Simon Overell's
Publications

@article{Overell2011,
author    = {Simon Overell},
title     = {The Problem of Place Name Ambiguity)},
journal   = {SIGSPATIAL Special},
volume    = {3},
number    = {2},
year      = {2011},
pages     = {12-14}
}

Back in Spring 2006, Ali Azimi Bolourian and I took over as student officers of the BCS IRSG. Our remit was to provide a student voice and perspective for the IRSG committee and promote the IRSG to the IR student community. After exchanging dozens of emails and negotiating with the committee for a prize to serve as a suitable incentive, we ran the survey over spring and summer 2007. Information retrieval has a huge research community. Masters’ and PhD students keep the research fresh and flowing. Our first priority was to check the student community knew who the IRSG was and what we were already doing. Beyond that, we wanted to know who was out there, what they wanted and what we should offer.