Simon Overell's
Publications

This poster will present our work mining location references from different language versions of Wikipedia. The extracted events will be visualised on a map. We will demonstrate that despite Wikipedia’s best efforts for neutrality, cultural biases are introduced. This analysis of Wikipedia will be of interest to the growing community of researches using Wikipedia as a pool of "World Knowledge." By analysing different language versions of Wikipedia we can show how different events have significance to different cultures. Finally we calculate a “bias index” for each language version of Wikipedia we analyse, this is the ratio of references to locations within countries where this is the native language spoken to references outside these countries.

@inproceedings{overell08a,
title={ Distribution of Location References in Wikipedia },
author={Simon Overell and Stefan R\"uger},
year={2008},
month={February},
booktitle = {MMKM Workshop: The Future of Multimedia Knowledge Management},
location = {Milton Keynes, UK},
pages = {23}
} 

SIRIL is part of the multidimensional browsing framework currently being developed by the MMIS team. It consists of an XML API, a dynamically generated user interface and a search engine supporting text, image & geographic IR. The framework will support multi-document types and browsing methods; any server should support any front-end. SIRIL will show case the MMIS term’s work on image indexing & browsing, image annotation and GIR.

@inproceedings{overell07a,
title={ {SIRIL}: {A} multidimensional browsing framework },
author={Peter Howarth and Jo\~ao Magalh\~aes and Simon Overell and Stefan R\"uger and Alexei Yavlinsky},
year={2007},
month={January},
booktitle = {MMKM Workshop: Multimedia Knowledge Managment: Industry meets academia},
location = {Milton Keynes, UK},
pages = {17}
}