%0 Generic %1 Dredze_carmen:a %A Dredze, Mark %A Paul, Michael J. %A Bergsma, Shane %A Tran, Hieu %D 2013 %K carmen k3 location twitter %T Carmen: A Twitter Geolocation System with Applications to Public Health %U http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.309.6126 %X Public health applications using social media often require accurate, broad-coverage location information. However, the standard information provided by social media APIs, such as Twitter, cover a limited number of messages. This paper presents Carmen, a geolocation system that can determine structured location information for messages provided by the Twitter API. Our system utilizes geocoding tools and a combination of automatic and manual alias resolution methods to infer location structures from GPS positions and user-provided profile data. We show that our system is accurate and covers many locations, and we demonstrate its utility for improving influenza surveillance.

@misc{Dredze_carmen:a, abstract = {Public health applications using social media often require accurate, broad-coverage location information. However, the standard information provided by social media APIs, such as Twitter, cover a limited number of messages. This paper presents Carmen, a geolocation system that can determine structured location information for messages provided by the Twitter API. Our system utilizes geocoding tools and a combination of automatic and manual alias resolution methods to infer location structures from GPS positions and user-provided profile data. We show that our system is accurate and covers many locations, and we demonstrate its utility for improving influenza surveillance.}, added-at = {2016-02-09T10:39:28.000+0100}, author = {Dredze, Mark and Paul, Michael J. and Bergsma, Shane and Tran, Hieu}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2fd0762e2502f7bca179d8081dca329ee/asmelash}, description = {Carmen: A Twitter Geolocation System with Applications to Public Health}, interhash = {1cb7bfe3de32f2b6d7e3b769eda81b18}, intrahash = {fd0762e2502f7bca179d8081dca329ee}, keywords = {carmen k3 location twitter}, timestamp = {2016-02-09T10:39:28.000+0100}, title = {Carmen: A Twitter Geolocation System with Applications to Public Health}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.309.6126}, year = 2013 }