Such a wonderful place: Extracting sense of place from twitter

Abstract

The concept of Place has a structured meaning that involves three different aspects: location, locale and sense of place. The definition of sense of place for a specific location requires the analysis of a large amount of data, and social networks are good sources for their extraction since users act as social sensors on them. In this paper, we want to detect the sense of place defined by Twitter’s users for the city of New York using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). Our assumption is that LDA could be used to summarise the several sense of place shared by users.