Title
Topic-based place semantics discovered from microblogging text messages
Abstract
Location-based social network services (LBSNS) such as Foursquare are getting the highlight with the extensive spread of GPS-enabled mobile devices, and a large body of research has been conducted to devise methods for understanding and clustering places. However, in previous studies, the predefined set of semantic categories of places play a critical role in both discovery and evaluation of the results, despite its limited ability to represent the dynamics of the places. We explore beyond the predefined semantic categories of the places and discover topic-based place semantics through the use of Latent Dirichlet Allocation, by extracting topics from the text which people post on site. We also show the proposed method allows for understanding the temporal dynamics of the place semantics. The finding of this study is intended for, but not limited to, context aware services and place recommendation systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2567948.2576955
WWW (Companion Volume)
Keywords
Field
DocType
topic-based place semantics,semantic category,gps-enabled mobile device,microblogging text message,predefined set,latent dirichlet allocation,place semantics,limited ability,place recommendation system,clustering place,predefined semantic category
Context-aware services,Data mining,Latent Dirichlet allocation,Social network,Computer science,Cluster analysis,Recommender system,World Wide Web,Social media,Information retrieval,Microblogging,Mobile device,Semantics
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.41
4
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eunyoung Kim140.41
Hwon Ihm251.09
Sung-hyon Myaeng380289.18