Publication
Linguistic and Semantic Representation of the Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature
Thierry Declerck; Piroska Lendvai
In: Stefan Gradmann; Francesca Borri; Carlo Meghini; Heiko Schuldt (Hrsg.). Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries - International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL-2011), Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, September 26-28, Berlin, Germany, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), No. 6966, ISBN 978-3-642-24468-1, Springer, 9/2011.
Abstract
We present on-going work on the linguistic and semantic processing
of the labels of the Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature,
which has been proposed by Stith Thompson for the classification of narrative
elements in folk-literature. We automatically extracted the labels
of an on-line version of the Index, and wrote specialised grammars for
providing for a multi-layer linguistic annotation of them. We are currently
working on enriching the linguistically annotated labels with semantic
classes and relations, allowing for a better access to the content of
the Index. With this resource, we expect to be able to semi-automatically
annotate digitised literary works at the sub-document level by means of
automatically comparing the annotated Index with the results of text
processing tools applied to those works, and so contribute to a better
inter-textual interlinking and understanding of related works in the folkliterature,
offering a new way of semantically accessing digital libraries.