Geolocation prediction in social media data by finding location indicative words

24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Proceedings of COLING 2012: Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1045-1062

  Han, Bo ^a,b   Cook, Paul ^a   Baldwin, Timothy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Feature selection; Geolocation; Social media

Indexed keywords

GEOLOCATIONS; GEOSPATIAL APPLICATIONS; INFORMATION GAIN; PREDICTION CONFIDENCE; PREDICTION ERRORS; PREDICTION METHODS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA DATUM;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84876796328     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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