Whoever came up with the adage, “the law of the jungle”, seems not to have taken time to assess the behavior of the animals in relation to social and political governance as well as their application of the rule of law. The statement is meant to suggest that there is chaos and disorder in the forest so much so that things happen haphazardly. On the contrary, it is more apparent in most African ...

In this short paper we report on experiences gained from bachelor and master theses, and from a series of software projects conducted in cooperation with the Department of Computational Linguistics of the Saarland University. Those bachelor/master theses and software projects were dealing with the application of Natural Language Processing and Semantic Web technologies to the representation and...

We describe the usefulness of Wiktionary, the freely available web-based lexical resource, in providing multilingual extensions to catalogues that serve content-based indexing of folktales and related narratives. We develop conversion tools between Wiktionary and TEI, using ISO standards (LMF, MAF), to make such resources available to both the Digital Humanities community and the Language Resou...

While most natural language understanding systems rely on a pipeline-based architecture, certain human text interpretation methods are based on a cyclic process between the whole text and its parts: the hermeneutic circle. In the task of automatically identifying characters and their narrative roles, we propose a feedback-loop-based approach where the output of later modules of the pipeline is ...