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Folktale Classification using Learning to Rank Dong Nguyen, Dolf Trieschnigg, and Marit Theune University of Twente Folktales Fairy tales Riddles Legends Urban legends Jokes Etc.. Folktale researchers Folktales


  1. Folktale Classification using Learning to Rank Dong Nguyen, Dolf Trieschnigg, and Mariët Theune University of Twente

  2. Folktales • Fairy tales • Riddles • Legends • Urban legends • Jokes • Etc..

  3. Folktale researchers • Folktales are a resource to research – Variation in tales – Shifting moral values, beliefs, identities etc. – Intertextuality

  4. Classification systems • Folktale researchers have developed classification systems • To compare and analyze stories • To organize stories

  5. Classification systems • Folktale researchers have developed classification systems • To compare and analyze stories • To organize stories Story types ¡

  6. The Vanishing Hitchhiker (BRUN 01000) � � A ghostly or heavenly hitchhiker that vanishes � from a vehicle, sometimes after giving warning or prophecy. �

  7. A car driver picks up a hitchhiker. They talk about spiritual topics in life. � Suddenly the hitchhiker vanishes. The police tell � him they have heard the � story earlier that day. � The Vanishing Hitchhiker (BRUN 01000) � � A ghostly or heavenly hitchhiker that vanishes � from a vehicle, sometimes after giving warning or prophecy. �

  8. A car driver picks up a A guy bikes through the park � hitchhiker. They talk about at night. He encounters a � spiritual topics in life. � girl covered in blood. � Suddenly the hitchhiker On their way to the � vanishes. The police tell � police, she suddenly � him they have heard the � disappears. She resembles a story earlier that day. � murdered girl… � The Vanishing Hitchhiker (BRUN 01000) � � A ghostly or heavenly hitchhiker that vanishes � from a vehicle, sometimes after giving warning or prophecy. �

  9. A car driver picks up a A guy bikes through the park � hitchhiker. They talk about at night. He encounters a � spiritual topics in life. � girl covered in blood. � Suddenly the hitchhiker On their way to the � vanishes. The police tell � police, she suddenly � him they have heard the � disappears. She resembles a story earlier that day. � murdered girl… � The Vanishing Hitchhiker (BRUN 01000) � � A ghostly or heavenly hitchhiker that vanishes � from a vehicle, sometimes after giving warning or prophecy. � A car driver picks up a hitchhiker and borrows her � his sweater. When he stops � by to pick up the sweater, � he discovers she passed � away due to a car accident � a while ago. He finds � his sweater on her grave. �

  10. A car driver picks up a A guy bikes through the park � hitchhiker. They talk about at night. He encounters a � spiritual topics in life. � girl covered in blood. � Suddenly the hitchhiker On their way to the � vanishes. The police tell � police, she suddenly � him they have heard the � disappears. She resembles a story earlier that day. � murdered girl… � The Vanishing Hitchhiker (BRUN 01000) � � A ghostly or heavenly hitchhiker that vanishes � from a vehicle, sometimes after giving warning or prophecy. � A car driver picks up a A car driver picks up a girl hitchhiker and borrows her � wearing a white dress. He his sweater. When he stops � accidently spills red wine on by to pick up the sweater, � her dress. The next day � he discovers she passed � he finds out she died a � away due to a car accident � year ago. When the police open � a while ago. He finds � her grave, they find the white � his sweater on her grave. � dress with the red wine spot. �

  11. A car driver picks up a A guy bikes through the park � hitchhiker. They talk about at night. He encounters a � spiritual topics in life. � girl covered in blood. � Suddenly the hitchhiker On their way to the � vanishes. The police tell � police, she suddenly � him they have heard the � disappears. She resembles a story earlier that day. � murdered girl … � The Vanishing Hitchhiker (BRUN 01000) � � A ghostly or heavenly hitchhiker that vanishes � from a vehicle, sometimes after giving warning or prophecy. � A car driver picks up a A car driver picks up a girl hitchhiker and borrows her � wearing a white dress. He his sweater. When he stops � accidently spills red wine on by to pick up the sweater, � her dress. The next day � he discovers she passed � he finds out she died a � away due to a car accident � year ago . When the police open � a while ago. He finds � her grave, they find the white � his sweater on her grave. � dress with the red wine spot. �

  12. A car driver picks up a A guy bikes through the park � hitchhiker. They talk about at night. He encounters a � spiritual topics in life. � girl covered in blood. � Suddenly the hitchhiker On their way to the � vanishes. The police tell � police, she suddenly � him they have heard the � disappears. She resembles a story earlier that day. � murdered girl… � The Vanishing Hitchhiker (BRUN 01000) � � A ghostly or heavenly hitchhiker that vanishes � from a vehicle, sometimes after giving warning or prophecy. � A car driver picks up a A car driver picks up a girl hitchhiker and borrows her � wearing a white dress. He his sweater. When he stops � accidently spills red wine on by to pick up the sweater, � her dress. The next day � he discovers she passed � he finds out she died a � away due to a car accident � year ago. When the police open � a while ago. He finds � her grave, they find the white � his sweater on her grave. � dress with the red wine spot. �

