The present study examines perceived prosodic highlights in three genres of fluent continuous Mandarin to test (1) whether prosodic highlights are genre related, (2) how they interact with discourse structure, (3) how they signal information status, (4) whether systematic acoustic patterns could be obtained from speech data analysis, and (5) whether prosodic highlights is layered over to discou...

Recently a large amount of new chord annotations have been made available. This raises hopes for further development in automatic chord estimation. While more data seems to imply better performance, a major challenge however, is the wide variety of genres covered by these new data. As a result, the genre-independent training scheme as is common today is bound to fail. In this paper we investiga...

In this paper I describe a genre analysis for on-line newspapers, revealing how their mediating form affect news related activities. A repertoire of elements was developed during the analysis of three on-line newspapers, to describe them. It is a repertoire of content, information structure and interaction elements together with with a repertoire of mediationg roles. The analysis in terms of th...

This paper discusses an approach for the feature extraction for audio genre classification and many other tasks of music information retrieval (MIR). Many musical genres are characterized not only by timbral information but also by temporal features such as rhythm patterns and bass-line patterns. In particular, modern music pieces mostly have certain fixed rhythm and bass-line patterns per genr...

Dependence on information, including for some of the world’s largest organisations such as governments and multi-national corporations, has grown rapidly in recent years. However, reports of information security breaches and their associated consequences continue to indicate that attacks are still escalating on organisations when conducting these information-based activities. Clearly, more rese...

Musical genres are categorical descriptions that are used to describe music. They are commonly used to structure the increasing amounts of music available in digital form on the Web and are important for music information retrieval. Genre categorization for audio has traditionally been performed manually. A particular musical genre is characterized by statistical properties related to the instr...

Genres of spoken and written texts are being intensively studied from various angles, e.g., communication studies, discourse analysis, computational linguistics, without arriving at a generally accepted definition. Many corpora have been built to represent the language, but very few large corpora indicate genres, and when they do the typology of genres varies widely. For instance, the Brown cor...

This paper describes our participation in Genre Tagging Task of MediaEval 2011, which aims to predict the videos’ category label. We use bag-of-words approaches with different features derived from visual content and associated textual information. We perform different experiments in which different constellations in respect of single modalities, classification methods, visual features and thei...

Music genre meta-data is of paramount importance for the organization of music repositories. People use genre in a natural way when entering a music store or looking into music collections. Automatic genre classification has become a popular topic in music information retrieval research both with digital audio and symbolic data. This work focuses on the symbolic approach, bringing to music cogn...