Our effort at developing computational models for African narratives, particularly those of Yorùbá folktales, is challenged by the diversity in concepts and methodologies in the discipline. This motivated us to pause and consider the various computational models of narratives in the literature. This is with a view to finding the most appropriate or otherwise adapt a closely related one for the ...

In this short demonstration paper we present different layers of annotation for folktales we have been working on and which are in the process of being integrated in one set of annotations, which is mediated by a formal representation of the annotation elements in an ontological framework. We list in this short text the various modules of this annotation scheme. A main result of this work has b...

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...