Publications
2010
Plaza, L. and Lloret, E. and Aker, A. (2010) Improving Automative Image Captioning Using Text Summarization Techniques. In the proceeding of Text Speech and Dialog (TSD).
Salway, A., Kelly, L., Skadina, I., Jones, G. (2010). Portable Extraction of Partially Structured Facts from the Web. To be published in Springer LNCS Procs. ICETAL 2010 (International Conference on Natural Language Processing, Reykjavik, 16-18th August 2010).
Aker, A. & Gaizauskas, R. (2010). Model Summaries for Location-related Images. In Proceedings of the LREC-2010 Conference
Aker, A. & Gaizauskas, R. (2010). Generating image descriptions using dependency relational patterns. In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2010
Fan, X., Aker, A., Tomko, M., Smart, P., Sanderson, M., & Gaizauskas, R. (2010). Automatic image captioning from the web for GPS photographs. In Proceedings of the international conference on Multimedia information retrieval (pp. 445–448).
Purves, R. S., Edwardes, A., Fan, X., Hall, M., & Tomko, M. (2010). Automatically generating keywords for georeferenced images. In Proceedings of the GIS Research UK Conference.
Skadiņa I. 2010. Jaunas iespējas attēlu meklēšanā : ģeogrāfiskajā informācijā un valodu tehnoloģijās balstīta attēlu meklēšanas platforma TRIPOD. Proceedings of National Library of Latvia (in press).
Smart, P. , Jones, C. B. and Twaroch, F. (to appear): 'Multi-Source Toponym Data Integration and Mediation for a Meta-Gazetteer Service', In Proceedings of GiScience 2010, GiScience 2010, Zurich, Switzerland
Tang, J. and Sanderson, M. (2010) Evaluation and User Preference Study on Spatial Diversity, to appear in ECIR 2010
Tang, J. and Sanderson, M. (2010) Spatial Diversity, Do Users Appreciate it?, to appear in GIR'10
Tomko, M., & Purves, R. S. (2010). Matterhorn on the Horizon: Identification of Salient Mountains for Image. In Proceedings of the GIS Research UK Conference.
Twaroch, F. and Jones, C. B. (2010) A Web Platform for the Evaluation of Vernacular Place Names in Automatically Constructed Gazetteers, In Proceedings of Workshop on 6th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, GIR 2010, Zurich, Switzerland. (to appear)
2009
Aker, A., Gaizauskas, R. (2009) Summary Generation for Toponym-Referenced Images using Object Type Language Models. Proc. of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), 2009, Borovets, Bulgaria.
Clough, P., Sanderson, M., Abouammoh, M., Navarro, S., & Paramita, M. (2009). Multiple approaches to analysing query diversity. In Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (pp. 734–735).
Dias, E. S., Edwardes, A. J., & Purves, R. S. (2009). Analyzing and Aggregating Visitor Tracks in Protected Area. In A. Stein, W. Shi, & W. Bijker (Eds.), Quality Aspects in Spatial Data Mining. CRC Press
Dykes, J., & Wood, J. (2009). The geographic beauty of a photographic archive. In T. Segaran & J. Hammerbacher (Eds.), Beautiful Data (pp. 85-102). O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Edwardes, A. J. (2009). Geographical perspectives on location for location based services. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Location and the Web (pp. 1–4).
Gornostay T. and Aker A. (2009) Development and Implementation of Multilingual Object Type Toponym-Referenced Texts for Optimizing Automatic Image Description in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics , May 27-31, Bekasovo, Russia.
Hall,M.M., and Jones, C.B. (2009) Initialising and Terminating Active Contours for Vague Field Crisping, GISRUK 2009, 04/2009.
Hughes, M., Jones, G. J., & O'Connor, N. E. (2009). Investigation of Image Models for Landmark Classification. In 2009 Fourth International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization (pp. 50–55).
Jones, C. B., Abdelmoty, A. I., Smart, P. D., Hall, M. M., Quinn, J., & Twaroch, F. A. (2009). Automated Image Captioning: The TRIPOD project. In Workshop on Geographic Information on the Internet (pp. 85-86).
Kanoulas, A.; Aslam, J. (2009) Empirical Justification of the Gain and Discount Function for nDCG, CIKM’09, November 2–6, 2009, Hong Kong, China
Matyas C., Schlieder C. (2009), A spatial user similarity measure for geographic recommender systems, in the proceedings of the Third International Conference on GeoSpatial Semantics, page 122-139, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
Minelli, S. (2009) Creation, Circulation and Use of Photographic Images: The Issues Surrounding Orphan Works and their Educational Implications. Photographies, Volume 2 Issue 2, 215. September 2009.
Paramita, M., Tang, J., & Sanderson, M. (2009). Generic and spatial approaches to image search results diversification. Advances in Information Retrieval, 603–610.
