Detecting non-personal and spam users on geo-tagged twitter network

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 370-384

  Guo, Diansheng ^a   Chen, Chao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FEATURE EXTRACTION; GRAPHIC METHODS; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

CONTENT-BASED FEATURES; DATA-SOURCE; GEO-SOCIAL NETWORKS; GEOGRAPHICS; GRAPH-BASED; LOCATION-AWARE TECHNOLOGY; METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS; RAPID GROWTH; TRAINING DATASET; USER CHARACTERISTICS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CLASSIFICATION; DETECTION METHOD; GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH; GRAPHICAL METHOD; INTERNET; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; NETWORK ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK; SOCIAL NETWORK;

EID: 84902269350     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tgis.12101     Document Type: Article

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