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CNL: Collective Network Linkage across heterogeneous social platforms
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining ICDM 2015: November 14-17, 2015, Atlantic City: Proceedings
  • Ming GAO
  • Ee-peng LIM, Singapore Management University
  • David LO, Singapore Management University
  • Feida ZHU, Singapore Management University
  • Philips Kokoh PRASETYO, Singapore Management University
  • Aoying ZHOU
Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
11-2015
Abstract

The popularity of social media has led many users to create accounts with different online social networks. Identifying these multiple accounts belonging to same user is of critical importance to user profiling, community detection, user behavior understanding and product recommendation. Nevertheless, linking users across heterogeneous social networks is challenging due to large network sizes, heterogeneous user attributes and behaviors in different networks, and noises in user generated data. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised method, Collective Network Linkage (CNL), to link users across heterogeneous social networks. CNL incorporates heterogeneous attributes and social features unique to social network users, handles missing data, and performs in a collective manner. CNL is highly accurate and efficient even without training data. We evaluate CNL on linking users across different social networks. Our experiment results on a Twitter network and another Foursquare network demonstrate that CNL performs very well and its accuracy is superior than the supervised Mobius approach.

ISBN
9781467395038
Identifier
10.1109/ICDM.2015.34
Publisher
IEEE
City or Country
Piscataway, NJ
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International
Additional URL
http://doi.org/10.1109/ICDM.2015.34
Citation Information
Ming GAO, Ee-peng LIM, David LO, Feida ZHU, et al.. "CNL: Collective Network Linkage across heterogeneous social platforms" IEEE International Conference on Data Mining ICDM 2015: November 14-17, 2015, Atlantic City: Proceedings (2015) p. 757 - 762
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/david_lo/207/