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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a methodology for automatic annotation of a multimedia collection of intangible cultural heritage mostly in the form of interviews. Assigned annotations provide a way to search the collection. Design/methodology/approach Annotation is based on automatic extraction of metadata and is conducted by named entity and topic extraction from textual descriptions with a rule-based approach supported by vocabulary resources, a compiled domain-specific classification scheme and domain-oriented corpus analysis. Findings The proposed methodology for automatic annotation of a collection of intangible cultural heritage, applied on the cultural heritage of the Balkans, has very good results according to F measure, which is 0.87 for the named entity and 0.90 for topic annotation. The overall methodology enables encapsulating domain-specific and language-specific knowledge into collections of finite state transducers and allows further improvements. Originality/value Although cultural heritage has a significant role in the development of identity of a group or an individual, it is one of those specific domains that have not yet been fully explored in case of many languages. A methodology is proposed that can be used for incorporating natural language processing techniques into digital libraries of cultural heritage.

The paper aims to explore the genre specifics of the novel Counting-out Rhyme, Octopus-Story written by Laslo Blašković, as well as the semantic layers that were activated in this manner. By accepting the traditional genre of the novel, which was transformed in the direction of a counting-out rhyme and octopus-story, the novel is constructed as a formally unique, subjective literary expression. Building its narrative flow upon the destinies of different personalities, who built seemingly independent stories, the novel Counting-out Rhyme develops the idea of a single story. With each new destiny, the story gets its variant, so the figure of the octopus will become a metaphor of literature in the most general sense. The story, having lost its meaning due to countless repetitions, like a counting-out rhyme, will become a structure of sound and scream, while the need for narration will become a principle of self-preservation.