[PDF][PDF] User demographics and language in an implicit social network

K Filippova - Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on …, 2012 - aclanthology.org
We consider the task of predicting the gender of the YouTube1 users and contrast two
information sources: the comments they leave and the social environment induced from the …

Explanatory semantic relatedness and explicit spatialization for exploratory search

B Hecht, SH Carton, M Quaderi, J Schöning… - Proceedings of the 35th …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Exploratory search, in which a user investigates complex concepts, is cumbersome with
today's search engines. We present a new exploratory search approach that generates …

Where are you settling down: Geo-locating twitter users based on tweets and social networks

K Ren, S Zhang, H Lin - … Societies Conference, AIRS 2012, Tianjin, China …, 2012 - Springer
In this paper, we investigate the advantages of taking two dimensions of tweet content and
social relationships to construct models for predicting where people settle down as their …

Gender-based models of location from flickr

N O'Hare, V Murdock - Proceedings of the ACM multimedia 2012 …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Geo-tagged content from social media platforms such as Flickr provide large amounts of
data about any given location, which can be used to create models of the language used to …

Learning user characteristics from social tagging behavior

K Schöfegger, C Körner, P Singer… - Proceedings of the 23rd …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
In social tagging systems the tagging activities of users leave a huge amount of implicit
information about them. The users choose tags for the resources they annotate based on …

DUBMMSM'12: international workshop on data-driven user behavioral modeling and mining from social media

J Mahmud, J Caverlee, J Nichols, JO Donovan… - Proceedings of the 21st …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Massive amounts of data are being generated on social media sites, such as Twitter and
Facebook. This data can be used to better understand people, such as their personality …

1st international workshop on user modeling from social media

J Mahmud, J Nichols, M Zhou - Proceedings of the 2012 ACM …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Massive amounts of data are being generated on social media sites, such as Twitter and
Facebook. People from all walks of life share data about social events, express opinions …