Ankit Kariryaa

Defining and Predicting the Localness of Volunteered Geographic Information using Ground Truth Data

Many applications of geotagged content are predicated on the concept of localness (e.g., local restaurant recommendation, mining social media for local perspectives on an issue). However, definitions of who is a “local” in a given area are typically informal and ad-hoc and, as a result, approaches for localness assess…