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Knowledge Enabled Location Prediction Of Twitter Users, Revathy Krishnamurthy
Knowledge Enabled Location Prediction Of Twitter Users, Revathy Krishnamurthy
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As the popularity of online social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook continues to rise, the volume of textual content generated on the web is increasing rapidly. The mining of user generated content in social media has proven effective in domains ranging from personalization and recommendation systems to crisis management. These applications stand to be further enhanced by incorporating information about the geo-position of social media users in their analysis. Due to privacy concerns, users are largely reluctant to share their location information. As a consequence of this, researchers have focused on automatic inferencing of location information from the …