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Dr Ben Adams

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Department: Computer Science and Software Engineering

Email: benjamin.adams@canterbury.ac.nz

Direct Dial: +64 3 3695710

Office: Jack Erskine 310

Language: English

Ben Adams does research in spatial data science and interactive systems for geographic analysis.
About
Research / Creative works
Projects
Methods & Equipment

Fields of Research

  • information retrieval
  • environmental narratives
  • GIR
  • spatial data science
  • eScience
  • geoinformatics
  • exploratory search
  • search user interfaces
  • spatial humanities
  • spatial cognition
  • location-based services

Researcher Summary

In my research I am exploring new ways of using computing technology to advance human understanding of our environment and world. I am interested in understanding, modelling, and improving how the people who want to learn about the world (e.g., scientists, students, and policy makers) interact with and make decisions based on geographic knowledge represented in a computer. The research I undertake is both explanatory and constructive. In the first case I work to develop theories that explain how the information that we produce and share in digital form reflects human conceptualizations of the world. In the second case I build software systems that help people use geographic information better to solve problems. My research methodology is informed by methods from data science, machine learning, spatial information science, interactive systems, and cognitive science.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Sciences: Computer Science; Distributed Geographical Information Systems; Human-Computer Interaction and Multimedia; Information Sciences
  • Human Geography: GIS
  • Science & Technology: Science & Technology
  • Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

