Scott Malec


2010

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Integration of Linguistic Markup into Semantic Models of Folk Narratives: The Fairy Tale Use Case
Piroska Lendvai | Thierry Declerck | Sándor Darányi | Pablo Gervás | Raquel Hervás | Scott Malec | Federico Peinado
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)

Propp's influential structural analysis of fairy tales created a powerful schema for representing storylines in terms of character functions, which is directly exploitable for computational semantic analysis, and procedural generation of stories of this genre. We tackle two resources that draw on the Proppian model - one formalizes it as a semantic markup scheme and the other as an ontology -, both lacking linguistic phenomena explicitly represented in them. The need for integrating linguistic information into structured semantic resources is motivated by the emergence of suitable standards that facilitate this, as well as the benefits such joint representation would create for transdisciplinary research across Digital Humanities, Computational Linguistics, and Artificial Intelligence.