Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2015, Paris, France

EnTwine: Feature Analysis and Candidate Selection for Social User Identity Aggregation

Niyati Chhaya, Dhwanit Agarwal, Nikaash Puri, Paridhi Jain, Deepak Pai, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

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Organizations measure their social audience based
on the number of users, fans, and followers on social media. Every
social media platform has its user identity and a single user is
present across varied platforms. Due to the disconnected user
profiles, identifying duplicate users across media is non-trivial.
There is a need to create a complete view of a user for various
applications such as targeting and user profile construction. This
view is not easily available due to the individual identities. In this
work, we explore the feature space across social media that can
be leveraged for intelligent user identity aggregation. Further, we
present a two-phased unified identity creation process using our
feature analysis, unsupervised candidate selection, and supervised
user matching algorithms on four different social networks.