Where in the World Are You? Geolocation and Language Identification in Twitter

Professional Geographer

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 568-578

  Graham, Mark ^a   Hale, Scott A ^a   Gaffney, Devin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

geography; language; Twitter

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY; SOCIAL NETWORK;

EID: 84908226358     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2014.907699     Document Type: Article

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