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    Analysing the interplay of location, language and links utilising geotagged Twitter content
    Afshin, Rahimi ( 2018)
    Language use and interactions on social media are geographically biased. In this work we utilise this bias in predictive models of user geolocation and lexical dialectology. User geolocation is an important component of applications such as personalised search and recommendation systems. We propose text-based and network-based geolocation models, and compare them over benchmark datasets yielding state-of-the- art performance. We also propose hybrid and joint text and network geolocation models that improve upon text or network only models and show that the joint models are able to achieve reasonable performance in minimal supervision scenarios, as often happens in real world datasets. Finally, we also propose the use of continuous representations of location, which enables regression modelling of geolocation and lexical dialectology. We show that our proposed data-driven lexical dialectology model provides qualitative insights in studying geographical lexical variation.
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    The effects of sampling and semantic categories on large-scale supervised relation extraction
    Willy ( 2012)
    The purpose of relation extraction is to identify novel pairs of entities which are related by a pre-specified relation such as hypernym or synonym. The traditional approach to relation extraction is to building a dedicated system for a particular relation, meaning that significant effort is required to repurpose the approach to new relations. We propose a generic approach based on supervised learning, which provides a standardised process for performing relation extraction on different relations and domains. We explore the feasibility of the approach over a range of relations and corpora, focusing particularly on the development of a realistic evaluation methodology for relation extraction. In addition to this, we investigate the impact of semantic categories on extraction effectiveness.