Yr Athro Christopher Jones

2026

• Fernando, A. et al., 2026. Georeferencing complex relative locality descriptions with large language models. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 40 (9), pp.2980-3012. (10.1080/13658816.2026.2613291)
• Mozhdehi, M. H. et al., 2026. Habitat inference from biodiversity field notes. Presented at: KDD '26: The 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Jeju Island, Republic of Korea 9-13 August 2026. Published in: Kim, W. , Lee, J. and Shim, K. eds. KDD '26: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. [Habitat Inference from Biodiversity Field Notes]. ACM. , pp.11038-11049. (10.1145/3770855.3818941)
• Olsen, A. S. et al. 2026. Computer vision for infectious disease surveillance; Saprolegnia spp. in salmonids. Ecological Informatics 93 103567. (10.1016/j.ecoinf.2025.103567)
• Wijegunarathna, K. , Stock, K. and Jones, C. B. 2026. Omni geometry representation learning versus large language models for Geospatial Entity Resolution. Transactions in GIS 30 (1) e70199. (10.1111/tgis.70199)
• Wijegunarathna, K. I. , Stock, K. and Jones, C. B. 2026. Digital gazetteers: Review and prospects for place name knowledge bases. ACM Computing Surveys 58 (3) 69. (10.1145/3763231)

2025

• Edwards, T. , Corcoran, P. and Jones, C. B. 2025. A hybrid approach for geo-referencing tweets: transformer language model regression and gazetteer disambiguation. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 14 (9) 321. (10.3390/ijgi14090321)
• Wijegunarathna, K. , Stock, K. and Jones, C. B. 2025. Large multi-modal model cartographic map comprehension for textual locality georeferencing. Presented at: 13th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2025) Christchurch, New Zealand 26-29 August 2025. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs). Vol. 346.Vol. 12. Leibniz: Schloss Dagstuhl. , pp.1-19. (10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2025.12)

2024

• Jones, C. B. , Stock, K. and Perkins, S. E. 2024. AI-based discovery of habitats from museum collections. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 39 (4), pp.323-327. (10.1016/j.tree.2024.01.006)

2023

• Sinha, S. et al., 2023. Sarcasm detection in product reviews using textual entailment approach. Presented at: 7th International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Information Seoul, South Korea 15-17 December 2023. NLPIR '23: Proceedings of the 2023 7th International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. Association for Computing Machinery. , pp.310-318. (10.1145/3639233.3639252)
• Stock, K. et al., 2023. The BioWhere Project: unlocking the potential of biological collections data. GI_Forum 11 (1), pp.3-21. (10.1553/giscience2023_01_s3)
• Aflaki, N. et al., 2023. An empirical study of the semantic similarity of geospatial prepositions and their senses. Spatial Cognition & Computation 23 (2), pp.132-176. (10.1080/13875868.2022.2111683)
• Corcoran, P. and Jones, C. 2023. Topological data analysis for geographical information science using persistent homology. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 37 (3), pp.712-745. (10.1080/13658816.2022.2155654)

2022

• Radke, M. A. et al., 2022. Disambiguating spatial prepositions: The case of geo-spatial sense detection. Transactions in GIS 26 (6), pp.2621-2650. (10.1111/tgis.12976)
• Liao, R. et al., 2022. Predicting distance and direction from text locality descriptions for biological specimen collections. Presented at: 15th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2022) Kobe, Japan 5-9 September, 2022. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics. Vol. 240.International Conference on Spatial Information Theory Vol. 4. Liebniz, Germany: Dagstuhl Publishing. , pp.1-15. (10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2022.4)
• Edwards, T. , Jones, C. B. and Corcoran, P. 2022. Identifying wildlife observations on twitter. Ecological Informatics 67 101500. (10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101500)
• Stock, K. et al., 2022. Detecting geospatial location descriptions in natural language text. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 36 (3), pp.547-584. (10.1080/13658816.2021.1987441)
• Corcoran, P. and Jones, C. 2022. A persistent homology model of street network connectivity. Transactions in GIS 21 (1), pp.155-181. (10.1111/tgis.12844)
• Hall, M. M. and Jones, C. B. 2022. Generating geographical location descriptions with spatial templates: a salient toponym driven approach. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 36 (1), pp.55-85. (10.1080/13658816.2021.1913498)
• Stock, K. , Jones, C. B. and Tenbrink, T. 2022. Speaking of location: a review of spatial language research. Spatial Cognition & Computation 22 (3-4), pp.185-224. (10.1080/13875868.2022.2095275)

