Using Robust PCA to estimate regional characteristics of language use from geo-tagged Twitter messages

4th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications, CogInfoCom 2013 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 393-398

  Kondor, Daniel ^a   Csabai, Istvan ^a   Dobos, Laszlo ^a   Szule, Janos ^a   Barankai, Norbert ^a   Hanyecz, Tamas ^a   Sebok, Tamas ^a   Kallus, Zsofia ^a   Vattay, Gabor ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; GEOSPATIAL FEATURES; LOW-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES; MICRO-BLOGGING SERVICES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; ONLINE SOCIAL MEDIAS; REGIONAL CHARACTERISTICS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84894167337     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CogInfoCom.2013.6719277     Document Type: Conference Paper

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