Finding Trolls Under Bridges: Preliminary Work on a Motif Detector. (arXiv:2204.06085v1 [cs.AI])

Motifs are distinctive recurring elements found in folklore that have
significance as communicative devices in news, literature, press releases, and
propaganda. Motifs concisely imply a large constellation of culturally-relevant
information, and their broad usage suggests their cognitive importance as
touchstones of cultural knowledge, making their detection a worthy step toward
culturally-aware natural language processing tasks. Until now, folklorists and
others interested in motifs have only extracted motifs from narratives
manually. We present a preliminary report on the development of a …

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