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State of the Art of Event Detection from Geo-tagged Twitter Data
Diao Lin
Chair of Cartography, Technical University of Munich
Time and date: Mon, November 27, 2:15 pm
Venue: INF 348, Room 015, Department of Geography, Heidelberg University
The speaker tries to give a structured and comprehensive overview of [...]

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In contrast to photo-based VGI (e.g. Flickr) the correlation between the place where an information has been created and what the information is about is less intuitive for text-based VGI. In order to gain more insight into the relationship between text information generated in mobile contexts (e.g. via smartphones) and their recorded location, research has [...]

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