Publikation
Multilingual Ontologies for the Representation and Processing of Folktales
Thierry Declerck; Anastasija Aman; Martin Banzer; Dominik Macháček; Lisa Schäfer; Natalia Skachkova
In: Anca Dinu; Petya Osenova; Cristina Vertan (Hrsg.). Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language technology for Digital Humanities in Central and (South-)Eastern Europe. Workshop on Language Technology for Digital Humanities in Central and (South-)Eastern Europe (LT4DH-CEE-2017), located at RANLP 2017, September 8, Varna, Bulgaria, Pages 20-24, ISBN 978-954-452-046-5, INCOMA Ltd, Shoume, 9/2017.
Zusammenfassung
We describe work done in the field of folkloristics and consisting in creating ontologies based on well -established studies proposed by “classical”
folklorists. This work is supporting the availability of a
huge amount of digital and structured knowledge
on folktales to digital humanists. The ontological encoding of past and current motif - indexation and classification systems for folktales was in
the first step limited to English language data. This led us to focus on making those
newly generated formal knowledge sources available in a few more languages, like
German, Russian and Bulgarian. We stress the importance of achieving this
multilingual extension of our ontologies at a larger scale, in order for example to
support the automated analysis and classification of such narratives in a large
variety of languages, as those are getting more and more accessible on the Web.