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Localize Online Social Network User via Social Sensing

Published: 18 April 2017 Publication History

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Dynamically localizing users in online social networks is challenging because people seldom post location-related microblogs due to privacy concern. To increase inference accuracy, a promising approach is to leverage microblogs from friends. However, it is difficult because microblogs from friends may not be synchronized or informative. To tackle these challenges, we propose a system consisting two steps. Firstly, "co-location" friends are detected and used to infer the statistical locations of users. Secondly, users' dynamic locations are determined by considering both statistical locations and POI(point of interest) names in microblogs. Experiments based on real world dataset demonstrates that our approach outperforms previous studies.

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Rui Li, Shengjie Wang, Hongbo Deng, Rui Wang, and Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang. 2012. Towards social user profiling: unified and discriminative influence model for inferring home locations. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining. ACM, 1023--1031.

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SocialSens'17: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Social Sensing
April 2017
97 pages
ISBN:9781450349772
DOI:10.1145/3055601
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Published: 18 April 2017

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  1. localization
  2. social network
  3. social sensing

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CPS Week '17: Cyber Physical Systems Week 2017
April 18 - 21, 2017
PA, Pittsburgh, USA

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