Quinn, J., Smart, P., and Jones, C. (2009): 3D city registration and enrichment, in Proceedings of ISPRS COST Workshop on Quality, Scale and Analysis Aspects of City Models, Lund, Sweden, 3rd - 4th December 2009
Schlieder, C., and Matyas, C. (2009 to appear). Photographing a City: An Analysis of Place Concepts Based on Spatial Choices. In: Computational Models of Place, Special Issue ofSpatial Cognition and Computation: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
Straumann, R. K., & Korup, O. (2009). Quantifying postglacial sediment storage at the mountain-belt scale. Geology, 37(12), 1079-1082.
Tomko, M., Trautwein, F., & Purves, R. (2009). Identification of Practically Visible Spatial Objects in Natural Environments. In M. Sester, L. Bernard & V. Paelke (Eds.), Advances in GIScience (pp. 1 - 23). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
Tomko, M., & Purves, R. (2009). Venice, City of Canals: Characterizing Regions through Content Classification. Transactions in GIS, 13(3), 295-314.
Twaroch, F.A.,Purves, R.S., and Jones, C.B.(2009) Stability of Qualitative Spatial Relations between Vernacular Regions Mined from Web Data, Workshop on Geographic Information on the Internet, Toulouse , France, 2009.
Twaroch, F. A., Jones, C. B., & Davies, C. (2009). Representation of Place for Geographical Information Retrieval. In Workshop on Geographic Information on the Internet (pp. 83-84).
Twaroch, F. A., Jones, C. B., & Abdelmoty, A. I. (2009).Acquisition of Vernacular Place Names from Web Sources. Weaving Services and People on the World Wide Web, 195–214.
Posters at conferences
Gornostay T. and Skadina I. (2009) English-Latvian Toponym Processing: Translation Strategies and Linguistic Patterns. In: Proceedings of the 13th Annual European Association for Machine Translation Conference, May 14-15, Barcelona, Spain, 81-87.
Gornostay T. and Skadina I. (2009) Pattern-based English-Latvian Toponym Translation. In: Proceedings of the 17th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics NODALIDA, May 14-16, Odense, Denmark, NEALT Proceedings Series, Vol. 4 (2009), 41-47.
2008
Aker, A.; Gaizauskas, R., Evaluating automatically generated user-focused multi-document summaries for geo-referenced images, The 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Coling 2008, Manchester, 18-22 August 2008
Barker E., Purves R. S., A Caption Annotation Scheme for Georeferencing Images, 5th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval held in conjunction with CIKM 2008, Napa Valley, USA 2008
Brunner T. J., Purves, R. S.,Spatial Autocorrelation and Toponym Ambiguity, 5th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval held in conjunction with CIKM 2008, Napa Valley, USA.
De Boer, A., Dias, E., Verbree, E. Processing 3D Geo-Information for Augmenting Georeferenced and Oriented Photographs with Text Labels, Conference Spatial Data Handling, Montpellier, France 2008
Deksne D., Skadiņš R., Skadiņa, I., Dictionary of Multiword Expressions for Translation into highly Inflected Languages. In: Proceedings of the Sixth International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’08),2008, Marrakech, Morocco
Dykes, J.; Purves, R.; Edwardes, A.J.; Wood, J., Exploiting Volunteered Geographic Information to describe Place: Visualization of the ‘Geograph British Isles’ Collection, GISRUK 2008 was hosted by UNIGIS UK at the Manchester Metropolitan University from 2-4 April 2008
Edwardes, A. J. & Purves, R. S. Knowledge acquisition for geographic image search, GIScience 2008 – Fifth International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Salt Lake City, Utah
Hall, M.M., Jones, C.B., A Field Based Representation for Vague Areas Defined by Spatial Prepositions, Methodologies and Resources for Processing Spatial Language,, Workshop at LREC’2008, Marrakesh, Morroco 2008, in press
Hall, M. M., Jones, C.B. Evaluating Field Crisping Methods for Representing Spatial Prepositions, 5th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, Napa Valley, California, USA p. 9-10, 2008
Hall, M.M., Jones, C.B. Quantifying Spatial Prepositions: an Experimental Study, ACM-GIS, Irvine, California, USA, p. 451-454, 2008
Hughes, M and Jones, G.J.F., Analysing Image-Text Relations for Semantic Media Adaptation. VGV08 - Irish Graduate Student Symposium on Vision, Graphics and Visualisation, Dublin, Ireland, 5 June 2008.
Hughes, M., Determining Spatial Classification Models for Automated Landmark Identification. K-Space Jamboree Workshop, Paris, France, 25 July 2008.
Hughes, M., A Social Framework for the Organisation and Automated Annotation of Personal Photo Collections. SMAP 2008 - Doctoral Consortium, 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization, Prague, Czech Republic, 15-16 December 2008.
