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Localize Online Social Network User via Social Sensing

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Zidong Yang,

Shibo He,

Jiming Chen,

Youxian SunAuthors Info & Claims

SocialSens'17: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Social Sensing

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3055601.3055619

Published: 18 April 2017 Publication History

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Dynamically localizing users in online social networks is challenging because people seldom post location-related microblogs due to privacy concern. To increase inference accuracy, a promising approach is to leverage microblogs from friends. However, it is difficult because microblogs from friends may not be synchronized or informative. To tackle these challenges, we propose a system consisting two steps. Firstly, "co-location" friends are detected and used to infer the statistical locations of users. Secondly, users' dynamic locations are determined by considering both statistical locations and POI(point of interest) names in microblogs. Experiments based on real world dataset demonstrates that our approach outperforms previous studies.

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Bo Han, Paul Cook, and Timothy Baldwin. 2013. A Stacking-based Approach to Twitter User Geolocation Prediction. In ACL (Conference System Demonstrations). 7--12.

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SocialSens'17: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Social Sensing

April 2017

97 pages

ISBN:9781450349772

DOI:10.1145/3055601

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CPS Week '17: Cyber Physical Systems Week 2017

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