Building Type Classification from Social Media Texts via Geo-Spatial Textmining

Matthias Haberle, Martin Werner, Xiao Xiang Zhu

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Abstract

In this work, we present a model for building type classification from Twitter text messages (tweets) by employing geo-spatial textmining methods. First, we apply standard text pre-processing methods and convert the tweets into sentence vectors using fastText. For classification, we apply a feedforward network with two fully connected hidden layers and feed the generated sentence vectors as linguistic features. Classification results suggest that the classes are distinguishable to a certain extent with pure text even with unbalanced class distributions and a very small sample size. However, these findings also undermine, that building type classification with pure text data is a challenging task.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2019 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages10047-10050
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781538691540
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2019
Event39th IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2019 - Yokohama, Japan
Duration: 28 Jul 20192 Aug 2019

Publication series

NameInternational Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Conference

Conference39th IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2019
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityYokohama
Period28/07/192/08/19

Keywords

  • Building Settlement Type
  • Classification
  • Data Mining
  • Deep Learning
  • Language
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Social Media
  • Urban Remote Sensing
  • Word Embedding

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