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CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
You are where you tweet: a content-based approach to geo-locating twitter users
We propose and evaluate a probabilistic framework for estimating a Twitter user’s city-level location based purely on the content of the user’s tweets, even in the absence of ...
Zhiyuan Cheng, James Caverlee, Kyumin Lee
WWW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Track globally, deliver locally: improving content delivery networks by tracking geographic social cascades
Providers such as YouTube offer easy access to multimedia content to millions, generating high bandwidth and storage demand on the Content Delivery Networks they rely upon. More ...
Salvatore Scellato, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musoles...
FUN
2010
Springer
263views Algorithms» more  FUN 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
Fighting Censorship with Algorithms
In countries such as China or Iran where Internet censorship is prevalent, users usually rely on proxies or anonymizers to freely access the web. The obvious difficulty with this a...
Mohammad Mahdian