Inferring long-term user properties based on users' location history

  • Authors:
  • Yutaka Matsuo;Naoaki Okazaki;Kiyoshi Izumi;Yoshiyuki Nakamura;Takuichi Nishimura;Kôiti Hasida;Hideyuki Nakashima

  • Affiliations:
  • National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology;National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology;National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology;National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology;National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology;National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology;Future University, Hakodate

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Recent development of location technologies enables us to obtain the location history of users. This paper proposes a new method to infer users' longterm properties from their respective location histories. Counting the instances of sensor detection for every user, we can obtain a sensor-user matrix. After generating features from the matrix, a machine learning approach is taken to automatically classify users into different categories for each user property. Inspired by information retrieval research, the problem to infer user properties is reduced to a text categorization problem. We compare weightings of several features and also propose sensor weighting. Our algorithms are evaluated using experimental location data in an office environment.