Location prediction in social media based on tie strength

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 459-468

  McGee, Jeffrey ^a   Caverlee, James ^a   Cheng, Zhiyuan ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Location prediction; Spatial data mining; Twitter

Indexed keywords

LOCATION ESTIMATION; LOCATION PREDICTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; NETWORK-BASED APPROACH; SOCIAL-TIE STRENGTHS; SPATIAL DATA MINING; STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNIQUES; TWITTER;

DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; FORECASTING; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LOCATION BASED SERVICES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84889598698     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2505515.2505544     Document Type: Conference Paper

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