Finding Wormholes with Flickr Geotags

We propose a kernel convolution method to predict similar locations (wormholes) based on human travel behaviour. A scaling parameter can be used to define a set of relevant users to the target location and we show how the geotags of these users can effectively be aggregated to predict a ranking of similar locations. We evaluate results on world and city level using several independent test collections.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: ECIR
• Authors: Maarten Clements, Pavel Serdyukov, Arjen P. de Vries, Marcel J. T. Reinders
• Keywords: ECIR 2010, Human Travel Behaviour, Information Technology, Kernel Convolution Method, Similar Locations