Volga toponym "Shigali" (etymological and folklore subjects)

Bootstrapping Toponym Classifiers

We present minimally supervised methods for training and testing geographic name disambiguation (GND) systems. We train data-driven place name classifiers using toponyms already disambiguated in the training text — by such existing cues as “Nashville, Tenn.” or “Springfield, MA” — and test the system on texts where these cues have been stripped out and on hand-tagged historical texts. We experi...

Folklore, Folklorism, and Synchronization: Preserved-Created Folklore in Israel

Folklore and Medicine

Your education heretofore has been focused on the horizon which opens for the first time to-day, to fit you to receive training as entered apprentices of the mystery and art of clinical medicine and surgery. From now on you will come into contact with the raw material of our craft, the sick and suffering who seek relief within the walls of this hospital. It will be your duty and inestimable pri...

Sleep paralysis and folklore

Sleep paralysis is a relatively new term to describe what for hundreds of years many believed to be a visitation by a malevolent creature which attacked its victims as they slept. The first clinical description of sleep paralysis was published in 1664 in a Dutch physician's case histories, where it was referred to as, 'Incubus or the Night-Mare [sic]'. In 1977, it was discovered more than 100 p...

Thesauri, taxonomies and ontologies - an etymological note