Mexican Folk Tales

Toward Automatic Role Identification in Unannotated Folk Tales

This paper presents an approach for automatically identifying high-level narrative structure information, particularly character roles, from unannotated folk tales. We introduce a new representation called action matrices to encode Propp’s narrative theory on character role and their “sphere of action.” We tested our approach in a fully automated system (Voz) using a corpus of 10 folk tales. Ou...

EmoTales: creating a corpus of folk tales with emotional annotations

Emotions are inherent to any human activity, including human– computer interactions, and that is the reason why recognizing emotions expressed in natural language is becoming a key feature for the design of more natural user interfaces. In order to obtain useful corpora for this purpose, the manual classification of texts according to their emotional content has been the technique most commonly...

The Role of Ethics in Cognition and Sociological Analysis of Traditional Oral Tales (Folk Tales) of Isfahan Province Popular Culture

Background: Isfahan, with a history of several thousand years, is a unique treasure of folklore and culture, and oral stories among its people are one of the oldest examples of thinking and imagination of the people of this province, which shows their quality and mental issues and sorrow. It is a valid and useful document of the social history of these people. This study aims to investigate the...

the morphology of marriage in folk tales depend on "mashdi galin qanoom tales

family is one of the most important kernels of society that was noteworthy in all ages and marriage as the most essential step in the formation of this kernel has a special place among all generations. finding a partner who causes feeling fortune and happiness is most highlighted human's dream that man try to fulfill. the need for peace and prosperity in folk literature has a wide appearan...

Curanderismo: a picture of Mexican-American folk healing.