Tweet Geolocation: Leveraging location, user and peer signals

• Main Authors: CHONG, Wen-Haw, LIM, Ee Peng
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Query expansion; Tweet geolocation; Collaborative filtering; Databases and Information Systems; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3956; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4958/viewcontent/TweetGeolocation_2017_afv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Which venue is a tweet posted from? We referred this as fine-grained geolocation. To solve this problem effectively, we develop novel techniques to exploit each posting user's content history. This is motivated by our finding that most users do not share their visitation history, but have ample...