Andrea Ballatore
Lecturer
Department of Geography
Birkbeck University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
Andrea Ballatore is a geographic information scientist interested in volunteered geographic information, big data analytics and geographic information retrieval, as well as media studies and the digital humanities. He is the coordinator of the Geo-Analytics and Modelling Group (GAM). Before coming to Birkbeck, he spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher and research coordinator at the Center for Spatial Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, where he remains an affiliated researcher. In 2013, Andrea received a PhD in Geographic Information Science from University College Dublin. He has also worked as a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and as a software engineer in Italy and Ireland.
Research Interest
Geographic information science, place computing Big Data analytics, geographic knowledge discovery Volunteered geographic information, crowdsourcing Cartography, visualization, sonification Conceptual modelling, ontology engineering, Semantic Web, Linked Data Natural language processing, semantic similarity Spatial cognition and spatial language Emotion and sentiment analysis, opinion mining Media studies, digital humanities Internet geography
Publications
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A. Ballatore, M. Bertolotto, & D.C. Wilson (2015) A Structural-Lexical Measure of Semantic Similarity for Geo-Knowledge Graphs, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 4(2), 471–492.
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A. Ballatore & P. Mooney (2015) Conceptualising the geographic world: The dimensions of negotiation in crowdsourced cartography, International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS),29(12), 2310–2327.
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A. Ballatore & M. Bertolotto (2015) Personalizing Maps, Communications of the ACM, 58(12), 68-74.
