TY - GEN
T1 - Identifying bloggers' residential areas
AU - Yasuda, Norihito
AU - Hirao, Tsutomu
AU - Suzuki, Jun
AU - Isozaki, Hideki
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - This paper proposes a method to infer bloggers' residential areas. Identifying bloggers' residential areas will be useful as another axis to retrieve weblogs or for tasks that resolve ambiguous objects in terms of geographic contexts. Our method focuses on the local context of geographic location terms and uses binary classifiers to decide whether the context is indicating the writer's residential areas. Experimental results show that the method correctly estimated the residential prefecture out of 47 prefectures in Japan at a 50.7% accuracy rate for bloggers who wrote a geographic location term at least once.
AB - This paper proposes a method to infer bloggers' residential areas. Identifying bloggers' residential areas will be useful as another axis to retrieve weblogs or for tasks that resolve ambiguous objects in terms of geographic contexts. Our method focuses on the local context of geographic location terms and uses binary classifiers to decide whether the context is indicating the writer's residential areas. Experimental results show that the method correctly estimated the residential prefecture out of 47 prefectures in Japan at a 50.7% accuracy rate for bloggers who wrote a geographic location term at least once.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33747169311
SN - 1577352645
SN - 9781577352648
T3 - AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report
SP - 231
EP - 236
BT - Computational Approaches to Analyzing Weblogs - Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium, Technical Report
T2 - 2006 AAAI Spring Symposium
Y2 - 27 March 2006 through 29 March 2006
ER -