We employ a search engine SE to facilitate the extraction of related persons.
: • We directly extract related persons from q's context in its search results returned by SE (flow A); • Guided by distributional hypothesis (Harris, 1985), we mine q's related persons appearing in similar contexts (also collected from search results) with q (flow B); • In addition, we exploit the query logs of SE, and extract q's related persons that co-occur with q in the same queries (flow C).