Author Archives: Mariet Theune

Sagenjager launched

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The day before World Storytelling Day (20 March), FACT launched the Sagenjager (Eng. ‘Storyhunter’), a mobile website where you can plan a walking or cycling route past local stories and legends in the region Waterland, north of Amsterdam. The Sagenjager … Continue reading

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CATCH meeting by FACT

Friday 13 December 2013, Meertens Institute (registration is closed) Sponsored by NWO CATCH Theme: Patterns in Narrative Texts Many a collection of Cultural Heritage Institutions consists mainly of historical and contemporary texts. To extract information from such large corpora, various … Continue reading

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Conference visits: ISFNR (Vilnius, Lithuania) and SIEF (Tartu, Estonia)

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At the conference of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR) in Vilnius, Lithuania, Theo Meder organized a panel called ‘Folk Narrative in the Modern World: Computers and the Internet’ on Wednesday, June 25th, 2013. The panel was divided … Continue reading

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Twitter research in New York Times

International press attention for FACT-related research on automatically determining a person’s age and gender based on their tweets: English: New York Times – New Scientist – United Press International Dutch: UT Nieuws – Twittermania – Volkskrant The original research paper, … Continue reading

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Two FACT presentations at CLIN 2013

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On 18 January 2013, two FACT presentations were given at the 23rd Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN 2013). Dong Nguyen gaveĀ  a talk on “Folktale Classification Using Learning to Rank” and Dolf Trieschnigg presented a poster on … Continue reading

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