2021

• Edwards, T. et al. 2021. Passive citizen science: The role of social media in wildlife observations. PLoS ONE 16 (8) e0255416. (10.1371/journal.pone.0255416)

2020

• Jeawak, S. S. , Jones, C. B. and Schockaert, S. 2020. Predicting the environment from social media: a collective classification approach. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 82 (10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2020.101487)
• Jeawak, S. , Jones, C. and Schockaert, S. 2020. Predicting environmental features by learning spatiotemporal embeddings from social media. Ecological Informatics 55 101031. (10.1016/j.ecoinf.2019.101031)

2019

• Pezzica, C. et al. 2019. Between images and built form: automating the recognition of standardised building components using deep learning. Presented at: 27th CIPA International Symposium “Documenting the past for a better future” Avila, Spain 1-5 September 2019. Vol. 4.Vol. 2/W6. Copernicus. , pp.123-132. (10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-2-W6-123-2019)
• Jeawak, S. , Jones, C. and Schockaert, S. 2019. Embedding geographic locations for modelling the natural environment using Flickr tags and structured data. Presented at: ECIR 2019: 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval Cologne, Germany 14-18 April 2019. Published in: Azzopardi, L. et al., Advances in Information Retrieval: 41st European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2019, Cologne, Germany, April 14–18, 2019, Proceedings, Part I. Vol. 1.Springer. , pp.51-66. (10.1007/978-3-030-15712-8_4)

2018

• Twaroch, F. A. et al., 2018. Investigating behavioural and computational approaches for defining imprecise regions. Spatial Cognition & Computation (10.1080/13875868.2018.1531871)
• Prizeman, O. et al. 2018. How can century-old architectural hierarchies for the design of public libraries be re-interpreted and re-used?. Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development 8 (4), pp.481-494. (10.1108/JCHMSD-08-2017-0051)
• Corcoran, P. and Jones, C. 2018. Robust tracking of objects with dynamic topology. Presented at: ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems Seattle, Washington, USA 6-9 November 2018. ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. ACM. , pp.428-431. (10.1145/3274895.3274922)
• Jeawak, S. , Jones, C. and Schockaert, S. 2018. Mapping wildlife species distribution with social media: Augmenting text classification with species names. Presented at: GIScience 2018: 10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science Melbourne, Australia 28-31 August 2018. Published in: Winter, S. , Griffin, A. and Sester, M. eds. 10th International Conference of Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2018). Vol. 114.Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) Dagstuhl, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl/Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik. , pp.34:1-34:6. (10.4230/LIPIcs.GISCIENCE.2018.34)
• Corcoran, P. and Jones, C. B. 2018. Stability and statistical inferences in the space of topological spatial relationships. IEEE Access 6 , pp.18907-18919. (10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2817493)
• Purves, R. S. et al., 2018. Geographic information retrieval: progress and challenges in spatial search of text. Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval 12 (2-3), pp.164-318. (10.1561/1500000034)

2017

• Corcoran, P. and Jones, C. B. 2017. Modelling topological features of swarm behaviour in space and time with persistence landscapes. IEEE Access 5 , pp.18534-18544. (10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2749319)
• Jeawak, S. , Jones, C. B. and Schockaert, S. 2017. Using Flickr for characterizing the environment: an exploratory analysis. Presented at: 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT) L’Aquila, Italy 4-8 September 2017. 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics. , pp.21:1-21:13. (10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2017.21)

2016

• Corcoran, P. and Jones, C. B. 2016. Spatio-temporal modeling of the topology of swarm behavior with persistence landscapes. Presented at: ACM - SIGSPATIAL 2016 Burlingame, CA, USA 31 October - 3 November 2016. GIS '16 Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. New York, NY.: ACM(10.1145/2996913.2996949)

