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2012 In recent years, researchers have pointed out that individuals understand their lives to a great extent through narratives and narration. In the fi eld of adult education this idea has been taken up in the concept of biographical learning, suggesting the crucial role of autobiographical refl ection and autobiographical storytelling in adults’ learning. This thesis discusses the concept of ...

The rapid growth of information sources brings a unique challenge to biographical information extraction: how to find specific facts without having to read all the words. An effective solution is to follow the human scanning strategy which keeps a specific keyword in mind and searches within a specific scope. In this paper, we mimic a scanning process to extract biographical facts. We use event...