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Spatially-Aware

Information Retrieval

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Publications & Reports

This page contains details of selected publications and presentations produced in the course of the SPIRIT project (sorted by year and alphabetically). Also included a list of publications that resulted from, produced in collaboration with or influenced by SPIRIT (see "Related Publications").

The SPIRIT public reports (deliverables) can be accessed here.

2002 2003 2004 2005

Selected Presentations

Related Publications

2002:

C.B. Jones et al (2002). "Spatial Information Retrieval and Geographical Ontologies: An Overview of the SPIRIT project". In: 'SIGIR 2002: Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval August 11-15, 2002, Tampere, Finland', ACM Press, pp.387 - 388. (PDF - 18KB)

2003:

F. Heinzle, M. Kopczynski, M. Sester(2003). "Spatial Data Interpretation for the Intelligent Access to Spatial Information in the Internet". In: 'Proceedings of 21st International Cartographic Conference', August 10-16, 2003, Durban, South Africa. (PDF - 284KB)

H. Joho, M. Sanderson (2003). Sheffield and Terabyte-Scale Test Collections. In: 'Proceedings of the Workshop on Defining Evaluation Methodologies for Terabyte-Scale Collections'. (PDF - 69KB)

C.B.Jones, A.I.Abdelmoty, G.Fu (2003). "Maintaining Ontologies for Geographical Information Retrieval on the Web". In: 'Proceedings of OTM Confederated International Conferences CoopIS, DOA, and OOBASE', pp. 934-951.(PDF - 335KB)

M. van Kreveld and I. Reinbacher (2003). "Good NEWS: Partitioning a Simple Polygon by Compass Directions". In: 'Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry (SCG 2003): Proceedings of the nineteenth conference on Computational geometry June 08 - 10, 2003 , San Diego, California, USA", ACM Press, pp. 78 - 87. (PDF - 321KB)

S. Levin, P. Clough, M. Sanderson (2003). "Assessing the effectiveness of pen-based input queries". In: 'Annual ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR 2003): Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval Toronto, Canada', ACM Press, pp. 437 - 438. (PDF - 150KB)

M.A. Windhouwer and R. van Zwol (2003). "Combining concept- with content-based retrieval". In: 'Intelligent search on XML' (pp. - tbc), Dagstuhl, Germany. Springer. 2003 ISBN:... .- to appear. (PDF - 360KB)

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2004:

A. I. Abdelmoty, B. A. El-Geresy (2004). "Schema Visualisation using a Metadata Approach for GIS". - In: 'Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 12th Annual Conference', Norwich, UK, pp. 160-162. (PDF - 99KB)

A.Arampatzis, M. van Kreveld, I. Reinsbacher and other SPIRIT researchers (2004). "Web-Based Delineation of Imprecise Regions". In: the Proceedings of Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, SIGIR, 2004. (PDF - 23KB)

S. Balley, N. Gesbert (2004). “Describing and Customising the Content of Geographical Data sets: Approaches based on Data Schemas” . - paper presentation - EuroSDR, Marne La Vallée France.

D. Burghardt, R. S. Purves and A. Edwardes (2004). "Techniques for on the-fly generalisation of thematic point data using hierarchical data structures". In: 'Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 12th Annual Conference', Norwich, UK. (to be added)

P. Clough, M. Sanderson (2004). "A proposal for Comparative Evaluation of Automatic Annotations for Geo-Referenced Documents". - Workshop. In:the Proceedings of Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, SIGIR, 2004

F.Heinzle, M. Sester (2004). "Derivation of Implicit Information from Spatial Data Sets with Data Mining". In: 'XXth Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)', Istanbul, Turkey. (PDF - 343KB)

M. Kopczynski (2004). "Localisation with Sketch Based Input". - In: '2nd Symposium on Location Based Services & Telecartography', Vienna, Austria. (PDF - 320KB)

M. Kopczynski, M. Sester (2004). "Representation of Sketch Data for Localisation in Large Data Sets". In: 'XXth Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)', Istanbul, Turkey. (PDF - 295KB)

M. van Kreveld, I. Reinbacher, A. Arampatzis, R. van Zwol (2004). “Distributed Ranking Methods for Geographic Information Retrieval”. GEIN Journal. (PDF - 332KB)

R. Purves, C.B. Jones (eds.) (2004). "Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval at SIGIR" - workshop book of abstracts, GIR Workshop at ACM SIGIR 2004, Sheffield, UK. - see http://www.geo.unizh.ch/~rsp/gir/ for more information.

I. Reinbacher (2004). “Ranking in SPIRIT”. - EuroCG Workshop, Sevilla, Spain.

M. Sanderson and H. Joho (2004). "Forming Test Collections with No System Pooling". In: 'Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval', ACM, Sheffield, UK. (PDF - 75KB)

A.K. Syed (2004). “Geovisual Representations for Spatially-aware Information Retrieval” - abstract - presented at ESF meeting on visualisation, March 2004.

M. Sester, F. Heinzle (2004). "Suchmaschinen mit räumlichem Bewusstsein". In: 'Symposium Praktische Kartographie', Königslutter, Germany. (PDF - 298KB)

P. D. Smart, A. I. Abdelmoty ,C. B. Jones (2004). "An Evaluation of Geo-Ontology Representation Languages for Supporting Web Retrieval of Geographic Information". - In: 'Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 12th Annual Conference', Norwich, UK, pp. 175-178. (PDF - 39KB)

B.S. Yang, R. S. Purves and R. Weibel (2004). "Implementation of Progressive Transmission Algorithms for Vector Map Data in Web-based Visualization". In : 'XXth Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)', Istanbul, Turkey. (PDF - 483KB)

C.B. Jones, A.I. Abdelmoty, D. Finch, G. Fu, S. Vaid (2004). "The SPIRIT Spatial Search Engine: Architecture, Ontologies and Spatial Indexing". - In: "Geographic Information Science: Third International Conference, Gi Science 2004 Adelphi, Md, Usa, October 20-23, 2004 Proceedings", pp. 125 - 139. (PDF - 204KB)

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2005:

A.I. Abdelmoty, P.D. Smart, C.B. Jones, G. Fu and D. Finch (2005). "A Critical Evaluation of Ontology Languages for Geographical Information Retrieval" - to appear in: Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 2005.

