Author

Ross Sparks

Scientist, CSIRO - Cited by 2,340 - Statistics - monitoring - multivariate analysis - time series analysis

Biography

Ross is a Statistician with over 38 years in research. He is based in Data 61, CSIRO, Australia for the past 25 years. His role is in leading strategic and tactical research projects in Data61, CSIRO. He has published 79 papers in refereed journals, 10 book chapters, 15 papers in conference proceedings and 10 articles in trade magazines. Ross has lectured at the University of Natal, University of Cape Town (Senior Lecturer) and University of Wollongong in Statistics and Applied Mathematics (Senior Lecturer) before joining CSIRO Australia in 1991. 
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An overview and perspective on social network monitoring
WH Woodall, MJ Zhao, K Paynabar, R Sparks, JD WilsonIISE Transactions 49 (3), 354-365, 2017201
120
2017
Cross-target stance classification with self-attention networks
C Xu, C Paris, S Nepal, R SparksarXiv preprint arXiv:1805.06593, 2018201
95
2018
Harnessing tweets for early detection of an acute disease event
A Joshi, R Sparks, J McHugh, S Karimi, C Paris, CR MacIntyreEpidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) 31 (1), 90, 2020202
35
2020
Survey of text-based epidemic intelligence: A computational linguistics perspective
A Joshi, S Karimi, R Sparks, C Paris, CR MacintyreACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) 52 (6), 1-19, 2019201
34
2019
Impact of at-home telemonitoring on health services expenditure and hospital admissions in patients with chronic conditions: before and after control intervention analysis
B Celler, M Varnfield, S Nepal, R Sparks, J Li, R JayasenaJMIR medical informatics 5 (3), e7308, 2017201
32
2017
Automated monitoring of tweets for early detection of the 2014 Ebola epidemic
A Joshi, R Sparks, S Karimi, SLJ Yan, AA Chughtai, C Paris, ...PloS one 15 (3), e0230322, 2020202
25
2020
Monitoring communication outbreaks among an unknown team of actors in dynamic networks
R Sparks, JD WilsonJournal of Quality Technology 51 (4), 353-374, 2019201
24
2019
Modelling hospital length of stay using convolutive mixtures distributions
A Ickowicz, R SparksStatistics in medicine 36 (1), 1-135, 2017201
22
2017
Figurative usage detection of symptom words to improve personal health mention detection
A Iyer, A Joshi, S Karimi, R Sparks, C ParisarXiv preprint arXiv:1906.05466, 2019201
22
2019
Telehealth monitoring of patients in the community
R Sparks, B Celler, C Okugami, R Jayasena, M VarnfieldJournal of Intelligent Systems 25 (1), 37-53, 2016201
21
2016
Home monitoring of chronic disease for aged care
BG Celler, M Varnfield, R Sparks, J Li, S Nepal, J Jang-Jaccard, ...CSIRO Health & Biosecurity, 161
20
2016
Shot or not: Comparison of NLP approaches for vaccination behaviour detection
A Joshi, X Dai, S Karimi, R Sparks, C Paris, CR MacIntyreProceedings of the 18 EMNLP Workshop SMM4H: The 3rd Social Media Mining …, 181
20
2018
Real-time monitoring of events applied to syndromic surveillance
R Sparks, B Jin, S Karimi, C Paris, CR MacIntyreQuality Engineering 31 (1), 73-90, 202
19
2019
A comparison of word-based and context-based representations for classification problems in health informatics
A Joshi, S Karimi, R Sparks, C Paris, CR MacIntyrearXiv preprint arXiv:1906.05468, 2019201
16
2019
Detecting periods of significant increased communication levels for subgroups of targeted individuals
R SparksQuality and Reliability Engineering International 32 (5), 1871-1888, 2016201
13
2016
Twitter content eliciting user engagement: a case study on Australian organisations
SM Kim, K Kageura, J McHugh, S Nepal, C Paris, B Robinson, R Sparks, ...Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion …, 2017201
10
2017
Monitoring communications: aiming to identify periods of unusually increased communications between parties of interest
R SparksQuality Technology & Quantitative Management 13 (1), 3-57, 2016201
9
2016
An insight on big data analytics
R Sparks, A Ickowicz, HJ LenzBig Data Analysis: New Algorithms for a New Society, 33-4, 2016201
8
2016
An investigation into social media syndromic monitoring
RS Sparks, B Robinson, R Power, M Cameron, S WoolfordCommunications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation 46 (), 5901-5923, 2017201
8
2017
DAN: Dual-view representation learning for adapting stance classifiers to new domains
C Xu, C Paris, S Nepal, R Sparks, C Long, Y WangarXiv preprint arXiv:2003.06514, 2020202
7
2020

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