Where's @wally? A classification approach to geolocating users based on their social ties

HT 2013 - Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 11-20

  Rout, Dominic ^a   Preoţiuc Pietro, Daniel ^a   Bontcheva, Kalina ^a   Cohn, Trevor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classification; Geolocation; Social networks; Support Vector Machines; Twitter

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION APPROACH; CLASSIFICATION TASKS; GEOLOCATIONS; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; SVM CLASSIFIERS; TWITTER; USER NETWORKS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84879745141     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2481492.2481494     Document Type: Conference Paper

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