I-Corps: Automating People Research with Intelligent Analysis and Mining of Social Network Data on the Internet

拟议的工作是调查以前开发的大数据分析的有用性和可行性，以挖掘与人相关的信息，区分同名的人，汇总来自不同来源的信息，并推断与人相关的信息，如来自各种数据源的连接。最大的挑战是实体解析（有时也称为实体消歧或记录链接），其中相同的名称可能指代不同的真实的世界实体。例如，许多人甚至数百人被命名为“詹姆斯史密斯”。因此，哪些数据是相同的“詹姆斯史密斯”，可以合并和聚合在一起，这不是一个简单的问题。提出的解决方案旨在解决这个问题，并允许用户轻松快速地获得与智能手机或平板电脑上的目标人物相关的信息，而无需花费一到两个小时进行繁琐，容易出错的人物研究。互联网的革命提供了一个公开可用的信息海洋。这些信息的主要部分与人及其社交网络有关，这是有价值的有针对性的广告、销售、营销、扩大社交网络、招聘、求职等。人的信息是有价值的各种业务功能，如招聘，销售，业务发展等，根据主要的搜索引擎约三分之一的搜索是人的搜索。拟议的工作如果成功，可以将目前分散在许多数据源中的与人有关的信息汇集在一起，而不会出现名称模糊的问题。这项工作还可以使这些信息快速方便地帮助商务人士建立网络，使新的业务联系更加有效和高效。

The proposed work is to investigate the usefulness and feasibility of previously developed big data analysis on the problem of mining people-related information, differentiating people of the same name, aggregating information from different sources, and inferring people related information such as connections from various data sources. The biggest challenge is entity resolution (sometimes also referred to as entity disambiguation or record linkage), in which the same name may refer to different real world entities. For instances, many or even hundreds of people are named "James Smith". So which data is about the same "James Smith" and can be merged and aggregated together is not an easy question. The proposed solution aims to take on this problem and allow users to easily and quickly get information related to a target person on smartphones or tablets without spending one to two hours to do tedious, error-prone people research.The revolution of Internet has provided a sea of information publicly available. A major part of such information is related to people and their social networks, which are valuable targeted advertisement, sales, marketing, expanding social network, recruiting, job search, etc. Aggregating people-related information is not an easy task. People-information is valuable in various business functions such as recruiting, sales, business development, etc. According to major search engines about one third of search is people search. The proposed work, if successful, could bring people-related information that is currently scattered in many data sources, together without the issue of name ambiguity. This work may also make such information quickly and conveniently to assist business people in networking, making new business connections more effectively and efficiently.