Query embedding learning for context-based social search

Yi Chun Chen, Yu Che Tsai, Cheng Te Li

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Abstract

Recommending individuals through keywords is an essential and common search task in online social platforms such as Facebook and LinkedIn. However, it is often that one has only the impression about the desired targets, depicted by labels of social contexts (e.g. gender, interests, skills, visited locations, employment, etc). Assume each user is associated a set of labels, we propose a novel task, Search by Social Contexts (SSC), in online social networks. SSC is a kind of query-based people recommendation, recommending the desired target based on a set of user-specified query labels. We develop the method Social Query Embedding Learning (SQEL) to deal with SSC. SQEL aims to learn the feature representation (i.e., embedding vector) of the query, along with user feature vectors derived from graph embedding, and use the learned query vectors to find the targets via similarity. Experiments conducted on Facebook and Twitter datasets exhibit satisfying accuracy and encourage more advanced efforts on search by social contexts.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCIKM 2019 - Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages2441-2444
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781450369763
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019 Nov 3
Event28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2019 - Beijing, China
Duration: 2019 Nov 32019 Nov 7

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Conference

Conference28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period19-11-0319-11-07

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Decision Sciences
  • General Business,Management and Accounting

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