随着各种在线社区呈现出爆炸性的发展,网络中已经积累了大量的用户信息,这些用户信息已经成为了社会计算相关研究和应用的宝贵的数据资源。由于各种社区在功能和主题上的不同,用户的信息碎片化地散布在不同的社区中,这为获取用户完整信息以及跨社区的研究等都带来了挑战。用户链指技术是解决用户信息跨社区问题的关键。本文分析和总结了近些年用户链指技术相关的研究与工作,剖析了各个工作的优势和局限,并对其它领域的相关研究进一步作了综合的分类与比较。
With the development of various online communities, there is a huge amount of user information cumulated on the web. The user information is the basis for the research and applications of social science. Since different communities are various in terms of functions and topics, all different aspects of user information are distributed in different communities, which makes it challenging to acquire the complete user information and conduct cross - community research. The technologies of user linking are the keys to address the cross - community problem of user information. This paper introduces the state - of - the - art user linking technologies, analyzes the advantages and limitations of each method, and conducts categorization and comparison of the related work in other research areas.