Predictive team formation analysis via feature representation learning on social networks

Lo Pang Yun Ting, Cheng Te Li, Kun Ta Chuang

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Abstract

Team formation is to find a group of experts covering required skills and well collaborating together. Existing studies suffer from two defects: cannot afford flexible designation of team members and do not consider whether the formed team is truly adopted in practice. In this paper, we propose the Predictive Team Formation (PTF) problem. PTF provides the flexibility of designated members and delivers the prediction-based formulation to compose the team. We propose two methods by learning the feature representations of experts based on node2vec [4]. One is Biased-n2v that models the topic bias of each expert in the social network. The other is Guided-n2v that refines the transition probabilities between skills and experts to guide the random walk in a heterogeneous graph of expert-expert, expert-skill, and skill-skill. Experiments conducted on DBLP and IMDb datasets exhibit that our methods can significantly outperform the state-of-the-art optimization-based approaches in terms of prediction recall. We also reveal that the designated members with tight social connections can lead to better performance.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - 22nd Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2018, Proceedings
EditorsGeoffrey I. Webb, Dinh Phung, Mohadeseh Ganji, Lida Rashidi, Vincent S. Tseng, Bao Ho
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages790-802
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783319930398
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Event22nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2018 - Melbourne, Australia
Duration: 2018 Jun 32018 Jun 6

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10939 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other22nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2018
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityMelbourne
Period18-06-0318-06-06

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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