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Computational folkloristics

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A searchable meta-graph can connect even troublesome house elves and other supernatural beings to scholarly folk categories.

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          Communications of the ACM  Volume 55, Issue 7
          July 2012
          120 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/2209249
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