Normalization of kinship relations to enrich family network analysis: case study on China biographical database.
Kinship is an important issue in history studies. The kinship database is the key resource to analyze the structure, succession, and evolution of families. However, one kinship could be expressed by different words, and one kinship word may be vague and ambiguous in natural languages, especially in...
| Publicado en: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 215 - 228 |
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Apr2024
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