Detecting Places of Interest Using Social Media

Steven Van Canneyt, Steven Schockaert, Olivier Van Laere, Bart Dhoedt
2012 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology  
Place recommender systems are increasingly being used to find places of a given type that are close to a user-specified location. As it is important for these systems to use an up-to-date database with a wide coverage, there is a need for techniques that are capable of expanding place databases in an automated way. On the other hand, social media are a rich source of geographically distributed information. In this paper, we therefore propose an approach to discover new instances of a given
more » ... type by exploiting correlations between terms and locations in geotagged social media. For a variety of place types, our approach is able to find places which are not yet included in popular place databases such as Foursquare or Google Places.
doi:10.1109/wi-iat.2012.19 dblp:conf/webi/CanneytSLD12 fatcat:z3srunxwovganjuubkrxegoyv4