Intelligent Search Engine for Belief Legends

Isebel提供对世界上三个最大的机器可操作民俗收藏的智能搜索和分析(荷兰民间故事数据库-Meerten Instituut，阿姆斯特丹，丹麦民间故事数据库-UCLA，以及梅克伦堡民俗数据库-WossiDiA，Rostock)，为大规模数据驱动的传统民间表现文化研究提供了机会。通过促进所有三个集合的搜索、发现和分析，Isebel为研究人员提供了一个前所未有的机会来发现目标语料库内和目标语料库之间的模式。这项拟议的研究聚焦于讲故事的人、传说以及(历史)信仰在魔术、巫术、闹鬼和超自然生物中的分散，试图揭示普通人相信什么，以及讲故事的传统和故事剧目在这三个领域有何不同。将民俗学建模为具有文化意义的传统表达形式在社交网络上和跨社交网络的动态循环，有助于对信仰的形成以及讲故事与产生这些故事的丰富文化背景之间的相关性提供新的见解。

ISEBEL provides intelligent search and analysis across three of the world slargest machine actionable folklore collections (Dutch Folktale Database-Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam, the Danish Folktale Database-UCLA, and the Mecklenburger Folklore Database-WossiDiA, Rostock) presenting the opportunity for large scale data-driven research into traditional folk expressive culture. By facilitating search, discovery and analysis across all three collections, ISEBEL provides researchers an unprecedented opportunity to discover patterns both within and across the target corpora. The proposed research, focusing on storytellers, legends and the dispersion of (historical) beliefs in magic, witchcraft, hauntings and supernaturalbeings seeks to reveal what ordinary people believed, and how storytelling traditions and story repertoires differed in and across these three areas. Modeling folklore as the dynamic circulation of culturally meaningful traditional expressive forms on and across social networks profers the possibility for new insights into the formation of belief and the correlations between storytelling and the rich cultural contexts in which those stories arise.