Keynote

Prof. Dr. Ross Purves

University of Zurich (Switzerland)

Short Bio: Ross Purves teaches and researches at the Department of Geography of the University of Zurich. He is particularly interested in novel ways of extracting, analysing and reasoning with geographic information in ways which consider uncertainty, vagueness and diversity, often using unstructured text. Much of his work has addressed issues related to landscape and the environment.

Title: Extracting Geographic Information from Text: Blind alleys and missing questions

Abstract : In my talk I will argue that Geographic Information Extraction can make important contributions to a wide range of societally important questions. I’ll give some examples of what sorts of questions I think these might be, and propose that addressing them effectively means spending more time on thinking about questions and working in an interdisciplinary context, and less optimising algorithms for specific case studies.