Location Prediction Techniques for Twitter Data

Authors

  • U. Satish Kumar
  • M. Raja Suguna

Abstract

Twitter is a social networking service, where users interact with a short message called tweets. Twitter becomes a rich source of information such as trends of a particular topic or events in the society. Research has been carried out to mine the sentimental analysis of tweets revealing the polarity of tweets shared. Besides predicting user’s location can be useful to Crisis Management during emergencies and Natural Disasters and to Cyber Crime. It is Challenging to predict Tweeter User location because it is mostly disclosed. Three types of locations such as user home locations, tweet locations, and mentioned locations can be predicted for a given tweet and the owner of the tweet. In this paper, a detailed study on twitter location prediction techniques in the literature have been carried out.

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Published

2020-02-01

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