Hasso-Plattner-Institut
Prof. Dr. Felix Naumann
 

21.02.2017

The paper titled 'What was Hillary Clinton doing in Katy, Texas?' by Toni Gruetze, Konstantina LazaridouRalf Krestel, and Felix Naumann has been selected to be presented at the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW) in Perth in April.

Abstract

During the last presidential election in the United States of America, Twitter drew a lot of attention. This is because many leading persons and organizations, such as U.S. president Donald J. Trump, showed a strong affection to this medium. In this work we neglect the political contents and opinions shared on Twitter and focus on the question:
Can we determine and track the physical location of the presidential candidates based on posts in the Twittersphere?