2015

• Spasic, I. et al. 2015. KneeTex: An ontology-driven system for information extraction from MRI reports. Journal of Biomedical Semantics 6 34. (10.1186/s13326-015-0033-1)
• Hall, M. M. , Jones, C. and Smart, P. 2015. Spatial natural language generation for location description in photo captions. Presented at: Conference on Spatial Information Theory COSIT 2015 Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA 12-16 October 2015.
• Slade, J. D. , Jones, C. B. and Rosin, P. L. 2015. Automatic semantic and geometric enrichment of CityGML building models using HoG-based template matching. In: Abdul-Rahman, A. ed. Advances in 3D Geoinformation. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography Springer International Publishing. , pp.357-372. (10.1007/978-3-319-25691-7_20)
• Slade, J. D. , Jones, C. B. and Rosin, P. L. 2015. Semantic and geometric enrichment of 3D geo-spatial building models with photo captions and illustration labels using template matching & SIFT. Presented at: GIS Research UK (GISRUK) 2015 Leeds, UK 15-17 April 2015.

2014

• Van Laere, O. et al., 2014. Georeferencing Wikipedia documents using data from social media sources. ACM Transactions on Information Systems 32 (3) 12. (10.1145/2629685)
• Jones, C. B. , Rosin, P. L. and Slade, J. D. 2014. Semantic and geometric enrichment of 3D geo-spatial models with captioned photos and labelled illustrations. Presented at: Workshop on Vision and Language, 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Coling 2014, Dublin, Ireland 23 August 2014.
• Tanasescu, V. , Smart, P. D. and Jones, C. B. 2014. Reverse geocoding for photo captioning with a meta-gazetteer. Presented at: ACM-SIGSPATIAL 2014 Dallas, Texas, USA 4th November 2014. SIGSPATIAL '14 Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. , pp.509-512. (10.1145/2666310.2666492)

2013

• Cooper, C. et al. 2013. Exploring the ripple effect and spatial volatility in house prices in England and Wales: regressing interaction domain cross-correlations against reactive statistics. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 40 (5), pp.763-782. (10.1068/b37062)

2012

• Makki al-Azzawi, A. N. , Abdelmoty, A. and Jones, C. B. 2012. What can I do there? Towards the automatic discovery of place-related services and activities. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 26 (2), pp.345-364. (10.1080/13658816.2011.595954)
• Younis, E. E. G. et al., 2012. Hybrid geo-spatial query methods on the semantic web with a spatially-enhanced index of DBpedia. Presented at: GIScience 2012: 7th International Conference on Geographic Information Science Columbus, OH, USA 18-21 September 2012. Published in: Xiao, N. et al., Geographic Information Science: 7th International Conference, GIScience 2012, Columbus, OH, USA, September 18-21, 2012. Proceedings. Vol. 7478.Lecture Notes in Computer Science Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer. , pp.340-353. (10.1007/978-3-642-33024-7_25)

2011

• Smart, P. D. , Quinn, J. A. and Jones, C. B. 2011. City model enrichment. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 66 (2), pp.223-234. (10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2010.12.004)

2010

• Hall, M. , Smart, P. D. and Jones, C. B. 2010. Interpreting spatial language in image captions. Cognitive Processing 12 (1), pp.67-94. (10.1007/s10339-010-0385-5)
• Smart, P. D. , Jones, C. B. and Twaroch, F. A. 2010. Multi-source Toponym Data Integration and Mediation for a Meta-Gazetteer Service. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6292 , pp.234-248. (10.1007/978-3-642-15300-6_17)
• Makki al-Azzawi, A. N. , Abdelmoty, A. and Jones, C. B. 2010. An ontology of place and service types to facilitate place-affordance geographic information retrieval. Presented at: 6th ACM Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR'10) Zurich, Switzerland 18-19th February 2010. Published in: Purves, R. , Clough, P. and Jones, C. B. eds. GIR '10 Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, Zurich, Switzerland, 18-19 February 2010. New York, NY: ACM(10.1145/1722080.1722085)
• Twaroch, F. A. and Jones, C. B. 2010. A web platform for the evaluation of vernacular place names in automatically constructed gazetteers. Presented at: 6th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR'10) Zurich, Switzerland 18-19 February 2010. Published in: Purves, R. , Clough, P. and Jones, C. B. eds. GIR '10 Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, Zurich, Switzerland, 18-19 February 2010. New York: Association for Computing Machinery(10.1145/1722080.1722098)

