The invention discloses an urban functional area identification process based on space-time
semantic mining, which comprises documents, words, basic functional units, space-
time data, a
topic model, document topic distribution and unit function distribution, and is characterized in that firstly, hidden functions of an area are tried to discover through the
topic model, compared with a text theme mining, the basic function units are equivalent to the documents in a corpus, space-
time data in the basic function unit is similar to words in the document, unit function distribution obtained after passing through the
topic model is equivalent to document topic distribution, and the used city space-
time data is representative Sina microblog position sign-in data. Each piece of sign-in data comprises
user information, space coordinates of sign-in positions, publishing time, publishing texts and the like. Dynamic activity
modes of people can be reflected from different angles, meanwhile, POIs in a research area are obtained from a Baidu map, and function recognition of the area is achieved.