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User Identification Based on Display Names Across Online Social Networks
- Source :
- IEEE Access, Vol 5, Pp 17342-17353 (2017)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- IEEE, 2017.
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Abstract
- User identification is very helpful for building a better profile of a user. Some works have been devoted to this issue. However, the existing works with a good performance are mainly based on the rich online data and do not consider the cost of online data acquisition. In this paper, we aim to address this issue with a lower cost of data acquisition. A machine learning-based solution is proposed solely based on the user's display names. It consists of three key steps: we first analyze the users' unique naming patterns that lead to information redundancies across sites; second, we construct features that exploit information redundancies; afterward, we employ machine learning method for user identification. The experiment shows that the proposed solution can provide excellent performance with F1 score reaching 96.24%, 92.49%, and 90.68% on three real different data sets, respectively. This paper shows the possibility of user identification with a lower cost of data acquisition.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 21693536
- Volume :
- 5
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- IEEE Access
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.3500fce63ce44f30add9f1ca3e9a5643
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2744646