2009

• Abdelmoty, A. et al. 2009. Supporting frameworks for the geospatial semantic web. Presented at: 11th international symposium, SSTD 2009 Aalborg, Denmark 8-10 July 2009. Published in: Mamoulis, N. et al., Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases: 11th International Symposium, SSTD 2009, Aalborg, Denmark, July 8-10, 2009. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag. , pp.355-372. (10.1007/978-3-642-02982-0_23)

2008

• Schockaert, S. et al. 2008. Mining topological relations from the Web. Presented at: 28th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications Turin, Italy 1-5 September 2008. Published in: Tjoa, A. M. and Wagner, R. R. eds. DEXA 2008: 19th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications : proceedings, 1-5 September, 2008, Turin, Italy. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society,. , pp.652-656. (10.1109/DEXA.2008.15)
• Twaroch, F. A. , Smart, P. D. and Jones, C. B. 2008. Mining the web to detect place names. Presented at: 2nd international workshop on Geographic information retrieval Napa Valley, CA, USA 29-30 October 2008. Published in: Jones, C. B. and Purves, R. eds. GIR '08 Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Geographic information retrieval. New York: ACM. , pp.43-44. (10.1145/1460007.1460017)
• Hall, M. and Jones, C. B. 2008. A field based representation for vague areas defined by spatial prepositions. Presented at: Methodologies and Resources for Processing Spatial Language Workshop at LREC’2008 Marrakech, Morocco 31 May 2008. , pp.36-41.
• Hall, M. and Jones, C. B. 2008. Evaluating field crisping methods for representing spatial prepositions. Presented at: ACM Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval Napa Valley, CA, USA 29-30 October 2008. Published in: Jones, C. B. and Purves, R. eds. Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval : 2008, Napa Valley, California, USA, October 29-30, 2008. New York, NY: ACM. , pp.9-10. (10.1145/1460007.1460019)
• Hall, M. and Jones, C. B. 2008. Quantifying spatial prepositions. Presented at: 16th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems Irvine, CA, USA 5-7 November 2008. GIS '08 Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL international conference on Advances in geographic information systems, Irvine, CA, 5-7 November 2008. New York, NY: ACM(10.1145/1463434.1463507)
• Jones, C. B. et al. 2008. Modelling vague places with knowledge from the Web. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 22 (10), pp.1045-1065. (10.1080/13658810701850547)
• Jones, C. B. and Purves, R. S. 2008. Geographical information retrieval. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 22 (3), pp.219-228. (10.1080/13658810701626343)

2007

• Jones, C. B. et al. 2007. The Design and Implementation of SPIRIT: a Spatially-Aware Search Engine for Information Retrieval on the Internet. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 21 (7), pp.717-745. (10.1080/13658810601169840)
• Abdelmoty, A. , Smart, P. D. and Jones, C. B. 2007. Building place ontologies for the semantic web: Issues and approaches. Presented at: GIR 2007 4th ACM Workshop On Geographic Information Retrieval Lisbon, Portugal 9 November 2007. GIR '07 Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Geographical information retrieval. New York, NY: ACM. , pp.7-12. (10.1145/1316948.1316951)
• Alazzawi, A. N. , Abdelmoty, A. and Jones, C. B. 2007. Spatio-temporal Personalised Web Search. Presented at: GISRUK 15th Annual Conference 2007 Maynooth, Ireland 11-13 April 2007. Published in: Winstanley, A. C. ed. GISRUK 2007: Proceedings of the Geographical Information Science Research UK Conference. Maynooth, Ireland: National University of Ireland. , pp.457-459.
• Smart, P. D. et al., 2007. A framework for combining rules and geo-ontologies. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4524 , pp.133-147. (10.1007/978-3-540-72982-2_10)

2006

• Jones, C. B. et al. 2006. Web-Based Delineation of Imprecise Regions. Computers Environment and Urban Systems 30 (4), pp.436-459. (10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2005.08.001)
• Jones, C. B. and Purves, R. 2006. GIR’05-2005 ACM Workshop on Geographical Information Retrieval. Sigir Forum 40 (1), pp.34-37.
• Leblanc, M. J. et al., 2006. Evidence for Megalake Chad, north-central Africa, during the late Quaternary from satellite data. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 230 (3-4), pp.230-242. (10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.07.016)
• Smart, P. , Abdelmoty, A. and Jones, C. 2006. A visual editor for validating Geo-Ontologies in OWL. Presented at: GISRUK 2006: 14th Annual GIS Research UK Conference Nottingam , UK 5-7 April 2006. Published in: Priestnall, G. and Aplin, P. eds. Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 14th Annual Conference. , pp.222-226.

