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Building Family Trees With NooJ

Croatian language uses separate terms for each member in a family tree. These terms may differ among different geographical parts of Croatia as well. We will use NooJ to try and build a family tree by using syntactic grammars applied to the Croatian obituaries. Obituaries in Croatia have a recognizable form with few alternations. Its structure can be divided into four main sections (notice about the death, name of the deceased, date and place of the funeral, grieving family). For this project, sections two and four are of special interest as they can be used to build a family tree of living relatives of the deceased. The first task in the project is to recognize the deceased person since other relationships might differ depending of the gender of the deceased. Than a list of grieving family members, with or without their names (sometimes with a notation such as ‘the family of deceased brother/sister/…) is annotated, again, in some relationships differing on the gender of the name that follows the relationship type. So in an example djeca Nikola, Ana, Frano, Marija – children Nikola, Ana, Frano, Marija, each person is annotated as a <SON> or as a <DAUGHTER> depending on the gender of the name and not as a group <CHILDREN>. After the annotation process, an XML file is produced containing tags <FAMILY DECEASED=”Name” WIFE=”Name” SON=”Name” DAUGHTER=”Name” …>. From this file, a picture with drown relationships is generated using Python.

family tree, family relationships, kinship, local grammars, syntactic grammars, NooJ, Python

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