An NLP-based cross-document approach to narrative structure discovery

Structural similarities across narratives play an important role in many areas of humanities research. In this article, we describe a methodology and an implementation to uncover such similarities automatically in two application scenarios. In both scenarios—ritual and folktale studies—existing rese...

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Main Authors: Reiter, Nils (Author) , Frank, Anette (Author) , Hellwig, Oliver (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 01 October 2014
In: LLC
Year: 2014, Volume: 29, Issue: 4, Pages: 583-605
ISSN:1477-4615
DOI:10.1093/llc/fqu055
Online Access:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqu055
Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://academic.oup.com/dsh/article/29/4/583/983464
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Author Notes:Nils Reiter, Anette Frank, Oliver Hellwig

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