Geolocation

The geographical properties of words have re- cently begun to be exploited for geolocating documents based solely on their text, often in the context of social media and online content. …...

Text-based document geolocation is com- monly rooted in language-based infor- mation retrieval techniques over geodesic grids. These methods ignore the natural hierarchy of cells in such grids and fall afoul …...

Automated geolocation of social media mes- sages can benefit a variety of downstream ap- plications. However, these geolocation sys- tems are typically evaluated without attention to how changes in time …...

AbstractTwitter-related studies often need to geo-locate Tweets or Twitter users, identifying their real-world geographic locations. As tweet-level geotagging remains rare, most prior work exploited tweet content, timezone and network information …...

AbstractWe propose a method for embedding two-dimensional locations in a continuous vector space using a neural network-based model incorporating mixtures of Gaussian distributions, presenting two model variants for text-based geolocation …...