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Creating a Dead Poets Society: Extracting a Social Network of Historical Persons from the Web

Gijs GeleijnseContact Information and Jan KorstContact Information

(1)  Philips Research, High Tech Campus 34, 5656 AE Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Abstract
We present a simple method to extract information from search engine snippets. Although the techniques presented are domain independent, this work focuses on extracting biographical information of historical persons from multiple unstructured sources on the Web. We first similarly find a list of persons and their periods of life by querying the periods and scanning the retrieved snippets for person names. Subsequently, we find biographical information for the persons extracted. In order to get insight in the mutual relations among the persons identified, we create a social network using co-occurrences on the Web. Although we use uncontrolled and unstructured Web sources, the information extracted is reliable. Moreover we show that Web Information Extraction can be used to create both informative and enjoyable applications.

Contact Information Gijs Geleijnse
Email: gijs.geleijnse@philips.com

Contact Information Jan Korst
Email: jan.korst@philips.com
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