Multi-roles affiliation model for general user profiling

• Main Authors: LIAO, Lizi, HUANG, Heyan, WANG, Yashen
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: General user profiling; Multi-roles affiliation model; Social networks; Databases and Information Systems; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4385; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5388/viewcontent/Multi_rolesAffiliationModel_2015_afv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Online social networks release user attributes, which is important for many applications. Due to the sparsity of such user attributes online, many works focus on profiling user attributes automatically. However, in order to profile a specific user attribute, an unique model is built and such model usually does not fit other profiling tasks. In our work, we design a novel, flexible general user profiling model which naturally models users’ friendships with user attributes. Experiments show that our method simultaneously profile multiple attributes with better performance.