We present a learning to rank approach to classify folktales, such as fairy tales and urban legends, according to their story type, a concept that is widely used by folktale researchers to organize and classify folktales. A story type represents a collection of similar stories often with recurring plot and themes. Our work is guided by two frequently used story type classification schemes. Cont...

short story is one of the newborn literary genres that has drawn special attention of  literary men and researchers to itself in recent years because of its general effect on literature and its special influence on reader of a literary work. this article investigates short story comparatively in arabic and persian literature. the aim of this paper is to discover latent aspects of short story in...

We present ongoing research on the role of motifs in oral transmission of stories. We assume that motifs constitute the primary building blocks of stories. On the basis of a quantitative analysis we show that the level of motif annotation utilized in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther folktale type catalogue is well suited to analyze two genres of folktales in terms of motif sequences. However, for the o...

Folktale is the mirror of human being society that reflects people’s ways life. Among literary genres, Azerbaijani folktales play a significant role in Turkic-speaking communities. The Book Dede Korkut one oldest Turkic people. Additionally, gender equality most parts stories Korkut. Furthermore, men and women have prideful roles their tribe, positions women, are considered equal to men. This s...

In Toraja, Indonesia and England folktales bring important impact to the community. Indonesia, a folktale is used as medium of entertainment well teaching tool for children. These are told by grandparents, mother, father, or uncles their children grandchildren with aims educate, tell histories, give information about origin names places.This study understand how similarity differences between m...

jami’s baharestan is one of the most valuable persian literary works; it embodies a lot of fruitful stories and discourses, whose most sources are arabic. though one may find out from jami’s words that he has not used the literary works of his predecessors, an investigation on arabic sources may lead one to lots of background works of the stories of this book. in this paper, we have identified ...