Location inference using microblog messages

WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web Companion

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 687-690

  Ikawa, Yohei ^a   Enoki, Miki ^a   Tatsubori, Michiaki ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Geolocation estimation; Microblog; Text analysis

Indexed keywords

DISASTER INFORMATION; GEOLOCATIONS; MICRO-BLOG; SOCIAL MEDIA; TEXT ANALYSIS; TEXTUAL CONTENT;

DISASTERS; MOBILE DEVICES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84861028462     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2187980.2188181     Document Type: Conference Paper

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