From where do tweets originate? - A GIS approach for user location inference

Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks, LBSN 2014 - Held in conjunction with the 22nd ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1-8

  Huang, Qunying ^a   Cao, Guofeng ^b   Wang, Caixia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Big data; Geography; Human mobility; Spatial clustering; Spatiotemporal clustering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIG DATA; DISEASE CONTROL; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LOCATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SITE SELECTION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN MOBILITY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SPATIAL CLUSTERING; SPATIO-TEMPORAL CLUSTERING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEXT-BASED APPROACH; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84964068355     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2755492.2755494     Document Type: Conference Paper

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