  13. A car driver picks up a A guy bikes through the park � hitchhiker. They talk about at night. He encounters a � spiritual topics in life. � girl covered in blood. � Suddenly the hitchhiker On their way to the � vanishes. The police tell � police, she suddenly � him they have heard the � disappears. She resembles a story earlier that day. � murdered girl… � The Vanishing Hitchhiker (BRUN 01000) � � A ghostly or heavenly hitchhiker that vanishes � from a vehicle, sometimes after giving warning or prophecy. � A car driver picks up a A car driver picks up a girl hitchhiker and borrows her � wearing a white dress . He his sweater. When he stops � accidently spills red wine on by to pick up the sweater , � her dress. The next day � he discovers she passed � he finds out she died a � away due to a car accident � year ago. When the police open � a while ago. He finds � her grave, they find the white � his sweater on her grave. � dress with the red wine spot. �

  14. Story Type Indexes: ATU Aarne-­‑Thompson-­‑Uther ¡ ¡ classifica4on ¡system ¡(ATU) ¡ ¡ Red ¡Riding ¡Hood ¡ ¡(ATU ¡0333), ¡ ¡ The ¡Race ¡between ¡Hare ¡and ¡ Tortoise ¡ (ATU ¡0275A), ¡etc.

  15. Story Type Indexes: Brunvand Urban ¡legends ¡ ¡ The ¡Microwaved ¡Pet ¡(BRUN ¡02000), ¡ The ¡Kidney ¡Heist ¡(BRUN ¡06305), ¡ ¡ The ¡Killer ¡in ¡the ¡Backseat ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡(BRUN ¡01305), ¡ ¡ The ¡Vanishing ¡Hitchhiker ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡(BRUN ¡01000), ¡ etc.

  16. Automatic Identification of Story Types • Increasing digitalization • Discover relationships between stories

  17. Outline • Problem ¡descrip4on, ¡corpora ¡ • Experimental ¡setup ¡ – Baselines, ¡Learning ¡to ¡Rank ¡ ¡ • Results ¡ – Baselines, ¡Feature ¡analysis, ¡Error ¡analysis ¡ • Discussion/Conclusion ¡

  18. Goal and Evaluation Given an input story, return a ranking of story types 1 • Semi automatic setting ¡Reciprocal ¡Rank ¡(MRR) ¡ rank i ¡ • Classifica4on ¡ – Simula4ng ¡a ¡classifica4on ¡seRng. ¡The ¡highest ¡ranked ¡ label ¡is ¡then ¡taken ¡as ¡the ¡predicted ¡class. ¡ ¡ ¡A ccuracy

  19. Folktale database • Dutch Folktale Database (http://www.verhalenbank.nl) • Over 42.000 stories • In our experiments: only stories written in standard Dutch

  20. Dataset I Number of storytypes Number of storytypes 60 60 40 40 20 20 0 0 0 20 40 60 0 20 40 60 Number of stories Number of stories (a) ATU (b) Brunvand Fig. 1. Story type frequencies

  21. Dataset II Index ¡ Train ¡ Dev ¡ Test ¡ Nr ¡documents ¡ 400 ¡ ¡ 75 ¡ ¡ 25 ¡ 50 ¡ Nr ¡story ¡types ¡ 98 ¡ 59 ¡ ¡ 24 ¡ 43 ¡ ATU ¡ Index ¡ Train ¡ Dev ¡ Test ¡ Nr ¡documents ¡ 687 ¡ ¡ 175 ¡ 50 ¡ 75 ¡ Nr ¡story ¡types ¡ 125 ¡ ¡ 92 ¡ 40 ¡ 50 ¡ Brunvand ¡

  22. Baselines: big doc Input ¡document ¡(query) ¡ Vanishing ¡ Hitchiker ¡ ¡ Killer ¡in ¡the ¡ Backseat ¡ Microwaved ¡ ¡ Pet ¡ Ranking ¡ Killer ¡in ¡the ¡ Backseat ¡

  23. Baselines: small doc Input ¡document ¡(query) ¡ Vanishing ¡ Hitchiker ¡ Vanishing ¡ Hitchiker ¡ Microwaved ¡ Pet ¡ Killer ¡in ¡the ¡ Microwaved ¡ Backseat ¡ Pet ¡ Ranking ¡ Killer ¡in ¡the ¡ Backseat ¡ When ¡taking ¡the ¡top ¡ranked ¡label ¡as ¡the ¡class, ¡ ¡this ¡is ¡the ¡same ¡as ¡a ¡Nearest ¡Neighbour ¡classifier ¡(k=1). ¡ ¡

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