Twitter Geolocation Prediction Shared Task of the 2016 Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text

Bo Han, Afshin Rahimi, Leon Derczynski, Timothy Baldwin


Abstract
This paper presents the shared task for English Twitter geolocation prediction in WNUT 2016. We discuss details of task settings, data preparations and participant systems. The derived dataset and performance figures from each system provide baselines for future research in this realm.
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W16-3928
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Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (WNUT)
Month:
December
Year:
2016
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Osaka, Japan
Editors:
Bo Han, Alan Ritter, Leon Derczynski, Wei Xu, Tim Baldwin
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WNUT
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Publisher:
The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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Pages:
213–217
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https://aclanthology.org/W16-3928
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Bo Han, Afshin Rahimi, Leon Derczynski, and Timothy Baldwin. 2016. Twitter Geolocation Prediction Shared Task of the 2016 Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (WNUT), pages 213–217, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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Twitter Geolocation Prediction Shared Task of the 2016 Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (Han et al., WNUT 2016)
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