Nature allows human beings to become stewards and interface with animals. By acting as the cornerstone, create meanings their existence through experiences animals other elements of nature. Folktales are not only mere stories people but that didactic in seek promote collective knowledge well serve guide directing improve relationship However, scholarship on how folktales handled nature environm...

Folktales is considered as a representation of our local cultural that plays an important role in delivering image and identity society. Preserving folktales crucial to avoid from being forgotten or fade away, especially this modern era where may face difficulties adapting the In current society, Malaysian particularly lack awareness regarding traditional folktales. The development technologies...

We compare click production in fluent speech to previously analyzed clear productions in the Namibian Kx’a language Mangetti Dune !Xung. Using a rule-based software system, we extract clicks from recorded folktales, with click detection accuracy about 65% f-score for one storyteller, reducing manual annotation time by two thirds; we believe similar methods will be effective for other loud, shor...

We present on-going work on the automated ontology-based detection and recognition of characters in folktales, restricting ourselves for the time being to the analysis of referential nominal phrases occurring in such texts. Focus of the presently reported work was to investigate the interaction between an ontology and linguistic analysis of indefinite and indefinite nominal phrase for both the ...

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...

Narrative structure is an ubiquitous and intriguing phenomenon. By virtue of structure we recognize the presence of Villainy or Revenge in a story, even if that word is not actually present in the text. Narrative structure is an anvil for forging new artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques, and is a window into abstraction and conceptual learning as well as into culture and its ...

the present study was an attempt to add to the understanding of gendered content in Persian folklore stories for children. A deductive content analysis was performed to identify and record gender representation in titles, central roles, and the total number of characters. Traditionally feminine and masculine stereotypes were also investigated based on a coding scheme. The sample included 50 pop...