The paper presents the fourth, “Mondilex” edition of the MULTEXT-East language resources, a multilingual dataset for language engineering research and development, focused on the morphosyntactic level of linguistic description. This standardised and linked set of resources covers a large number of mainly Central and Eastern European languages and includes the EAGLES-based morphosyntactic specif...

Norwegian writer Henrik Ibsen and the Ukranian writer LesiaUkrainka have some common themes in their dramas, to name a few – emphasis is placed on the conflict between the individual and society as well as the place of the artist in society. This paper makes an attempt to compare and contrast the traits found in their heroines in a feminist perspective.

In this work we report on a transaction log analysis of the Dutch Folktale Database, an online repository of extensively annotated folktales ranging from old fairy tales to recent urban legends, written in (old) Dutch, Frisian and a variety of Dutch dialects. We observed that users have a preference for subgenres within folktales such as traditional legends and urban legends and prefer stories ...

The present study is part of a movement to safeguard Malay folktales as an unsung intangible cultural heritage (ICH). A folktale representation oral traditions and expressions. This converges on literary revitalised form folktales. As urged by UNESCO, the viability ICH achievable via scientific research, among other things. Therefore, considering small amount at moment, current endeavours exami...

persian dari is a language which has been used not only by the people of madain and western cities on the coast of arvand river but also by the people in eastern cities like balkh and marv . nevertheless most of the researchers of persian language or literature are trying to prove that dari has been a limited language or a dialect of persian belonged to some eastern districts of iran and it has...

With the undertake of various folktale digitalization initiatives, the need for computational aids to explore these collections is increasing. In this paper we compare Labeled LDA (L-LDA) to a simple retrieval model on the task of identifying motifs in folktales. We show that both methods are well able to successfully discriminate between relevant and irrelevant motifs. L-LDA represents motifs ...