Twitter user geolocation using a unified text and network prediction model

ACL-IJCNLP 2015 - 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2015, Pages 630-636

  Rahimi, Afshin ^a   Cohn, Trevor ^a   Baldwin, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); LINGUISTICS; TRACKING (POSITION);

BENCHMARK DATASETS; GEOLOCATIONS; HOMOPHILY; LABEL PROPAGATION; NETWORK PREDICTION; PREDICTION-BASED;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84944075416     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/v1/p15-2104     Document Type: Conference Paper

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