@inproceedings{8b5bfa1feec04df9a519c1fb182e31ca,
title = "Automatic classification of folk narrative genres",
abstract = "Folk narratives are a valuable resource for humanities and social science researchers. This paper focuses on automatically recognizing folk narrative genres, such as urban legends, fairy tales, jokes and riddles. We explore the effectiveness of lexical, structural, stylistic and domain specific features. We find that it is possible to obtain a good performance using only shallow features. As dataset for our experiments we used the Dutch Folktale database, containing narratives from the 16th century until now.",
keywords = "EWI-22481, text, folktales, METIS-296138, IR-83406, Classification, genre",
author = "Dong-Phuong Nguyen and Trieschnigg, {Rudolf Berend} and Theo Meder and Mariet Theune",
note = "Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: 11th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS), LThist 2012: First International Workshop on Language Technology for Historical Text(s); 11th Conference on Natural Language Processing, KONVENS 2012 (LThist 2012 workshop) ; Conference date: 21-09-2012 Through 21-09-2012",
year = "2012",
month = sep,
day = "21",
language = "Undefined",
isbn = "3-85027-005-X",
series = "Scientific series of the {\"O}GAI",
publisher = "{\"O}GAI",
pages = "378--382",
editor = "J. Jancsary",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Natural Language Processing, KONVENS 2012 (LThist 2012 workshop)",
}