Data analysis of four hundred versions of Little Red Riding Hood
Tuesday, July 5, 2016 - 08:31
in Mathematics & Economics
A computer analysis of the texts of more than 400 Dutch versions of Little Red Riding Hood from the 18th century up to now provides more insight into the evolution of this fairy tale. The computational ethnologist Folgert Karsdorp and the language technologist Antal van den Bosch of Radboud University studied the story and the way in which the various versions form a network with one another.