F. Fu, C.B. Jones, A.I. Abdelmoty (2005). "Bulding a Geographical Ontology for Intelligent Spatial Search on the Web". In: Proceedings of IASTED International Conference on Databases and Applications (DBA2005).(PDF - 99KB)

F. Fu, C.B. Jones, A.I. Abdelmoty (2005)."Ontology-based Spatial Query Expansion in Information Retrieval". submitted for publication (ODBASE 2005). (PDF - 480KB)

M. van Kreveld, I. Reinbacher, et.al. (2005). A new version of the “Web-Based Delineation of Imprecise Regions” paper with more emphasis on the algorithmic parts accepted for presentation (March 2005). In: The European workshop on Computational Geometry.(to be added)

R. Purves, P. Clough and H. Joho (2005). “Identifying imprecise regions for geographic information retrieval using the web” - GISRUK 2005, Glasgow.(to be added)

S. Vaid, C. B. Jones, H. Joho and M. Sanderson (2005). "Spatio-Textual Indexing for Geographical Search on the Web". To appear in: Proceedings of 9th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases. (PDF - 202KB)

Publications due to appear in 2005:

B. Bucher, P. Clough, R. Purves, A.K. Syed (2005). “Geographic IR system: requirements and evaluation” - article - to appear - International Cartographic Conference, ICC 2005, July 2005, La Coruna, Spain.

F. Heinzle (2005). “Graph Based Approach for Recognition of Patterns and Implicit Information in Road Networks” - abstract. Accepted at presentation at International Cartographic Conference, ICC 2005, La Coruna, Spain.

M. Kopczynski, M. Sester (2005). “Graph Based Methods for Localisation by a Sketch” - accepted conference paper - International Cartographic Conference, ICC 2005, July 2005, La Coruna, Spain.

R. Purves, A. K. Syed, B. Yang and R. Weibel (2005). “A cartographic visualisation interface for spatial information retrieval” - conference presentation - International Cartographic Conference, ICC 2005, July 2005, La Coruna, Spain.

I. Reinbacher, M. Benhert, M, van Kreveld, J. Mitchell, A. Wolf (2005). “Web-based Delineation of Imprecise Regions” - conference presentation – 13th European Symposium on Algorithms, Mallorca, Spain.

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SELECTED PRESENTATIONS:

(arranged in alphabetical order)

F. Heinzle (2003). "SPIRIT and the Semantic Web" - ICG, Hannover, Germany.

F. Heinzle (2004)."Datenakquisition bzw. Sichtbarmachung von Geo-Daten für eine Suchmaschine" - GIN-Forum: Geodatendienste im Internet, Hannover, Germany. (PDF - 419KB)

M. Kopczynski (2003). "Lokalisierung durch skizzenbasierte Eingabe" - AGA'2003 conference at the Thuringian National Mapping Agency, Erfurt, Germany. (PDF - 536KB)

M. Kopczynski (2004). "Localisation with Sketch Based Input" - 2nd Symposium on Location Based Services & Telecartography, Vienna, Austria. (presentation - PDF - 633KB; article - see here)

M. van Kreveld (2004). "Distributed Ranking in SPIRIT" - presentation at University of Karlsruhe.

M. Sanderson (2003). "Word sense disambiguation revisited" - lecture in University of Brighton, UK. (zip - 617KB)

M. Sanderson (2004). "SPIRIT Project" - presentation at the the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University, Canberra.

M. Sanderson (2005). “SPIRIT: geographic information retrieval” - invited talk at Microsoft Research Lab, Beijing, China.

M. Sester (2003) "Automatische Interpretation von Geodaten - das EU-Projekt SPIRIT" - AGA'2002 conference at the Bavarian National Mapping Agency, Munich, Germany.

R. van Zwol (2003). "Relevance Ranking in a Nutshell" - GIVE colloquium, Utrecht, the Netherlands.

R. van Zwol (2003). "Relevance Ranking in a Nutshell" – INSPIRE thematic day, Utrecht, the Netherlands.

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RELATED PUBLICATIONS:

The following publications resulted from, produced in collaboration with or influenced by SPIRIT:

C. Gurrin and A. Smeaton (2003). "Improving the Evaluation of Web Search Systems" - (European Conference on Information Retrieval, Pisa, Italy, April 2003) in: Springer-Verlag 2003, LNCS series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 2633, Jan 2003, Pages 25 - 40.

F. Cacheda, V. Plachouras,I. Ounis (2004). "Performance Analysis of Distributed Architectures to Index One Terabyte of Text" - (26th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2004), Sunderland, UK, April 5-7 2004.) in: Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 2997, Jan 2004, Pages 394 - 408.

F. Cacheda, V. Plachouras,I. Ounis (2005). "A case study of distributed information retrieval architectures to index one terabyte of text" - in: Information Processing and Management Journal (IPM), Volume: 41, Issue: 5, September 2005 pp 1141-1161 Elsevier Science.

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