Space Time Narratives

Understanding imprecise space and time in narratives through qualitative representations, reasoning, and visualisation.

Papers and peer reviewed presentations:

  • van de Weghe, N., de Sloover, L., Cohn, A. G., Huang, H., Scheider, S., Sieber, R. E., Timpf, S., & Claramunt, C. (2025). Opportunities and Challenges of Integrating Geographic Information Science and Large Language Models. Journal of Spatial Information Science, Volume 30, 93-116.
  • Haris, E., Cohn, A. G., & Stell, J. G. (2024). Semantic Perspectives on the Lake District Writing: Spatial Ontology Modeling and Relation Extraction for Deeper Insights. 16th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2024). Schloss Dagstuhl–Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik.
  • Gregory I., Ezeani I., Frank Z., Haris E., Murrieta-Flores P. and Steiner E. (accepted Mar 2024) “Analysing Textual Geographies in the Spatial Humanities” in Corrigan J., Bodenhamer D. and Harris T.M. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Spatial Humanities Oxford University Press: Oxford
  • Gregory, I., Smail, R., Taylor, J., & Butler, J. (2024). Exploring Qualitative Geographies in Large Volumes of Digital Text: Placing Tourists, Travelers, and Inhabitants in the English Lake District. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 114(9), 1985-2009. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2024.2369593
  • Ezeani, I., Rayson, P., Gregory, I. N., Cole, T., Steiner, E., & Frank, Z. (2024). The Geography of ‘Fear’, ‘Sadness’, ‘Anger’ and ‘Joy’: Exploring the Emotional Landscapes in the Holocaust Survivors’ Testimonies. In Proceedings of Text2Story - Seventh Workshop on Narrative Extraction From Texts held in conjunction with the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2024) (Vol. 3671, pp. 93-103). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 3671). CEUR Workshop Proceedings. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3671/paper8.pdf
  • Ezeani, I., Rayson, P., Gregory I. (2024), The Journey of Emotions in the Holocaust Survivors’ Testimonies. Presented at the Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources, HTRes2024, LREC-COLING 2024, Lingotto Conference Centre, Turin, Italy.
  • Erum Haris, Anthony G. Cohn and John G. Stell (Spatial Humanities 2024 Poster presentation)- A GPT-Based Approach to Unraveling Spatial Descriptions in the English Lake District Narratives
  • Haris, E. , Cohn, A.G. and Stell, J.G. (2024) Exploring Spatial Representations in the Historical Lake District Texts with LLM-based Relation Extraction. In: Hu, X., Purves, R., Moncla, L., Kersten, J. and Stock, K., (eds.) CEUR Workshop Proceedings. GeoExT 2024: Second International Workshop on Geographic Information Extraction from Texts at ECIR 2024, 24 Mar 2024, Glasgow, UK. CEUR-WS.org , pp. 63-73. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3683/paper9.pdf
  • Ezeani, I., Rayson, P., Gregory, I., Haris, E., Cohn, A., Stell, J., Cole, T., Taylor, J., Bodenhamer, D., Devadasan, N., Steiner, E., Frank, Z., & Olson, J. (2023). Towards an Extensible Framework for Understanding Spatial Narratives. In GeoHumanities ‘23: Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities (pp. 1-10). (Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3615887.3627761
  • Haris, E., Cohn, A.G. and Stell, J.G. (2023) Understanding the Spatial Complexity in Landscape Narratives Through Qualitative Representation of Space (Short Paper). In 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 277, pp. 37:1-37:6, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.37
  • Ezeani, I., Rayson, P., & Gregory, I. (2023). Extracting Imprecise Geographical and Temporal References from Journey Narratives. In Text2Story 2023 Sixth Workshop on Narrative Extraction From Texts: Proceedings of Text2Story — Sixth Workshop on Narrative Extraction From Texts held in conjunction with the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2023) (pp. 113-118). Article 11 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 3370). CEUR Workshop Proceedings. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3370/paper11.pdf
  • Steiner, E., Frank, Z., Gregory, I., Bodenhamer, D., & Ezeani, I. (2023). Spatio-Textual Regions: Extracting Sense of Place from Spatial Narratives. In PLATIAL’23: International Symposium on Platial Information Science 19–21 September 2023 / Dortmund, Germany (pp. 15-22) https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.8286257
  • Cole, Tim and Steiner, Erik. “‘It’s Not Just What They Say, but Also How They Say It’: Machine-Reading Narrative Strategies in Survivor Testimony.” Lessons & Legacies XVII: Languages of the Holocaust, 2024.
  • Zephyr Frank and Steiner, Erik. “Emotional Geographies: Distant Reading Survivor Testimony beyond the Simple Word Search.” Lessons & Legacies XVII: Languages of the Holocaust, 2024.

Other presentations:

  • Exploring Spatial Narratives Using Digital Approaches, Digital Humanities Seminar Series, School of English, University of Leeds, March 13th, 2024.
  • Ezeani, Ignatius Recent Developments in the Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities Conference, Universidad Autónoma Madrid, Spain, January 8 - 10, 2024
  • John Stell, Ignatius Ezeani and Erum Haris: Digital Horizons time/place mapping seminar on 13th March 2024.
  • Ezeani I. and Stell J. (2023) Understanding imprecise time and space in narratives. Digital Humanities Community Day, Leeds (June 2023)
  • Symposium on spatio-textual analysis in Holocaust Studies, online, 4th May 2023
  • Plenary presentation at Humanities in the Digital Age: New directions and emerging trends, hosted online by Kristu Jayanti College, India, 29th March 2023.
  • Building and using shareable infrastructure to advance HGIS at the Social Science History Assoc, Chicago, 17 November 2022 (presented online)
  • Building Digital Humanities, hosted online by Western Sydney University, November 2022
  • Spatial Humanities conference presentation, September 2022

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