J jnl
Evaluating Topological Queries in Linked Data Using DBpedia and GeoNames in Switzerland and Scotland.
Trans. GIS
Rolf Grütter, Ross S. Purves, Lukas Wotruba
2017 — conf
Frame-Relative Constructions in the Description of Motion.
COSIT (Workshops/Posters)
Ekaterina Egorova, Ross S. Purves
2017 — conf
Gazetteer matching for natural features in Switzerland.
GIR
Elise Acheson, Julia Villette, Michele Volpi, Ross S. Purves
2017 — conf
Generating Spatial Footprints from Hiking Blogs.
COSIT (Workshops/Posters)
Elise Acheson, Flurina M. Wartmann, Ross S. Purves
2017 J jnl
Geographic variability of Twitter usage characteristics during disaster events.
Geo spatial Inf. Sci.
Kiran Zahra, Frank O. Ostermann, Ross S. Purves
2017 — conf
Lake District Soundscapes: Analysing Aural Experience Through Text.
COSIT (Workshops/Posters)
Olga Chesnokova, Joanna E. Taylor, Ross S. Purves
2017 — ed.
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, GIR 2017, Heidelberg, Germany, November 30 - December 01, 2017
GIR
Christopher B. Jones, Ross S. Purves
2017 J jnl
Terrestrial laser scanning improves digital elevation models and topsoil pH modelling in regions with complex topography and dense vegetation.
Environ. Model. Softw.
Andri Baltensweiler, Lorenz Walthert, Christian Ginzler, Flurin Sutter, Ross S. Purves, Marc Hanewinkel
2016 J jnl
Assessing geographic relevance for mobile search: A computational model and its validation via crowdsourcing.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol.
Tumasch Reichenbacher, Stefano De Sabbata, Ross S. Purves, Sara Irina Fabrikant
2016 J jnl
Mining nearness relations from an n-grams Web corpus in geographical space.
Spatial Cogn. Comput.
Curdin Derungs, Ross S. Purves
2015 J jnl
From Space to Place: Place-Based Explorations of Text.
Int. J. Humanit. Arts Comput.
Ross S. Purves, Curdin Derungs
2015 — conf
More Than a List: What Outdoor Free Listings of Landscape Categories Reveal About Commonsense Geographic Concepts and Memory Search Strategies.
COSIT
Flurina M. Wartmann, Ekaterina Egorova, Curdin Derungs, David M. Mark, Ross S. Purves
2015 — ed.
Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, GIR 2015, Paris, France, November 26-27, 2015
GIR
Ross S. Purves, Christopher B. Jones
2015 — conf
Where Snow is a Landmark: Route Direction Elements in Alpine Contexts.
COSIT
Ekaterina Egorova, Thora Tenbrink, Ross S. Purves
2014 J jnl
Exploring and Visualizing Differences in Geographic and Linguistic Web Coverage.
Trans. GIS
Ramya Venkateswaran, Robert Weibel, Ross S. Purves
2014 J jnl
From text to landscape: locating, identifying and mapping the use of landscape features in a Swiss Alpine corpus.
Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci.
Curdin Derungs, Ross S. Purves
2014 J jnl
GIR 2014 workshop report: the 8th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, Dallas, Texas, USA - November 4, 2014.
ACM SIGSPATIAL Special
Christopher B. Jones, Ross S. Purves
2014 J jnl
GIR'13 workshop report: 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval Orlando, Florida, USA, 5th November 2013.
ACM SIGSPATIAL Special
Christopher B. Jones, Ross S. Purves
2014 J jnl
Moving beyond the point: An agenda for research in movement analysis with real data.
Comput. Environ. Urban Syst.
Ross S. Purves, Patrick Laube, Maike Buchin, Bettina Speckmann
2013 — conf
Computing similarity of coarse and irregular trajectories using space-time prisms.
SIGSPATIAL/GIS
Maike Buchin, Ross S. Purves
2013 — conf
The Meanings of the Generic Parts of Toponyms: Use and Limitations of Gazetteers in Studies of Landscape Terms.
COSIT
Curdin Derungs, Flurina Wartmann, Ross S. Purves, David M. Mark
2012 J jnl
Exploring Geomorphometry through User Generated Content: Comparing an Unsupervised Geomorphometric Classification with Terms Attached to Georeferenced Images in Great Britain.
Trans. GIS
Christian Gschwend, Ross S. Purves
2011 — conf
Answering geographic questions with user generated content: experiences from the coal face.
SCG
Ross S. Purves
2011 J jnl
Computation and Elicitation of Valleyness.
Spatial Cogn. Comput.
Ralph K. Straumann, Ross S. Purves
2011 J jnl
How fast is a cow? Cross-Scale Analysis of Movement Data.
Trans. GIS
Patrick Laube, Ross S. Purves
2009 — ch.
Geographical Information Retrieval.
Encyclopedia of Database Systems
Christopher B. Jones, Ross S. Purves
2009 — conf
Identification of Practically Visible Spatial Objects in Natural Environments.
AGILE Conf.
Martin Tomko, Friedjoff Trautwein, Ross S. Purves
2008 — conf
A caption annotation scheme for georeferencing images.
GIR
Emma J. Barker, Ross S. Purves
2008 — conf
Delineation of Valleys and Valley Floors.
GIScience
Ralph K. Straumann, Ross S. Purves
2008 J jnl
Geographical information retrieval.
Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci.
Christopher B. Jones, Ross S. Purves
2008 — conf
Mapping geographic coverage of the web.
GIS
Robert C. Pasley, Paul D. Clough, Ross S. Purves, Florian A. Twaroch
2008 J jnl
Modelling vague places with knowledge from the Web.
Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci.
Christopher B. Jones, Ross S. Purves, Paul D. Clough, Hideo Joho
2008 J jnl
Variable-resolution Compression of Vector Data.
GeoInformatica
Bisheng Yang, Ross S. Purves, Robert Weibel
2007 C conf
A Theoretical Grounding for Semantic Descriptions of Place.
W2GIS
Alistair J. Edwardes, Ross S. Purves
2007 — conf
Eliciting concepts of
GIR
Alistair J. Edwardes, Ross S. Purves
2007 — conf
Resolution Sensitivity of a Compound Terrain Derivative as Computed from LiDAR-Based Elevation Data.
AGILE Conf.
Ralph K. Straumann, Ross S. Purves
2007 J jnl
The design and implementation of SPIRIT: a spatially aware search engine for information retrieval on the Internet.
Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci.
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
2006 J jnl
An approach to evaluating motion pattern detection techniques in spatio-temporal data.
Comput. Environ. Urban Syst.
Patrick Laube, Ross S. Purves
2005 C conf
Geo-Enabling Spatially Relevant Data for Mobile Information Use and Visualisation.
W2GIS
Alistair J. Edwardes, Dirk Burghardt, Eduardo Dias, Ross S. Purves, Robert Weibel
2005 J jnl
The e-MapScholar project - an example of interoperability in GIScience education.
Comput. Geosci.
Ross S. Purves, David Medyckyj-Scott, William A. Mackaness
2004 C conf
Evaluating Methods for Interpolating Continuous Surfaces from Irregular Data: a Case Study.
SDH
Marco Hugentobler, Ross S. Purves, Bernhard Schneider
2001 J jnl
Automated Displacement for Large Numbers of Discrete Map Objects.
Algorithmica
William A. Mackaness, Ross S. Purves
1998 J jnl
A methodology to allow avalanche forecasting on an information retrieval system.
J. Documentation
Ross S. Purves, Mark Sanderson