Research on Building Family Networks Based on Bootstrapping and Coreference Resolution

Personal Family Network is an important component of social networks, therefore, it is of great importance of how to extract personal family relationships. We propose a novel method to construct personal families based on bootstrapping and coreference resolution on top of a search engine. It begins with seeds of personal relations to discover relational patterns in a bootstrapping fashion, then personal relations are further extracted via these learned patterns, finally family networks are fused using cross-document coreference resolution. The experimental results on a large-scale corpus of Gigaword show that, our method can build accurate family networks, thereby laying the foundation for social network analysis.