Location Inference for Non-geotagged Tweets in User Timelines [Extended Abstract]

Pengfei Li, Hua Lu, Nattiya Kanhabua, Sha Zhao, Gang Pan

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Abstract

This study explores the problem of inferring locations for individual tweets. We scrutinize Twitter user timelines in a novel fashion. First of all, we split each user's tweet timeline temporally into a number of clusters, each tending to imply a distinct location. Subsequently, we adapt machine learning models to our setting and design classifiers that classify each tweet cluster into one of the pre-defined location classes at the city level. Extensive experiments on a large set of real Twitter data suggest that our models are effective at inferring locations for non-geotagged tweets and outperform the state-of-the-art approaches significantly in terms of inference accuracy.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 35th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)
Number of pages2
PublisherIEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Publication date2019
Pages2111-2112
Article number8731425
ISBN (Print)978-1-5386-7474-1
ISBN (Electronic)9781538674741
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
EventThe 35th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) - Macau, Macau, China
Duration: 8 Apr 201912 Apr 2019

Conference

ConferenceThe 35th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)
LocationMacau
Country/TerritoryChina
CityMacau
Period08/04/201912/04/2019
SeriesProceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering
ISSN1063-6382

Keywords

  • Bayes
  • Location inference
  • Lstm
  • Twitter

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