Systems and methods for identifying geographic locations of social media content collected over social networks

Abstract

A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to identify geographic locations of all social media content items retrieved form a social network in real time, wherein the geographic locations are physical locations from which the social media content items are originated or authored. If the latitude/longitude (geographic) coordinates of the content item are available, the geographic location of the social media content item can be identified using such geographic coordinates. For content items which geographic coordinates are not available, historical archive of content items with high-confidence of geographic locations are utilized to train a location classifier to predict geographic locations of such content items with high accuracy. Finally, the identified locations of the content items are confirmed to be accurate and are presented to a user together with the content items.