The availability of semantically enriched data in repositories of larger content providers offers a means for new ways of multimedia presentation authoring. Existing (semi-)automatic content composition environments explore limited numbers of genres and concentrate on templatebased approaches for composing discourse structures for these genres. We analyze a number of genres based on identifiabl...

This white paper presents an initial taxonomy of generic strategies and conventions that have emerged from the past eight years of practice-based research in multimedia pedagogy at USC’s Institute for Multimedia Literacy. These genres emerged organically across a wide variety of courses and disciplines at the IML and have subsequently been incorporated into the curricula of the Honors in Multim...

i n t ro d u c t i o n Over the past 20 years, so much has been written on genre, so many astute analyses have been undertaken, so many important theoretical observations have been made (see, e., that it is challenging now to say something new that needs to be said, especially in the context of a volume dedicated to genre studies. It has been widely agreed for some time now that genres are not ...

This article presents a holistic approach to the study of genres in book publishing that includes formal aspects literary texts, marketing strategies and categorisations used by producers, perspectives on how these labels are perceived readers critics, as well temporal spatial understanding evolve. The empirical point departure is recent boom Nordic Noir, exemplified following three Swedish aut...

The lyrics of a song are an interesting, yet underused type of symbolic music data. We present SongWords, an application for tabletop computers that allows browsing and exploring a music collection based on its lyrics. SongWords can present the collection in a self-organizing map or sorted along different dimensions. Songs can be ordered by lyrics, user-generated tags or alphabetically by name,...

BACKGROUND Electronic health records (EHRs) are a rich resource for developing applications to engage patients and foster patient activation, thus holding a strong potential to enhance patient-centered care. Studies have shown that providing patients with access to their own EHR notes may improve the understanding of their own clinical conditions and treatments, leading to improved health care ...

this study was an attempt to identify the interlingual strategies employed to translate english subtitles into persian and to determine their frequency, as well. contrary to many countries, subtitling is a new field in iran. the study, a corpus-based, comparative, descriptive, non-judgmental analysis of an english-persian parallel corpus, comprised english audio scripts of five movies of differ...