Hierarchical geographical modeling of user locations from social media posts

WWW 2013 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 25-35

  Ahmed, Amr ^a   Hong, Liangjie ^b   Smola, Alex ^a,c  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^b YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese restaurant process; Geolocation; Nonparemetric Bayesian models; Topic models; Twitter; User profiling

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BAYESIAN MODEL; GEOLOCATIONS; TOPIC MODEL; TWITTER; USER PROFILING;

LOCATION;

EID: 84893029457     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2488388.2488392     Document Type: Conference Paper

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