Eyewitness: Identifying local events via space-time signals in Twitter feeds

GIS: Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

Volumn 03-06-November-2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Krumm, John ^a   Horvitz, Eric ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Local events; Microblog; Twitter

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DECISION TREE CLASSIFIERS; DETECTION PRECISION; EVENT DETECTION; LOCAL EVENTS; MICRO-BLOG; SPACE-TIME SIGNALS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; TWITTER;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84961198026     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2820783.2820801     Document Type: Conference Paper

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