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CS-RAD: Conditional Member Status Refinement and Ability Discovery for Social Network Applications

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In a social network environment, member status represents a member's social value in the network. A member's abilities represent the potential of a member projecting his/her social values to others, and also represent the level of credibility and authority for a member to hold certain status. Therefore, the concepts of status and ability are deeply related, and should be consistent with each other. In this paper, we establish the consistency models among different member status and their abilities through analyzing member data and integrating domain knowledge. We use these models to help our members refine their inconsistent status, at the same time, identify ability gaps. To reliably refine a member status, we introduce a practical and human-in-the-loop methodology to build status hierarchy. Conditioned on the hierarchical structure, our modeling process exploits the associations between status and abilities. We applied the technique to LinkedIn member titles -- one of the major types of the member status, and member skills -- the main ability representations at LinkedIn. We showed that our models are intuitive and perform well. The skill gaps identified are actionable and concise. In this paper, we also discuss the aspects of building such systems, and how we could deploy the models in production.

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This is the video presentation for KDD 2022 paper: CS-RAD: Conditional Member Status Refinement and Ability Discovery for Social Network Applications. In this presentation, Yiming Ma (the author) will focus mainly on the motivations and the key modeling methodologies of this research. Member status and abilities are 2 interconnected concepts that form the core representations of a member in a social network. When these 2 concepts are not aligned or mismatched, our members may not be able to fully utilize the potentials of a social network to advance their social status. In this video presentation, Yiming will focus on Title and Skills "the major status and abilities at LinkedIn" to illustrate the approaches to refine titles to better alternatives, and to discover the gaps in the skills and potentially recommend these missing skills to our members. Yiming will also discuss some of experiences in developing this prototype with real-life data and exciting results from CS-RAD.

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KDD '22: Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
August 2022
5033 pages
ISBN:9781450393850
DOI:10.1145/3534678
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  1. knowledge representation
  2. ontology
  3. social networks
  4. statistical modeling
  5. taxonomy
  6. user modeling

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