Journal Articles
  • McKenzie G. and Adams B. (2021) Natural Language Processing in GIScience Applications. Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge 2021(Q4) http://dx.doi.org/10.22224/gistbok/2021.4.5.
  • Adams B. (2020) Chronotopic Information Interaction: Integrating Temporal and Spatial Structure for Historical Indexing and Interactive Search. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaa049.
  • Adams B., Dodge S. and Purves R. (2020) JOSIS' 10th anniversary special feature. Journal of Spatial Information Science 20: 1-4. http://dx.doi.org/10.5311/JOSIS.2020.20.670.
  • Adams B., Dodge S. and Purves R. (2020) JOSIS’ 10th anniversary special feature: part two. Journal of Spatial Information Science 21: 1-4. http://dx.doi.org/10.5311/JOSIS.2020.21.729.
  • Bahrehdar AR., Adams B. and Purves RS. (2020) Streets of London: Using Flickr and OpenStreetMap to build an interactive image of the city. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 84 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2020.101524.
  • Brachman ML., Church R., Adams B. and Bassett D. (2020) Wayfinding during a wildfire evacuation. Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal 29(3): 249-265. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/DPM-07-2019-0216.
  • Claramunt C., Adams B. and Gahegan M. (2020) Geographical Information Science observatories, theoretical and methodological transitions. Journal of Interdisciplinary Methodologies and Issues in Science 2020: 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.18713/JIMIS-120620-6-2.
  • McKenzie G. and Adams B. (2020) A country comparison of place-based activity response to COVID-19 policies. Applied Geography 125 102363 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102363.
  • O'Sullivan D., Gahegan M., Exeter D. and Adams B. (2020) Spatially explicit models for exploring COVID‐19 lockdown strategies. Transactions in GIS (24) tgis.12660: 967-1000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12660.
  • Purves R. and Adams B. (2019) Editorial. Journal of Spatial Information Science (19) http://dx.doi.org/10.5311/josis.2019.19.609.
  • van Weerdenburg D., Scheider S., Adams B., Spierings B. and van der Zee E. (2019) Where to go and what to do: Extracting leisure activity potentials from Web data on urban space. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 73: 143-156. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2018.09.005.
  • Adams B. and McKenzie G. (2018) Crowdsourcing the character of a place: Character-level convolutional networks for multilingual geographic text classification. Transactions in GIS 22(2): 394-408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12317.
  • McKenzie G. and Adams B. (2018) A data-driven approach to exploring similarities of tourist attractions through online reviews. Journal of Location Based Services 12(2): 94-118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17489725.2018.1493548.
  • Adams B. (2017) Wāhi, a discrete global grid gazetteer built using linked open data. International Journal of Digital Earth 10(5): 490-503. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2016.1229819.
  • Gao S., Janowicz K., Montello DR., Hu Y., Yang J-A., McKenzie G., Ju Y., Gong L., Adams B. and Yan B. (2017) A data-synthesis-driven method for detecting and extracting vague cognitive regions. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 31(6): 1245-1271. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2016.1273357.
  • Scheider S., Ostermann FO. and Adams B. (2017) Why good data analysts need to be critical synthesists. Determining the role of semantics in data analysis. Future Generation Computer Systems 72 C: 11-22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2017.02.046.
  • Adams B. (2015) Finding similar places using the observation-to-generalization place model. Journal of Geographical Systems 17(2): 137-156. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10109-015-0209-3.
  • Adams B. and Janowicz K. (2015) Thematic signatures for cleansing and enriching place-related linked data. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 29(4): 556-579. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2014.989855.
  • Janowicz K., Hitzler P., Adams BT., Kolas D. and Vardeman C. (2014) Five stars of Linked Data vocabulary use. Semantic Web 5(3): 173-176. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SW-140135.
  • McKenzie G., Janowicz K. and Adams B. (2014) A weighted multi-attribute method for matching user-generated Points of Interest. Cartography and Geographic Information Science 41(2): 125-137. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2014.880327.
  • Raubal M. and Adams BT. (2010) The Semantic Web needs more cognition. Semantic Web 1(1,2): 69-74. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SW-2010-0002.
Conference Contributions - Published
