Estimating twitter user location using social interactions - A content based approach

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT/SocialCom 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 838-843

  Chandra, Swarup ^a   Khan, Latifur ^a   Muhaya, Fahad Bin ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Content based location estimation; Data mining; Social interaction; Twitter

Indexed keywords

BASELINE ESTIMATION; CONTENT-BASED APPROACH; LOCATION ESTIMATION; LOCATION INFORMATION; MICROBLOGGING; PROBABILISTIC FRAMEWORK; PROBABILITY ESTIMATE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; STATE OF THE ART; TWITTER; USER LOCATION;

DATA MINING; ESTIMATION; INFORMATION USE; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

RISK PERCEPTION;

EID: 84856148239     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.120     Document Type: Conference Paper

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