The newly emerged machine learning (eg, deep learning) methods have become a strong
driving force to revolutionize a wide range of industries, such as smart healthcare, financial …

Locations, eg, countries, states, cities, and point-of-interests, are central to news, emergency
events, and people's daily lives. Automatic identification of locations associated with or …

In recent years, online social networking has revolutionized interpersonal communication.
The newer research on language analysis in social media has been increasingly focusing …

Scholars have debated whether laws can influence public opinion, but evidence of these
“feedback” effects is scant. This article examines the effect of Arizona's 2010 high-profile anti …

Social media is playing a growing role in disaster management and response. Expectations
are that such media can be critical for sending alerts, identifying critical needs, and focusing …

The increasing popularity of social media has attracted a huge number of people to
participate in numerous activities on a daily basis. This results in tremendous amounts of …

Location extraction, also called “toponym extraction,” is a field covering geoparsing,
extracting spatial representations from location mentions in text, and geotagging, assigning …

Social media data are increasingly utilised as a low-cost alternative to visitor surveys in
characterising nature-based recreation. However, the information available on individual …

Geographically annotated social media is extremely valuable for modern information
retrieval. However, when researchers can only access publicly-visible data, one quickly …

The increasing popularity of the social networking service, Twitter, has made it more
involved in day-to-day communications, strengthening social relationships and information …