Detecting Locations from Twitter Messages
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There is a large amount of information that can be extracted automatically from social media messages. Of particular interest are the topics discussed by the users, the opinions and emotions expressed, and the events and the locations mentioned. This work focuses on machine learning methods for detecting locations from Twitter messages, because the extracted locations can be useful in business, marketing and defence applications (Farzindar and Inkpen, 2015).
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