Method and system for extracting and classifying geolocation information utilizing electronic social media

A system for extracting and classifying user geolocation information, said system comprising:

• a processor;
• a data bus coupled to said processor;
• and
• a computer-usable medium embodying computer code, said computer-usable medium being coupled to said data bus, said computer program code comprising instructions executable by said processor and configured for:
• sampling a plurality of social media messages comprising text, from a social media database in order to thereafter filter said plurality of social media messages based on a heuristic rule utilizing a heuristic message filtering module and generate at least one social media message filtered from said plurality of social media messages via said heuristic message filtering module;
• extracting a geolocation entity from said at least one social media message utilizing a geolocation entity-extracting module;
• uploading said at least one message onto a crowd sourcing platform to manually annotate said at least one social media message with a label;
• and
• training a text classification model from said label utilizing a machine-learning algorithm in order to thereafter classify said at least one social medial message by a location classifier and extract location data.

A processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions to cause a processor to perform a process to extract and classify user geolocation information, said code comprising code to:

• sample a plurality of social media messages comprising text, from a social media database in order to thereafter filter said plurality of social media messages based on a heuristic rule utilizing a heuristic message filtering module and generate at least one social media message filtered from said plurality of social media messages via said heuristic message filtering module;
• extract a geolocation entity from said at least one social media message utilizing a geolocation entity-extracting module;
• upload said at least one message onto a crowd sourcing platform to manually annotate said at least one social media message with a label;
• and
• train a text classification model from said label utilizing a machine-learning algorithm in order to thereafter classify said at least one social medial message by a location classifier and extract location data.