A survey of location inference techniques on Twitter

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 855-864

  Ajao, Oluwaseun ^a   Hong, Jun ^a   Liu, Weiru ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; location inference; Twitter analytics

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; DISASTERS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LOCATION; SURVEYS;

EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; GRANULARITY LEVELS; INFERENCE TECHNIQUES; SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICES; SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS; TARGETED ADVERTISING; TWITTER ANALYTICS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84948440073     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551515602847     Document Type: Review

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