Supervised text-based geolocation using language models on an adaptive grid

EMNLP-CoNLL 2012 - 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1500-1510

  Roller, Stephen ^a   Speriosu, Michael ^b   Rallapalli, Sarat ^a   Wing, Benjamin ^b   Baldridge, Jason ^b  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE GRIDS; GEOGRAPHICAL PROPERTY; GRID CONSTRUCTIONS; LANGUAGE MODEL; ON-LINE CONTENTS; SMALL TRAINING; TRAINING DOCUMENTS; TRAINING SETS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TREES (MATHEMATICS);

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84876799864     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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