Heterogeneous Graph Attention Network for User Geolocation

• Published in: PRICAI 2021: Trends in Artificial Intelligence pp. 433 - 447
• Main Authors: Zhang, Xuan, Lin, FuQiang, Dong, DiWen, Chen, WangQun, Liu, Bo
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Attention mechanism; Heterogeneous graph; User geolocation

Identifying the geographic location of online social media users, also known as User Geolocation (UG), plays an essential part in many Internet application services. One main challenge is the scarcity of users’ public geographic information. To overcome it, most works focus on user geolocation predi...