Bella Robinson


2016

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CSIRO Data61 at the WNUT Geo Shared Task
Gaya Jayasinghe | Brian Jin | James Mchugh | Bella Robinson | Stephen Wan
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (WNUT)

In this paper, we describe CSIRO Data61’s participation in the Geolocation shared task at the Workshop for Noisy User-generated Text. Our approach was to use ensemble methods to capitalise on four component methods: heuristics based on metadata, a label propagation method, timezone text classifiers, and an information retrieval approach. The ensembles we explored focused on examining the role of language technologies in geolocation prediction and also in examining the use of hard voting and cascading ensemble methods. Based on the accuracy of city-level predictions, our systems were the best performing submissions at this year’s shared task. Furthermore, when estimating the latitude and longitude of a user, our median error distance was accurate to within 30 kilometers.

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The Effects of Data Collection Methods in Twitter
Sunghwan Mac Kim | Stephen Wan | Cécile Paris | Brian Jin | Bella Robinson
Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science

2014

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Developing a Sina Weibo Incident Monitor for Disasters
Bella Robinson | Hua Bai | Robert Power | Xunguo Lin
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2014

2013

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An Evidence Based Earthquake Detector using Twitter
Bella Robinson | Robert Power | Mark Cameron
Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Processing and Crisis Information 2013

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Finding Fires with Twitter
Robert Power | Bella Robinson | David Ratcliffe
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2013 (ALTA 2013)