"Modeling Propp and Levi-Strauss in a Meta-Symbolic Simulation System"

Introduction

While Yngve looked to Chomsky’s grammars as a starting point for his “Random English Sentence Generator,” Sheldon Klein based his text generator on the work of literary structuralists like Vladimir Propp and Claude Levi-Strauss. Klein and his research team at Carnegie Mellon were not interested in linguistic grammar like Yngve, but rather in “story grammar.” To explore this end, they created a folktale generator that produced 125 general myths that could be used to then generate more numerous stories. In the lower left-hand corner of the journal article displayed here, you can read one of the tales that their generator produced.

Additional Information

Label

"Modeling Propp and Levi-Strauss in a Meta-Symbolic Simulation System"

Author

Sheldon Klein et al.

Original Publication Date

1974

New Publication Date

1977

Publisher

Conference on Structure in Oral Literature Proceedings

Location

Butler Stacks

Case

7