Evaluating the "geographical awareness" of individuals: An exploratory analysis of twitter data

Cartography and Geographic Information Science

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 103-115

  Xu, Chen ^a   Wong, David W ^a   Yang, Chaowei ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic awareness profiles; Geographic scales; Nlp; Social media

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERNS; EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC AWARENESS PROFILES; GEOGRAPHIC SCALES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NLP; SAMPLE POPULATION; SOCIAL MEDIA;

MINING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE; MOVEMENT; PLACE NAME; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOFTWARE; TRACKING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84878598994     PISSN: 15230406     EISSN: 15450465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2013.776212     Document Type: Article

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