SPOT: Locating Social Media Users Based on Social Network Context
Summary: SPOT estimates user locations from social network context at scale. It compares three models—friend-based baseline, social closeness, and energy/local coefficient—with a confidence-based iteration, demonstrated on Twitter and Gowalla with a web UI. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Longbo Kong (University of North Texas)
- 2. Zhi Liu (University of North Texas)
- 3. Yan Huang (University of North Texas)
BibTeX Citation
@article{kong_vldb14,
title = {{SPOT: Locating Social Media Users Based on Social Network Context}},
author = {Kong, Longbo and Liu, Zhi and Huang, Yan},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '14},
volume = {7},
number = {13},
pages = {1681--1684},
doi = {10.14778/2733004.2733045},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2733004.2733045},
year = {2014}
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