Phillies tweeting from philly? Predicting twitter user locations with spatial word usage

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 111-118

  Chang, Hau Wen ^a   Lee, Dongwon ^a   Eltaher, Mohammed ^b   Lee, Jeongkyu ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE ERRORS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; NOISY DATA; PROBABILITY MODELS; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; TEST SETS; UNSUPERVISED APPROACHES; UNSUPERVISED METHOD; USER LOCATION;

FORECASTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84874276761     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASONAM.2012.29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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