Profile Matching in Heterogeneous Academic Social Networks using Knowledge Graphs

Document Type : Semantic Technology-Kahani

Authors

• Sahar Rezazadeh ¹
• Behshid Behkamal ²
• Havva Alizadeh ³
• Davood Rafiei ⁴

¹ Department of Engineering, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, Iran

² Department of Computer Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

³ Department of Computer Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad

⁴ Department of Computer Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

10.22067/cke.2023.84559.1104

Abstract

With the increasing popularity of academic social networks, many users join more than one network to benefit from their unique features. However, matching the profiles of a user, despite being crucial for data verification and update synchronization, is challenging due to the differences in profile structures across different networks. In this paper, we propose an academic profile-matching approach that utilizes an Academic Knowledge Graph (AKG) to overcome the diversity problem in profile structures. Our approach includes three components: (1) candidate profile generation, which retrieves related profiles from the target network based on name similarity to the source profile; (2) profile enrichment, which uses AKG to discover relations between the attributes of the source and target profiles; and (3) profile matching, which selects one candidate as a matched profile. Through experiments on real-world datasets, we demonstrate that the proposed approach is effective in matching academic profiles across different networks, outperforming state-of-the-art baselines.

Keywords

• Entity Matching
• Heterogeneity
• Academic Social Networks
• knowledge graph

Main Subjects

• Computer Science

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