Systems and methods for determining user attribute values by mining user network data and information

摘要

Systems and methods for determining one or more attributes and their associated values for a user, by mining the user's social network profiles. The systems and methods determine if the value of an attribute of interest for a user is specified on one or more social networking websites. If so, the systems and methods set the attribute value for the user to the specified attribute value. If not, the systems and methods retrieve, from the social networking websites, attribute values for the attribute of interest for friends of the user to form a group of possible attribute values for the user. The method, selects a value from the group of possible attribute values, and then sets the selected value as the attribute value for the user.

主权项

1. A method for determining a value of an attribute of a user, comprising:
a processor in the data processing system determining if the value of the attribute of interest for the user is specified on one or more social networking websites; responsive to a determination that the value of an attribute of the user is not specified, the processor obtaining, from the one or more social networking websites, attribute values for the attribute of interest for friends of the user to form a group of possible attribute values for the user, each of the possible attribute values associated with a concept; the processor assigning a weight to each of the possible attribute values based on a specificity of each of the possible attribute values, wherein the specificity is based on a number of words in each of the possible attribute values; the processor selecting a value from the group of possible attribute values based on the weight; and the processor setting the selected value as the value of the attribute for interest for the user.