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Assessment of user home location geoinference methods


Abstract:

This study presents an assessment of multiple approaches to determine the home and/or other important locations to a Twitter user. In this study, we present a unique appr...Show More

Abstract:

This study presents an assessment of multiple approaches to determine the home and/or other important locations to a Twitter user. In this study, we present a unique approach to the problem of geotagged data sparsity in social media when performing geoinferencing tasks. Given the sparsity of explicitly geotagged Twitter data, the ability to perform accurate and reliable user geolocation from a limited number of geotagged posts has proven to be quite useful. In our survey, we have achieved accuracy rates of over 86% in matching Twitter user profile locations with their inferred home locations derived from geotagged posts.
Date of Conference: 27-29 May 2015
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 27 July 2015
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Conference Location: Baltimore, MD, USA

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