Proceedings:
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 6
Volume
Issue:
Vol. 6 No. 1 (2012): Sixth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
Track:
Poster Papers
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Abstract:
Geographic location is a key component for information retrieval on the Web, recommendation systems in mobile computing and social networks, and place-based integration on the Linked Data cloud. Previous work has addressed how to estimate locations by named entity recognition, from images, and via structured data. In this paper, we estimate geographic regions from unstructured, non geo-referenced text by computing a probability distribution over the Earth's surface. Our methodology combines natural language processing, geostatistics, and a data-driven bottom-up semantics. We illustrate its potential for mapping geographic regions from non geo-referenced text.
DOI:
10.1609/icwsm.v6i1.14309
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Vol. 6 No. 1 (2012): Sixth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media