Measuring geographical regularities of crowd behaviors for Twitter-based geo-social event detection

Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location Based Social Networks, LBSN 2010 - Held in Conjunction with ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-10

  Lee, Ryong ^a   Sumiya, Kazutoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Geo social event detection; Geographical regularity; Microblogs

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR PATTERNS; CROWD BEHAVIOR; DETECTION METHODS; GEOGRAPHICAL AREA; GEOGRAPHICAL REGULARITY; LOCATION-AWARE; MICROBLOGGING; MICROBLOGS; SOCIAL EVENTS; SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICES;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 78650855097     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1867699.1867701     Document Type: Conference Paper

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