The present paper describes a case-based reasoning solution for solving the task of selecting adequate templates for realizing messages describing actions in a given domain. This solution involves ...the construction of a case base from a corpus of example texts, using information from WordNet to group related verbs together. A case retrieval net is used as a memory model. A taxonomy of the concepts involved in the texts is used to compute similarity between concepts. The set of data to be converted into text acts as a query to the system. The process of solving a given query may involve several retrieval processes – to obtain a set of cases that together constitute a good solution for transcribing the data in the query as text messages – and a process of knowledge-intensive adaptation which resorts to a knowledge base to identify appropriate substitutions and completions for the concepts that appear in the cases, using the query as a source. We describe this case-based solution, and we present examples of how it solves the task of selecting an appropriate set of templates to render a given set of data as text.
Liliam comes from Guatemala and is vacationing in Ludwigsburg. In addition to Ludwigsburg Palace, she visits the fairy tale garden and the film academy.
Olle + björn = sant Eva Söderberg
Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap,
01/2009, Letnik:
39, Številka:
1
Journal Article
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Children, bears and childhood discourses This essay discusses texts that consider the meeting between children and bears. It looks at both meetings between two real individuals and the meetings ...between the child and the bear within one and the same individual, resulting in the teddy bear, and the clothed and talking bears of children’s literature. These themes are studied in their historical context and analyzed with respect to the literary intertext and different childhood discourses. The introduction provides a short presentation of the term »discourse« and how it is used as an analytical tool within research into the culture of children. After presenting Hansen’s »Little Alvhilde« from 1829 and von Braun’s poem »Strong in his Innocence« from 1851 – supposedly based on a real event - Tegnér’s song »Mother’s little Olle« from 1895 is analyzed with respect to its predecessors. The analysis shows how the discourse »the innocent child« takes its form even here, but also how Tegnér develops the »childish« perspective and the tonal and rhythmic qualities of the text, as well as the portrayal of the bear. This portrayal is less frightening in Tegnér’s song, probably because the fear of bears had begun to decrease, and the Romantic Era’s idealized view of childhood had also begun to influence the view of the bear. That section is followed by a discussion of the meeting between girls and bears in general, and in particular the meeting of Bella and the bear in Nyblom’s story »An Innocent’s Wandering« from 1912. We see how the same view of childhood, the innocent child, lives on but is also broadened to take in the discourse of the free child. The next section looks at, among other issues, how a story like »Goldilocks and the Three Bears« changes along with a changing view of the real bear as a threat, and the growth of the teddy bear »industry« from around 1900 and onward. The essay concludes with an analysis of how the teddy bear and the theme of Olle and the bear are used and understood during the opening years of the 21st century.
This paper discusses continuous influence of the Romanticism' ideas all until the present time. The ideas about the golden age in the past, on an ideal society based on class, gender, and ...generational hierarchy were dominant in the children' education until the second part of the 20th century. This was influenced, in turn, by fairy tales created in the 19th century, which are taken even today, to be the most appropriate children' literature. The flow-literary production of novels with fairy tales content, where the plot is taken place in some fictional, fairy-like world during the second part of the 20th century, corresponds hence to the need of adult audience/readers: a basic need for dream fulfillment about the roles of romantic heroes who do not exist in a real life. At the same time, the existing negation of modernization and introduction of new technologies corresponds nicely with the fears generated by accelerated changes, as one of the key attributes of the contemporary world. Deconstruction of the romanticized narratives begins in the framework of the postmodern fantasy literature, since the 1980's. This perspective reflects new possibilities for perceiving and estimation of the objective social reality of the Western civilization.
This paper presents various perspectives in studying cultural universal patterns. The focus is placed on the examples drawn from Serbian sources/culture, accentuating myth and tale texts, contrasting ...and comparing them with Serbian rituals and other cultural phenomena. In this sense, I have chosen to analyze one of the most famous and most complex Serbian tales known as 'Bas Celik', which illustrates formations of the specific structural patterns on a synchronic level. This research also allows studying communication possibilities, that is, transmission and creation of identical contents/information. My previous research on the subject, as well as this one, has allowed a hypothesis based on the presence of identical or similar contents and structures within dreams and tales, as well in folk beliefs. It has become clear that these motives do not represent a direct borrowing but were created independently regardless of the actual contents of particular dreams and tales. This could also be applied to the presence of specific symmetrical and harmoniously organized structural models in myths and rituals. A good example is an appearance of 19 structural patterns which characterize universal frame, i.e., as features of different cultural and natural phenomena. Taking all said into account, it could be argued that the understanding of this particular phenomenon requires an idea of connection of the mind and substance within a unique field that does not recognize spatial and timely limitations, corresponding thus to Levi-Strauss and Jungian models of understandings, in analyzing cultural phenomena and reality.
Although a number of Brontë scholars have studied the many similarities between Jane Eyre and fairy tales such as Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, one significant difference between the novel and ...its fairy-tale influences is Jane's physical plainness. This essay examines Jane's appearance specifically as a contrast to fairy-tale heroines such as Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont's Beauty in her version of 'Beauty and the Beast'. As a contrast to the fairy-tale beauties invoked throughout the novel, Jane's plainness takes on the dimension of social critique. This essay demonstrates, through an examination of the significance of female beauty in Charlotte Brontë's juvenilia and in nineteenth-century renditions of Beauty and the Beast, that Charlotte uses plainness and beauty to condemn an upper-class system of values which, by emphasizing the importance of a woman's appearance, limited her ability to develop selfhood and achieve autonomous action.
In this work I try to establish, by analyzing texts about basketball player Vlade Divac, in what way sport press is representing famous individual sport personalities, as well as strategies with ...which media is representing but also socially constructs specific identification practices, primarily those connected with the concept of national identity. In doing that, I am starting from the fact that professional sportsmen represent typical example of "transnational citizens and global businessmen who simultaneously inhabit both national and transnational space", but at the same time, consciously and seemingly paradoxically can serve as "national cultural icons in the function of forming and reaffirming national identities". Analyzed details from media presentations of Vlade Divca point out that the smallest common denominator that brought to the basketball player such status is the "proven patriotism". The picture being formed about him represents a series of preferred national characteristics, a quintessence of "Serbian people", thanks to which or even in spite of that, he succeeds to overcome, in the perception here, not too positively co notated America. Also, I am trying to point out how media story about well known basketball player has a structure of transitional fairy tale in which Divac is playing the role of "hero" of the still unfinished transition in Serbia.
The King's Speech Palmer, James
Jung journal,
04/2012, Letnik:
6, Številka:
2
Journal Article
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My interest in The King's Speech is not as biopic but as a careful examination of the psychological drama embedded in the narrative, including the competing views about the causes of Prince Albert's ...stuttering--a solely physical impairment or the consequence of psychological trauma-- and the nature of Lionel Logue's treatment. Logue's patient questions, his shrewd listening, and his acceptance of the projections, rejections, and transferences of his royal patient are all traits of an accomplished psychoanalyst. In Jungian terms, the prince lacks a way to confront the shadow of his abusive childhood. Lionel, as a commoner, provides an ideal shadow figure for Bertie and also a confidante whose candor and trust can establish the persona Bertie so desperately needs. The film engages us in a Jungian world of complexes, active imagination, and the importance of the anima. Finally, as an embodiment of the transcendent function, the film earns its triumphant ending. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
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