Room 238 Dept. of Computing Science, Meston Building University of Aberdeen ABERDEEN AB24 3UE Tel: 01224 272213 Email: r.turner@abdn.ac.uk

• 2001 - 2005 BSc Hons (1st Class) Computing Science, University of Aberdeen
• 2005 - Present PhD (Submitted), University of Aberdeen

Current Projects

• How was School Today?
• RoadSafe

Publications

• Turner R., Sripada S., Reiter E. Generating Approximate Geographic Descriptions. To appear in proceedings of ENLG-2009, Athens, Greece, 30-31 March 2009. .(PDF)
• Reiter E., Turner R., Alm N., Black R., Dempster M., Waller A. Using NLG to Help Language-Impaired Users Tell Stories and Participate in Social Dialogues. To appear in proceedings of ENLG-2009, Athens, Greece, 30-31 March 2009. .(PDF)
• Turner R., Sripada S., Reiter E. and Davy I. (2008). Using Spatial Reference Frames to Generate Grounded Textual Summaries of Georeferenced Data In Proceedings of INLG08, Salt Fork, Ohio, USA, 12-14th June 2008 .(PDF)
• Turner R., Sripada S., Reiter E. and Davy I. (2008). Building a Parallel Spatio-Temporal Data-Text Corpus for Summary Generation. In Proceedings of the LREC2008 Workshop on Methodologies and Resources for Processing Spatial Language, Marrakech, Morocco, 31 May 2008 .(PDF)
• Turner R., Sripada S., Reiter E. and Davy I. (2007). Selecting the Content of Textual Descriptions of Geographically Located Events in Spatio-Temporal Weather Data. In Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XV,pages 75-88 .(PDF)
• Turner R., Sripada S., Reiter E. and Davy I. (2006). Generating Spatio-Temporal Descriptions in Pollen Forecasts. Proceedings of EACL06 Companion Volume.(PDF)

Demos

• Pollen Forecasts for Scotland
• Simple computer generated spatial descriptions for single point locations

Resources

GIS & Spatial Databases

• The Jump project, open source Java applications and API's for manipulating spatial data sets
• OpenJump, open source Java GIS enhancement of Jump
• Open Geospatial Consortium
• GEOnet Names Server
• U.S. Geological Survey
• Grass open source GIS
• An Introduction to Spatial Databases
• Geographic Information Systems
• A GIS tutorial
• The Digital Chart of the World and Data Quality Project
• WWW GIS resource list

Spatial Data Mining & Analysis

• Spatial Analysis Tutorial
• 2D Region Segmentation Techniques
• Spatial Data Mining
• Temporal, Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Research Bibliography

Natural Language Generation

• Simplenlg, a Java API for performing simple Lexicalisation and Realisation
• Aquiring Correct Knowledge for Natural Language Generation
• Building Natural Language Generation Systems
• ACL Special Interest Group on Generation (SIGGEN)
• Bateman/Zock list of Natural Language Generation Systems