Fine-grained Kinship Detection for Facebook Users based on Wall Contents

This paper investigates whether it is possible to automatically detect fine-grained kinship (not to detect its existence but to detect the type of kinship like child, father, grandfather, and so on) between two Facebook users or not. To do so, we present and employ a lexicon-based approach that completely depends on the wall contents of users. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study towards kinship detection for both the type of input data (i.e., free OSN text) and the language (i.e., Turkish). We perform our experiments on a crawled snapshot of public Facebook data collected from accounts of users in Turkey. Our results are promising and show that a content-based approach can be a good starting point for future works even though it has some challenges.