Extracting fine-grained location with temporal awareness in tweets: A two-stage approach

• Main Authors: Li, Chenliang, Sun, Aixin
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: POI extraction; Tweet location
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85144; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43663
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Twitter has attracted billions of users for life logging and sharing activities and opinions. In their tweets, users often reveal their location information and short-term visiting histories or plans. Capturing user's short-term activities could benefit many applications for providing the right...