ENTITY MATCHING FOR INGESTED PROFILE DATA

摘要

Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums that utilize information ingested from publicly available network-based data sources to automatically suggest adding additional attributes to member profiles of a social networking service. Among other uses, this system allows for assisted member profile completion. The system ingests information from one or more publicly available network-based data sources (data sources that are different from the social networking service), creates information records that describe potential member profile attributes using that ingested data, identifies members of the social networking service that are associated with the information records using information in the information records and pre-existing member profile attributes, and then prompts one or more members to add the potential attributes to their profiles. The potential member profile attributes may be related to one or more member accomplishments.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
ingesting data from a network based data source by at least one of: scraping a publicly accessible web-page or utilizing an Application Programming Interface (API) of the network based data source; creating an information record describing a possible member profile attribute containing at least some of the ingested data, the information record structuring the at least some of the ingested data; matching the information record to a member profile corresponding to a member of a social networking service using a machine learned information model based upon one or more features computed using at least the member profile and the information record; and creating a graphical user interface descriptor, the graphical user interface descriptor including a user interface input element that allows the member to add the possible member profile attribute as an attribute in the member profile.