Geolocation of Tweets with a BiLSTM Regression Model

Piyush Mishra


Abstract
Identifying a user’s location can be useful for recommendation systems, demographic analyses, and disaster outbreak monitoring. Although Twitter allows users to voluntarily reveal their location, such information isn’t universally available. Analyzing a tweet can provide a general estimation of a tweet location while giving insight into the dialect of the user and other linguistic markers. Such linguistic attributes can be used to provide a regional approximation of tweet origins. In this paper, we present a neural regression model that can identify the linguistic intricacies of a tweet to predict the location of the user. The final model identifies the dialect embedded in the tweet and predicts the location of the tweet.
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2020.vardial-1.27
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Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects
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December
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2020
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Barcelona, Spain (Online)
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Marcos Zampieri, Preslav Nakov, Nikola Ljubešić, Jörg Tiedemann, Yves Scherrer
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VarDial
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL)
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283–289
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Piyush Mishra. 2020. Geolocation of Tweets with a BiLSTM Regression Model. In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, pages 283–289, Barcelona, Spain (Online). International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL).
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