The application provides a WHO element extraction method in an English news scene, which comprises the following steps: cleaning and preprocessing data of network news, combining an article title, a lead and an article theme into one text data, and analyzing a
tree structure of the text data; extracting all nouns in all
noun phrases from a subtree of the text data
tree structure, screening core words, recalling a core word set, calculating a characteristic value of each core word, and extracting a first core word in a sorting result as a final core word; expanding the core word into a complete element text, traversing leaf nodes corresponding to the core word, and finding simple
sentence nodes in a parent node direction, connecting all texts from the simple
sentence nodes to the leaf nodes and then to intermediate links, and finally generating the element text; and the application realizes extraction of WHO elements on multiple news samples, has high accuracy, can improve a
recall rate of core words, and can expand a recall set.