Numerical recipes in C: the art of scientific computing
Numerical recipes in C: the art of scientific computing
Location Privacy in Pervasive Computing
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Web-a-where: geotagging web content
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
On assigning place names to geography related web pages
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Second Edition (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
Preventing Location-Based Identity Inference in Anonymous Spatial Queries
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Why we twitter: understanding microblogging usage and communities
Proceedings of the 9th WebKDD and 1st SNA-KDD 2007 workshop on Web mining and social network analysis
Spatial variation in search engine queries
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
Discovering users' specific geo intention in web search
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web
Inferring private information using social network data
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web
Placing flickr photos on a map
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Social network classification incorporating link typevalues
ISI'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Intelligence and security informatics
Find me if you can: improving geographical prediction with social and spatial proximity
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
Earthquake shakes Twitter users: real-time event detection by social sensors
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
Uncovering social spammers: social honeypots + machine learning
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Bridging the gap between physical location and online social networks
Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Preserving location and absence privacy in geo-social networks
CIKM '10 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
You are where you tweet: a content-based approach to geo-locating twitter users
CIKM '10 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
A geographic study of tie strength in social media
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Weighted multi-attribute matching of user-generated points of interest
Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
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Highly dynamic real-time microblog systems have already published petabytes of real-time human sensor data in the form of status updates. However, the lack of user adoption of geo-based features per user or per post signals that the promise of microblog services as location-based sensing systems may have only limited reach and impact. Thus, in this article, we propose and evaluate a probabilistic framework for estimating a microblog user's location based purely on the content of the user's posts. Our framework can overcome the sparsity of geo-enabled features in these services and bring augmented scope and breadth to emerging location-based personalized information services. Three of the key features of the proposed approach are: (i) its reliance purely on publicly available content; (ii) a classification component for automatically identifying words in posts with a strong local geo-scope; and (iii) a lattice-based neighborhood smoothing model for refining a user's location estimate. On average we find that the location estimates converge quickly, placing 51% of users within 100 miles of their actual location.