  • Ellerm A., Adams B., Gahegan M. and Trombach L. (2022) Enabling LivePublication. In Proceedings - 2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on e-Science, eScience 2022: 419-420. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/eScience55777.2022.00067.
  • Dunn J. and Adams B. (2020) Geographically-balanced gigaword corpora for 50 language varieties. In LREC 2020 - 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Conference Proceedings: 2528-2536.
  • Dunn J. and Adams B. (2020) Geographically-Balanced Gigaword Corpora for 50 Language Varieties. In Proceedings of the Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation: 2528-2536. European Language Resources Association.
  • Dunn J., Coupe T. and Adams B. (2020) Measuring Linguistic Diversity During COVID-19. In Jurgens D; Volkova S; Bamman D; Hovy D; O'Connor B (Eds). Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science: 1-10. Association for Computational Linguistics. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.nlpcss-1.1.
  • Darling M., Adams B., Orchiston C., Wilson T. and Bradley B. (2019) Understanding population fluctuations through volunteered geographic information and novel indicators: The experience of Rakiura, Stewart Island, New Zealand. In Geocomputation 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.17608/k6.auckland.9846323.v1.
  • Dunn J. and Adams B. (2019) Mapping Languages and Demographics with Georeferenced Corpora. In Proceedings of GeoComputation 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.17608/k6.auckland.9869252.v2.
  • Kwok TCK., Kiefer P., SChinazi VR., Adams B. and Raubal M. (2019) Gaze-guided narratives: Adapting audio guide content to gaze in virtual and real environments. In CHI '19 Proceedings: 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300721.
  • Adams B. (2018) From spatial representation to processes, relational networks, and thematic roles in geographic information retrieval. In Proceedings - GIR 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3281354.3281355.
  • Adams B. and Tomko M. (2018) A critical look at cryptogovernance of the real world: Challenges for spatial representation and uncertainty on the blockchain. In Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs 114 http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2018.18.
  • Kiefer P., Adams B. and Raubal M. (2018) Gaze-Guided Narratives for Outdoor Tourism. In http://dx.doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000308968.
  • Adams BT., Chesnokova O. and Grossner K. (2017) Spatial Humanities Meets Spatial Information Theory: Space, Place, and Time in Humanities Research—Introduction. In Fogliaroni P; Ballatore A; Clementini E (Eds). Proceedings of Workshops and Posters at the 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2017): 263-264. Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63946-8_42.
  • McKenzie G. and Adams BT. (2017) Juxtaposing thematic regions derived from spatial and platial user-generated content. In Clementini E; Donnelly M; Yuan M; Kray C; Fogliaroni P; Ballatore A (Eds). LIPIcs : Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 86: 20:1-20:14. Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik. http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2017.20.
  • Adams B. and Gahegan M. (2016) Exploratory Chronotopic Data Analysis. In Geographic Information Science, (GIScience 2016) 9927: 243-258. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45738-3_16.
  • Adams B. and Gahegan M. (2016) We Need to Rethink How We Describe and Organize Spatial Information: Instrumenting and Observing the Community of Users to Improve Data Description and Discovery. In GEOProcessing 2016 : The Eighth International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services (2016), 131-136: 131-136.
  • Adams BT. and Gahegan M. (2016) We Need to Rethink How We Describe and Organize Spatial Information. In GEOProcessing 2016 : The Eighth International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services: 131-136.
  • Janowicz K., Hu Y., McKenzie G., Gao S., Regalia B., Mai G., Zhu R., Adams B. and Taylor K. (2016) Moon Landing or Safari? A Study of Systematic Errors and Their Causes in Geographic Linked Data. In Geographic Information Science, (GIScience 2016) 9927: 275-290. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45738-3_18.
  • Ju Y., Adams B., Janowicz K., Hu Y., Yan B. and McKenzie G. (2016) Things and Strings: Improving Place Name Disambiguation from Short Texts by Combining Entity Co-Occurrence with Topic Modeling. In KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, EKAW 2016 10024: 353-367. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49004-5_23.
  • Züfle A., Adams B. and Wu D. (2016) Preface. In 3rd International ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Managing and Mining Enriched Geo-Spatial Data, GeoRich 2016 - In conjunction with SIGMOD 2016.
  • Adams BT., McKenzie G. and Gahegan MN. (2015) Frankenplace: interactive thematic mapping for ad hoc exploratory search. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web: 12-22. International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2736277.2741137.
