Meng Zhang1,2, Xiangyang Luo1,2,*, Ningbo Huang2
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.140, No.3, pp. 2513-2532, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.050517
- 08 July 2024
Abstract Geolocating social media users aims to discover the real geographical locations of users from their publicly available data, which can support online location-based applications such as disaster alerts and local content recommendations. Social relationship-based methods represent a classical approach for geolocating social media. However, geographically proximate relationships are sparse and challenging to discern within social networks, thereby affecting the accuracy of user geolocation. To address this challenge, we propose user geolocation methods that integrate neighborhood geographical distribution and social structure influence (NGSI) to improve geolocation accuracy. Firstly, we propose a method for evaluating the homophily… More >