Detecting Multiple Motif Co-occurrences in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Tale Type Catalog: A Preliminary Survey

Darányi, Sándor and Forró, László Detecting Multiple Motif Co-occurrences in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Tale Type Catalog: A Preliminary Survey. Anales de Documentación, 2012, vol. 15, n. 1. [Journal article (Unpaginated)]

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English abstract

Catalogs project subject field experience onto a multidimensional map which is then converted to a hierarchical list. In the case of the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Tale Type Catalog (ATU), this subject field is the global pattern of tale content defining tale types as canonical motif sequences. To extract and visualize such a map, we considered ATU as a corpus and analysed two segments of it, “Supernatural adversaries” (types 300-399) in particular and “Tales of magic” (types 300-749) in general. The two corpora were scrutinized for multiple motif co-occurrences and visualized by two-mode clustering of a bag-of-motif co-occurrences matrix. Findings indicate the presence of canonical content units above motif level as well. The organization scheme of folk narratives utilizing motif sequences is reminiscent of nucleotid sequences in the genetic code.

Spanish abstract

Los catálogos proyectan la experiencia de áreas temáticas en un mapa multidimensional que posteriormente se convierte a una lista jerárquica. En el caso del Catalogo de Tipos de Cuentos Aarne-Thompson-Uther (ATU), esta área temática es el patrón global del contenido de un cuento, definiendo los tipos de cuentos como secuencias de motivos canónicos. Para extraer y visualizar dicha información como un mapa, se ha considerado el catálogo ATU como un catálogo de co-ocurrencias de motivos múltiples y visualizado como una agrupación bimodal a partir de una matriz de co-ocurrencias de contenedores de motivos. Los hallazgos indican la presencia de unidades de contenido canónicas por encima del nivel de los motivos. El esquema de organización de las narraciones populares utilizando secuencias de motivos es similar en su estructura, y por tanto recuerda, a las secuencias de nucleóticos en el código genético.

Item type:	Journal article (Unpaginated)
Keywords:	Tale type, Motif space, Motif co-occurrence, 2-mode clustering, Visualization
Subjects:	L. Information technology and library technology
Depositing user:	Anales de Documentación Revista
Date deposited:	14 Jun 2012
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:22
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/17107

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