  • Ballatore A. and Adams BT. (2015) Extracting Place Emotions from Travel Blogs. In Bacao F; Santos MY; Painho M (Eds). Geographic Information Science as an Enabler of Smarter Cities and Communities: 1-4.
  • McKenzie G., Adams BT. and Janowicz K. (2015) Of Oxen and Birds: Is Yik Yak a useful new data source in the geosocial zoo or just another Twitter? In LBSN'15 Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks: 1-4. ACM. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2830657.2830659.
  • Adams B., Janowicz K., McKenzie G. and Kauppinen T. (2014) Preface. In CEUR Workshop Proceedings 1273.
  • Adams BT. and Gahegan M. (2014) Emerging data challenges for next-generation spatial data infrastructure. In Proceedings of Research at Locate'14 1142: 118-129. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
  • Adams BT. and Raubal M. (2014) Identifying salient topics for personalized place similarity. In Proceedings of Research at Locate '14 1142: 1-12. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
  • Adams BT., Gahegan M., Gupta P. and Hosking R. (2014) Geographic Information Observatories for Supporting Science. In GIO 2014 Geographic Information Observatories Proceedings of the Workshop on Geographic Information Observatories 2014 1273: 32-39. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
  • Gahegan M. and Adams BT. (2014) Re-envisioning data description using Peirce’s pragmatics. In Duckham M; Pebesma E; Stewart K; Frank A (Eds). (LNCS 8728): 142-158. Springer.
  • Janowicz K., Adams BT., McKenzie G. and Kauppinen T. (2014) Towards Geographic Information Observatories. In GIO 2014 Geographic Information Observatories Proceedings of the Workshop on Geographic Information Observatories 2014 1273: 1-5. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
  • McKenzie G., Adams B. and Janowicz K. (2013) A Thematic Approach to User Similarity Built on Geosocial Check-ins. In GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE AT THE HEART OF EUROPE: 39-53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00615-4_3.
  • McKenzie G., Janowicz K. and Adams BT. (2013) Weighted Multi-Attribute Matching of User-Generated Points of Interest. In 21st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems: 440-443. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2525314.2525455.
  • Whitehead B., Adams BT., Schildhauer M., Vardeman C., Kuhn W., Shepard A. and Sinha K. (2013) Abstracting Transport to an Ontology Design Pattern for the Geosciences. In WOP'13 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Ontology and Semantic Web Patterns - Volume 1188 1188: 88-92.
  • Adamec BH. and Asher P. (2012) American Geophysical Union Education and Public Outreach Programs: Empowering Future Earth and Space Scientists. In CONNECTING PEOPLE TO SCIENCE: A NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE EDUCATION AND PUBLIC OUTREACH 457: 201-204.
  • Adams BT. and Janowicz K. (2012) On the Geo-Indicativeness of Non-Georeferenced Text. In Proceedings of the Sixth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media: 375-378.
  • Adams BT. and McKenzie G. (2012) Frankenplace: An Application for Similarity-Based Place Search. In Proceedings of the Sixth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media: 616-617.
  • Adams BT. and Janowicz K. (2011) Constructing geo-ontologies by reification of observation data. In GIS '11 Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems: 309-318. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2093973.2094015.
  • Adams BT. (2010) Semantic Referencing - Determining Context Weights for Similarity Measurement. In Fabrikant SI; Reichenbacher T; van Kreveld M; Schlieder C (Eds). Geographic Information Science 6th International Conference, GIScience 2010 Zurich, Switzerland, September 14-17, 2010 Proceedings: 70-84. Springer.
  • Adams BT., Li L., Raubal M. and Goodchild M. (2010) A general framework for conflation. In Extended Abstracts Volume, GIScience 2010.
  • Brachman ML. and Adams B. (2010) Theoretical framework for a mobile emergency decision support and routing application. In GI4DM 2010 Conference - Geomatics for Crisis Management: 153-158.
  • Adams B. and Raubal M. (2009) Conceptual Space Markup Language (CSML): Towards the cognitive SemanticWeb. In ICSC 2009 - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing: 253-260. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSC.2009.58.
  • Adams BT. and Raubal M. (2009) A metric conceptual space algebra. In Hornsby KS; Claramunt C; Denis M; Ligozat G (Eds). Spatial Information Theory 9th International Conference, COSIT 2009 Aber Wrac’h, France, September 21-25, 2009 Proceedings: 51-68. Springer.
  • Ventura J., Adams BT., Forbes A., Joshi S., Grossner K., Bulger M., Hollerer T. and Manjunath BS. (2009) IssueBrowser: Knowledge acquisition via multimedia data. In Proceedings of The Future of Interactive Media: Workshop on Media Arts, Science, and Technology (MAST).