2005

• Vaid, S. et al., 2005. Spatio-Textual Indexing for Geographical Search on the Web. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3633 , pp.218-235. (10.1007/11535331_13)
• Fu, G. , Jones, C. B. and Abdelmoty, A. 2005. Building a geographical ontology for intelligent spatial search on the web. Presented at: The IASTED International Conference on Databases and Applications - DBA 2005 Innsbruck, Austria 14-16 February 2005. Published in: Hamza, M. H. ed. Proceedings of IASTED International Conference on Databases and Applications. Anaheim, CA: ACTA Press. , pp.167-172.
• Fu, G. , Jones, C. B. and Abdelmoty, A. 2005. Ontology-based spatial query expansion in information retrieval. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3761 , pp.1466-1482. (10.1007/11575801_33)
• Jones, C. B. and Mark Ware, J. 2005. Map generalization in the Web age. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 19 (8-9), pp.859-870. (10.1080/13658810500161104)
• Zhou, S. and Jones, C. 2005. Shape-aware line generalisation with weighted effective area. Presented at: 11th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling Leicester, UK 23 - 25 August 2004. Published in: Fisher, P. F. ed. Developments in Spatial Data Handling. Berlin: Springer. , pp.369-380. (10.1007/3-540-26772-7_28)
• Zhou, S. and Jones, C. B. 2005. HCPO: an efficient insertion order for incremental Delaunay triangulation. Information Processing Letters 93 (1), pp.37-42. (10.1016/j.ipl.2004.09.020)

2004

• Morris, A. J. et al., 2004. A filter flow visual querying language and interface for spatial databases. GeoInformatica 8 (2), pp.107-141. (10.1023/B:GEIN.0000017744.85002.4c)
• Jones, C. B. et al. 2004. The SPIRIT spatial search engine: Architecture, ontologies and spatial indexing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3234 , pp.125-139. (10.1007/978-3-540-30231-5_9)
• Smart, P. D. , Abdelmoty, A. and Jones, C. B. 2004. An evaluation of geo-ontology representation languages for supporting web retrieval of geographical information. Presented at: GIS Research UK 12th annual conference (GISRUK 2004) Norwich, UK 28th-30th April 2004.

2002

• Jones, C. B. et al. 2002. Spatial information retrieval and geographical ontologies an overview of the SPIRIT project. Presented at: SIGIR 2002: 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval Tampere, Finland 11-15 August 2002. Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval. New York, NY: ACM. , pp.387-388. (10.1145/564376.564457)
• Ware, J. M. et al., 2002. A tabu search approach to automated map generalisation. Presented at: 10th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems McLean, VA, USA 8-9 November 2002. Proceedings of the 10th ACM international symposium on Advances in geographic information systems. New York, NY: ACM. , pp.101-106. (10.1145/585147.585169)

2001

• Zhou, S. and Jones, C. B. 2001. Design and Implementation of Multi-Scale Databases. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2121 , pp.1611-3349.
• Alani, H. , Jones, C. B. and Tudhope, D. 2001. Voronoi-based region approximation for geographical information retrieval with gazetteers. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 15 (4), pp.287-306. (10.1080/13658810110038942)
• Herbert, M. J. and Jones, C. B. 2001. Contour correspondence for serial section reconstruction: complex scenarios in palaeontology. Computers & Geosciences 27 (4), pp.427-440. (10.1016/S0098-3004(00)00076-5)

2000

• El-Geresy, B. A. , Abdelmoty, A. and Jones, C. B. 2000. Episodes in space: qualitative representation and reasoning over spatio-temporal objects. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools 09 (01) 131. (10.1142/S0218213000000100)