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 …

Location details of social users are important in diverse applications ranging from news
recommendation systems to disaster management. However, user location is not easy to …

Social media like Twitter have become globally popular in the past decade. Thanks to the
high penetration of smartphones, social media users are increasingly going mobile. This …

The wide spread use of social network services, especially location based services, has
transformed social networks into an important information source of real-world events. Many …

The rapid development of social media data and the associated growth in volume, velocity,
and variety has fostered the idea of using these data to guide traditional remote sensing …

Participation on social media platforms has many benefits but also poses substantial threats.
Users often face an unintended loss of privacy, are bombarded with mis-/disinformation, or …

Users in social networks often form relationships with other users who participate together in
various activities nearby. The activity locations which are frequently shared with the friends …

In this paper, we introduce the first geolocation inference approach for reddit, a social media
platform where user pseudonymity has thus far made supervised demographic inference …

Social networks have played a crucial role as information channels for people to
understanding their daily lives beyond merely being communication tools. In particular …

While geographical metadata referring to the originating locations of tweets provides
valuable information to perform effective spatial analysis in social networks, scarcity of such …