Minelli, S.H. Creative Content Online: Multi Territory Rights Licensing, the European Commission Regulatory Consultation, and the Orphan Work issues IPR SOLUTIONS International Conference on Intellectual Property Rights and Metadata The Intercontinental Malta, St George’s Bay, St Julian’s, MALTA, STJ 02 2008
Pasley,R, Clough, P, Purves, R. and Twaroch, F. Mapping Geographic Coverage of the Web, ACM-GIS, Irvine, California, USA, p. 154-162, 2008
Purves, R.; Edwardes, A.; Sanderson, M., Describing the where - improving image annotation and search through geography , in the proceedings of the workshop on Metadata Mining for Image Understanding MMIU 2008
Purves, R.; Edwardes, A.J., Exploiting Volunteered Geographic Information to describe Place, GISRUK 2008 was hosted by UNIGIS UK at the Manchester Metropolitan University from 2-4 April 2008
Schlieder C., Matyas C., Photographing a City: An Analysis of Place Concepts Based on Spatial Choices, Proceedings of International workshop on computational models of place: PLACE’08, held in conjunction with GIScience 08, Park City, Utah, USA, pp. 59-73, 2008
Schockaert, S., Smart, P.D., Abdelmoty, A.I., Jones, C.B., Mining Topological Relations from the Web, Third International Workshop on Flexible Database and Information System Technology – workshop at DEXA, Turin, Italy, p. 652-656, 2008
Schockaert, S., Smart, P.D., Evolutionary Strategies for Expressive Spatial Reasoning, Proceedings of the Workshop on Soft Methods for Statistical and Fuzzy Spatial Information processing, workshop at SMPS 2008, Toulouse, France, p. 26-39, 2008
Straumann R.K., Purves, R. P., Delineation of Valleys and Valley Floors, in Cova T., Miller H., Beard K., Frank A., Goodchild M.,Geographic Information Science. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference, GIScience 2008, Park City, Utah, LNCS 5266, p. 320-336, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Tang J., Arni T., Sanderson M., Clough P., Building a Diversity Featured Search System by Fusing Existing Tools, 2008
Tomko, M.; Purves, R. S., Categorical Prominence and the Characteristic Description of Regions . Proceedings of Semantic Web meets Geospatial Applications, held in conjunction with AGILE 2008, Girona, Spain.
Tomko, M., & Purves, R. Characterizing Regions through Content Classification. GIScience 2008 - Fifth International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Park City, Utah, USA.
Twaroch, F.A., Jones, C., Abdelmoty, A. Acquisition of a Vernacular Gazetteer from Web Sources, LocWeb 2008, vol. 300, Beijing, China, ACM, pp. 61-64, 2008
Twaroch, F.A. Smart, P.D., Jones, C.B. Mining the Web to Detect Place Names, 5th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, Napa Valley, California, USA p. 43-44, 2008
2007
Abdelmoty, A. I.; Smart, P. D. & Jones, C. B., Building Place Ontologies for the Semantic Web: Issues and Approaches GIR Conference 2007. Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, 6th-9th November 2007
A. Al-Maskari, M. Sanderson, P.D. Clough, The Relationship between IR Effectiveness Measures and Users’ Satisfaction, to appear in the Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR Conference, 2007
E. S. Dias, A. J. Edwardes, R. S. Purves, Geo-Temporal Analysis of Uncertain Location Data for Protected Areas Management. 5th International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality 13-15 June 2007, (ITC, Enschede, The Netherlands), Proceedings in press, 2007
Edwardes, A.J. and Purves, R.S., A theoretical grounding for semantic descriptions of place, Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems. Cardiff, UK. In Proceedings of 7th Intl. Ware M. and Taylor, G. (Eds), Springer LNCS 4857, pp.106-121. 9th November, 2007
Edwardes, A.J and Purves, R.S., Eliciting Concepts of Place for Text-based Image Retrieval, In Proceedings of Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR). Purves R.S and Jones, C. (Eds), ACM Press, pp.15-17. 23rd-27th July 2007
Fred Flagg, Photographs with Geo-referencing and Organization: an annotated bibliography, Technical Report I, 2007
F. Gey, R. Larson, M. Sanderson, K. Bischoff, T. Mandl, C. Womser-Hacker, D. Santos, P. Rocha, A. Montoyo, Challenges to Evaluation of Multilingual Geographic Information Retrieval in GeoCLEF, in the proceedings of the 1st EVIA workshop, held at the NTCIR meeting, 2007
Hughes, M.; Salway, A.; Jones, G. ; O'Connor, N., Analysing Image-Text Relations for Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalisation, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization, 2007
Joho & Sanderson, Document frequency and term specificity. RIAO, Pittsburgh. 23rd May 2007
M. Sanderson, Spatial Retrieval Algorithms, Chapter in the Encyclopedia of Geographical Information Science, 2007, Springer
M. Sanderson, I. Soboroff, Problems with Kendall’s Tau, to appear in the Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR Conference, 2007
C. Schlieder (Under review), Modelling Collaborative Semantics with a Geographic Recommender. 15th May 2007
van Zwol, R., Rüger, S., Sanderson, M., & Mass, Y. (2007). Multimedia information retrieval: new challenges in audio visual search. In ACM SIGIR Forum (Vol. 41, pp. 77–82).
