Simon Overell's Publications

My PhD topic was Geographic Information Retrieval. I've written papers on Geographic Disambiguation and Modelling, Patents on Classification and Accurate NLP at Scale and given talks on Extracting Data from Wikipedia and the Web. For abstracts and citation details on all my publications click the boxes below.

Theses

PhD Thesis. Geographic Information Retrieval: Classification, Disambiguation and Modelling. (Imperial College London, 2009)

Master’s Thesis. TRIDE: Implementation of a Teleo-Reactive Integrated Development Environment. (Imperial College London, 2005)

Journal Articles

View of the world according to Wikipedia: Are we all little Steinbergs? (JOCS, 2011)

Using co-occurrence models for placename disambiguation. (IJGIS, 2008)

Conference & Workshop Papers

Classifying Tags using Open Content Resources. (WSDM, 2009, Barcelona)

Geographic Co-occurrence as a Tool for GIR. (GIR @ CIKM, 2007, Lisbon)
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Invited Talks

I've given 9 invited talks covering my PhD, research at Yahoo! and work at True Knowledge.

Invited Articles

The Problem of Place Name Ambiguity (The SIGSPATIAL Special, 2011)

Are we getting it right? The results of the Student Survey (Informer, Spring 2008)

Patents

I've written a various patents all broadly related to classification. Four have been granted with previous employers and two are pending with Spider.io.

Evaluation Conference Papers

A key part of Information Retrieval is evaluation. Due to the efforts of the TREC and CLEF conferences there are now a series of standardised data sets for these evaluations. I've taken part in three CLEF conferences and one TREC conference, publishing 10 papers.

Posters

Distribution of Location References in Wikipedia (The Future of Multimedia Knowledge Management 2008, Milton Keynes)

SIRIL: A multidimensional browsing framework (MMKM Workshop 2007, Milton Keynes)

Citations

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