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Pairing Tweets with the Right Location

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Twitter is used to provide location-relevant information and event updates. It is important to identify location-relevant tweets in order to harness location-relevant information and event updates from Twitter. However, the identification of location-relevant tweets is a challenging problem as the location names are not always explicit. Instead, mostly the location names are implicitly embedded in tweets. This research proposes a novel approach, labelled as DigiCities, to add geographical context to non-geo tagged tweets. The proposed approach helps in improving identification of location-relevant tweet by harnessing the location-specific information embedded in user-ids and hashtags included in tweets. Tweets relevant to eight cities were identified and used in classification experiments, and the use of DigiCities improved the overall classification accuracy of tweets into relevant city classes.

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Esha, Zaïane, O. (2021). Pairing Tweets with the Right Location. In: Jallouli, R., Bach Tobji, M.A., Mcheick, H., Piho, G. (eds) Digital Economy. Emerging Technologies and Business Innovation. ICDEc 2021. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 431. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92909-1_18

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