Learn2Link: Linking the Social and Academic Profiles of Researchers

Asmelash Teka Hadgu, Jayanth Kumar Reddy Gundam

Paper type: Full

Keywords: accounts, connections, deep learning, identities, images, learning, network structure, networks, personalized recommendations, structure, texts, twitter

2020-06-11 P9 (14:00-15:00 GMT) [Zoom] [Cal]

Abstract: People have presence across different information networks on the social web. The problem of user identity linking, is the task of establishing a connection between accounts of the same user across different networks. Solving this problem is useful for: personalized recommendations, cross platform data enrichment and verifying online information among others. In this paper, we propose a deep learning based approach that jointly models heterogeneous data: text content, network structure as well as profile names and images, in order to solve the user identity linking problem. We perform experiments on a real world problem of connecting the social profile (Twitter) and academic profile (DBLP) of researchers. Our experimental results show that our joint model outperforms state-of-the-art results that consider profile, content or network features only.

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