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On The Evolving Transformation System Representation of Fairy Tales. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, July 2008, Pages: 132
This thesis presents an initial application of the Evolving Transformation System
(ETS) formalism to the structural representation of Russian fairy tales. This work
was motivated by the needs of information retrieval (IR) in general, but specifically
concentrates on proposing a new type of document representation. The new representation
is based on the temporal or constructive process of events that occur in the
mind of the generic fairy tale listener/reader.
Representing documents in this way yields several advantages to using ETS over
traditional IR techniques, such as being able to retrieve partial information from a
document (i.e. a single sentence or paragraph), fast searching by traversing the multilevel
hierarchial class structure generated by the ETS intelligent process, and locating
similar documents based on structural similarity rather than key words. Moreover, the
ETS formalism suggests an explanation for the mechanism behind plot anticipation
by an experienced reader as well as various levels of fairy tale conceptualization.
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