Strategies for combining Twitter users geo-location methods

GeoInformatica

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 563-587

  Ribeiro, Silvio ^a   Pappa, Gisele L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Geoinference; Location inference; Methods combination; Social networks; Twitter

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ABUNDANT DATUM; FRIENDSHIP NETWORKS; GEOINFERENCE; INFORMATION SOURCES; INTERACTION NETWORKS; LOCATION ACCURACY; METHODS COMBINATION; TWITTER;

LOCATION;

DETECTION METHOD; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EID: 85015216134     PISSN: 13846175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10707-017-0296-z     Document Type: Article

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