The Geo-Cultural and Geo-Linguistic Dimension of Media

Geo-Social Media Analytics

Mineral resources and geo-engineering

Metals used in everyday life are produced from ores occurring in the Earth’s crust. Geological processes are known to concentrate minerals to form ores of economic value. Mineral processing engineers concentrate these ores by mechanical and physico-chemical methods while the extractive metallurgist extracts the metals by chemical means.

Map Translation Using Geo-tagged Social Media

This paper discusses the problem of map translation, of servicing spatial entities in multiple languages. Existing work on entity translation harvests translation evidence from text resources, not considering spatial locality in translation. In contrast, we mine geo-tagged sources for multilingual tags to improve recall, and consider spatial properties of tags for translation to improve precisi...

Geo-level Bayesian Hierarchical Media Mix Modeling

Media mix modeling is a statistical analysis on historical data to measure the return on investment (ROI) on advertising and other marketing activities. Current practice usually utilizes data aggregated at a national level, which often suffers from small sample size and insufficient variation in the media spend. When sub-national data is available, we propose a geo-level Bayesian hierarchical m...

on translation of phatic communion and socio-cultural relationships between the characters of the novels

phatic communion is a cultural concept which differs across cultures. according to hofstede (2001), the u.s. tends to have individualistic culture; however, asian countries tend to have collectivistic cultures. these cultures view phatic communion differently. in individualistic cultures like u.s., phatic communion reflects speakers’ socio-cultural relationships in conversations. to see whether...