Extracting Family Relationship Networks from Novels

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We present an approach to the extraction of family relations from literary narrative, which incorporates a technique for utterance attribution proposed recently by Elson and McKeown (2010).

• In our work this technique is used in combination with the detection of vocatives - the explicit forms of address used by the characters in a novel.
• We take advantage of the fact that certain vocatives indicate family relations between speakers.
• The extracted relations are then propagated using a set of rules.