Text-based twitter user geolocation prediction

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

Volumn 49, Issue , 2014, Pages 451-500

  Han, Bo ^a   Cook, Paul ^a   Baldwin, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EXTENSIVE EXPLORATIONS; FEATURE SELECTION METHODS; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; GEOSPATIAL APPLICATIONS; MODEL GENERALISATION; PREDICTION ACCURACY; PREDICTION SYSTEMS; TEMPORAL VARIANCE;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84896914698     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10769757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1613/jair.4200     Document Type: Article

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