Chapters
  • Purves RS., Koblet O. and Adams B. (2022) Analysing Environmental Narratives Computationally. Unlocking Environmental Narratives: Towards Understanding Human Environment Interactions through Computational Text Analysis: 43-84.Ubiquity Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bcs.c.
  • Purves RS., Koblet O. and Adams B. (2022) Introduction. Unlocking Environmental Narratives: Towards Understanding Human Environment Interactions through Computational Text Analysis: 3-16.Ubiquity Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bcs.a.
  • Purves RS., Koblet O. and Adams B. (2022) Showing the Potential of Computational Analysis to Support Environmental Narrative Research. Unlocking Environmental Narratives: Towards Understanding Human Environment Interactions through Computational Text Analysis: 87-92.Ubiquity Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bcs.d.
  • Purves RS., Koblet O. and Adams B. (2022) Surveying the Terrain and Looking Forward. Unlocking Environmental Narratives: Towards Understanding Human Environment Interactions through Computational Text Analysis: 233-244.Ubiquity Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bcs.l.
  • Purves RS., Koblet O., Adams B., Lund KA., Jones K., Luria S., Wartmann F., Fairclough G. and Viehhauser G. (2022) Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Environmental Narratives. Unlocking Environmental Narratives: Towards Understanding Human Environment Interactions through Computational Text Analysis: 17-42.Ubiquity Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bcs.b.
  • Taylor JE. and Adams B. (2022) The Wild Process: Constructing Multi-Scalar Environmental Narratives. Unlocking Environmental Narratives: Towards Understanding Human Environment Interactions through Computational Text Analysis: 161-178.Ubiquity Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bcs.h.
  • Hu Y. and Adams B. (2020) Harvesting Big Geospatial Data from Natural Language Texts. In Werner M; Chiang Y-Y (Ed.), Handbook of Big Geospatial DataSpringer.
  • Kiefer P., Adams B., Kwok TCK. and Raubal M. (2020) Modeling Gaze-Guided Narratives for Outdoor Tourism. In McCrickard S; Jones M; Stelter T (Ed.), HCI Outdoors: Theory, Design, Methods and Applications: 307-318.Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45289-6_17.
  • Adams BT. and McKenzie G. (2013) Inferring thematic places from spatially referenced natural language descriptions. In Sui D; Elwood S; Goodchild M (Ed.), Crowdsourcing geographic knowledge: 201-221.Springer.
  • Janowicz K., Scheider S. and Adams BT. (2013) A Geo-Semantics Flyby. Reasoning Web. Semantic Technologies for Intelligent Data Access: 230-250.Springer.
Conference Contributions - Other
  • Darling M., Wilson T., Orchiston C., Adams B. and Bradley B. (2020) Safety does not take a holiday: Towards real-time indicators of population exposure for disaster risk assessments. Nelson, New Zealand: QuakeCoRE Annual Meeting.
  • Darling M., Wilson T., Bradley BA., Orchiston C. and Adams B. (2019) Understanding disaster risk exposure to visitors to the South Island of New Zealand. Nelson, New Zealand: QuakeCoRE Annual Meeting.
  • Rebich Hespanha S., Adams BT. and Schildhauer M. (2013) Visual Browsing of Earth and Environmental Science Topics to Enhance Data Discovery. San Francisco, CA, USA: American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2013, 9-13 Dec 2013.
  • Schildhauer M., Adams BT. and Rebich Hespanha S. (2013) Text Mining to inform construction of Earth and Environmental Science Ontologies. San Francisco, CA, US: American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2013, 9-13 Dec 2013.
  • Grossner K. and Adams BT. (2011) COSIT at Twenty: Measuring Research Trends and Interdisciplinarity. COSIT 2011, 1 Sep 2011.
Edited Volumes
  • Scheider S; Adams BT; Janowicz K; Vasardani M; Winter S (Ed.) (2013) COMP 2013 ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Models of Place. New York: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc..
Discussion/Working Papers
  • Adams B. (2019) Spatial data science: Closing the human-spatial computing-environment loop. UCSB Center for Spatial Studies. http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.23625.49762.
  • Janowicz K. and Adams BT. (2014) Semantic Signatures for Places of Interest. UCSB Center for Spatial Studies.
  • Scheider S., Janowicz K. and Adams BT. (2012) The observational roots of reference of the semantic web. arXiv.
Theses / Dissertations
  • Adams BT. (2012) Operationalizing Place: Discovering, reasoning about, and exploring place knowledge from descriptions. Santa Barbara. University of California, Santa Barbara.

Research Projects

  • Understanding Place

Key Methodologies

  • natural language processing
  • spatial analysis
  • machine learning
  • deep learning
  • data mining
  • semantics
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