Teaching Tale Types to a Computer: A First Experiment with the Annotated Folktales Collection
Johan Eklund,
Josh Hagedorn,
Sándor Darányi
Abstract:Computational motif detection in folk narratives is an unresolved problem, partly because motifs are formally fluid, and because test collections to teach machine learning algorithms are not generally available or big enough to yield robust predictions for expert confirmation. As a result, standard tale typology based on texts as motif strings renders its computational reproduction an automatic classification exercise. In this brief communication, to report work in progress we use the Support Vector Machine al… Show more
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