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IAS seminar: Karen Stepanyan
Location: CS0.07
IAS seminar: Karen Stepanyan
Title: Semantic Annotation of Social Media Content by Exploiting Embedded Geolocation Data Abstract: Semantic annotation of unstructured documents is one of the primary directions for interconnecting the Web of Documents with the Web of Data. Despite the considerable progress in the areas of natural language processing and data extraction, the problem of annotating unstructured documents remains open. This paper proposes an approach that improves the process of annotating user-generated social media content by exploiting the embedded geolocation data. We conducted a survey of more than 1.4 million weblogs for demonstrating the rationale for using geolocation data for improving semantic enrichment. The main contribution of the paper is a geolocation-aware semantic annotation model that extends the existing solutions for spotting and disambiguation. The main contribution of the paper is a geolocation-aware semantic annotation model that extends the existing solutions for spotting and disambiguation. The evaluation of the model is based on a corpus of 3,165 weblog posts with embedded geolocation, obtained from 1,775 distinct web feeds. The results demonstrate a high level of accuracy in annotation (87.7%), suggesting the adoption of the model for improving the existing solutions.