Social-media data for urban sustainability

RT Ilieva, T McPhearson - Nature Sustainability, 2018 - nature.com
A voluminous and complex amount of information—'big data'—from social media such as
Twitter and Flickr is now ubiquitous and of increasing interest to researchers studying …

A survey of location prediction on twitter

X Zheng, J Han, A Sun - IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Locations, eg, countries, states, cities, and point-of-interests, are central to news, emergency
events, and people's daily lives. Automatic identification of locations associated with or …

[PDF][PDF] Using social media to enhance emergency situation awareness

J Yin, A Lampert, M Cameron, B Robinson… - IEEE intelligent …, 2012 - delvalle.bphc.org
Enabling situation awareness in a given environment thus relies on being able to identify an
appropriate set of perception elements, coupled with higher-level comprehension patterns …

Venue link detection for social media messages

F Chen, B Cao, YY Chen, D Joshi - US Patent 10,318,884, 2019 - Google Patents
A method associates social media messages with venues. A social network graph includes
users, messages from users, and venues. The venues include multiple primary venues and …

Gaining insights from social media language: Methodologies and challenges.

ML Kern, G Park, JC Eichstaedt, HA Schwartz… - Psychological …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract Language data available through social media provide opportunities to study
people at an unprecedented scale. However, little guidance is available to psychologists …

Text-based twitter user geolocation prediction

B Han, P Cook, T Baldwin - Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2014 - jair.org
Geographical location is vital to geospatial applications like local search and event
detection. In this paper, we investigate and improve on the task of text-based geolocation …

A meta-analysis of state-of-the-art electoral prediction from Twitter data

D Gayo-Avello - Social Science Computer Review, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Electoral prediction from Twitter data is an appealing research topic. It seems relatively
straightforward and the prevailing view is overly optimistic. This is problematic because …

Where in the world are you? Geolocation and language identification in Twitter

M Graham, SA Hale, D Gaffney - The Professional Geographer, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The movements of ideas and content between locations and languages are unquestionably
crucial concerns to researchers of the information age, and Twitter has emerged as a …

That's what friends are for: Inferring location in online social media platforms based on social relationships

D Jurgens - Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on …, 2013 - ojs.aaai.org
Social networks are often grounded in spatial locality where individuals form relationships
with those they meet nearby. However, the location of individuals in online social networking …

Spatiotemporal social media analytics for abnormal event detection and examination using seasonal-trend decomposition

J Chae, D Thom, H Bosch, Y Jang… - … IEEE conference on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in technology have enabled social media services to support space-time
indexed data, and internet users from all over the world have created a large volume of time …