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With the development of housing information exchange platforms such as Craigslist, user-generated rental listings now provide big data that cover wide geographies and are rich in textual information. Given the importance of rent prediction in urban studies, this study aims to develop and evaluate models of rental market dynamics using deep learning approaches on spatial and textual data from Craigslist rental listings. We tested a number of machine learning and deep learning models (e.g., convolutional neural network, recurrent neural network) for the prediction of rental prices based on data collected from Atlanta, GA, USA. With textual information alone, deep learning models achieved an average root mean square error (RMSE) of 288.4 and mean absolute error (MAE) of 196.8. When combining textual information with location and housing attributes, the integrated model achieved an average RMSE of 227.9 and MAE of 145.4. These approaches can be applied to assess the market value of rental properties, and the prediction results can be used as indicators of a variety of urban phenomena and provide practical references for home owners and renters.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijgi8080349","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,2]],"date-time":"2019-08-02T11:58:16Z","timestamp":1564747096000},"page":"349","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":28,"title":["Modeling Housing Rent in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area Using Textual Information and Deep Learning"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"8","author":[{"given":"Xiaolu","family":"Zhou","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography, 2855 Main Drive, Fort Worth, TX 76109, USA"},{"name":"Statistics and Mathematics School, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming 650221, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9815-2330","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Weitian","family":"Tong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2273-8079","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dongying","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&amp;M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"457","DOI":"10.1177\/0739456X16664789","article-title":"New insights into rental housing markets across the united states: Web scraping and analyzing craigslist rental listings","volume":"37","author":"Boeing","year":"2017","journal-title":"J. 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