This paper examines genre trends in the top 50 grossing films at the US box office each year from 1991 to 2010, focussing on the frequency and rank of different genres, the box office gross and release patterns of films in different genres, and the release profile of Hollywood studios. The results show a narrowing of the range of genres at the highest rankings, with fantasy/science fiction movi...

Graphs can be used in applied in both an unsupervised and supervised context that can augment classification tasks. This paper focuses on a set of movie graphs that correspond to actor interactions in movies associated with various genres. I first compare the graph statistics between two disparate genres and perform random walks and analyze the eigenvalue and eigenvectors of the adjacency matri...

Introduction. Text genres used by so-called information organizers in the processes of information organization in information systems were explored in this research. Method. The research employed text genre socio-functional analysis. Five genre groups in information organization were distinguished. Every genre group used in information organization is described. Empirical evidence for genre gr...

As analytical categories, genres have traditionally occupied a middle ground – between media as technologies and institutions, on the one hand, and discourses as material and modal forms of expression and interaction, on the other. With digitalization, the very concept of genre is in doubt: is the world wide web, Facebook, or the writing on its walls the genre? This article situat es genre in r...

The wider question of this study is the suitability of existing Web search engines for the needs of school education. It examines the relevance to the teaching objectives of the results returned by the search process given a query and its (stated or unstated) purpose in the context of an educational activity. The particular field of teaching and research interest is Modern Greek in Cypriot seco...

In organisation schemes, musical artists are commonly identified with a unique ‘genre’ label attached, even when they have affinity to multiple genres. To uncover this hidden cultural awareness about multi-genre affinity, we present a new model based on the analysis of the way in which a community of users organise artists and genres in playlists. Our work is based on a novel dataset that we ha...

Detecting artists that can be considered as prototypes for particular genres or styles of music is an interesting task. In this paper, we present an approach that ranks artists according to their prototypicality. To calculate such a ranking, we use asymmetric similarity matrices obtained via co-occurrence analysis of artist names on web pages. We demonstrate our approach on a data set containin...

The continuity between the romance and novel genres has been undermined since latter's emergence in eighteenth century despite conceptual confusion regarding these at time. Many critics de-contextualize as if it came into being merely a reaction to through complete break with former literary genres, hence fail see its many connections terms of structure content. Though we have today made more o...

Speech can be divided into discourse genres based on the contextual environment it occurs in (e.g. political speech, sport commentary speech, etc.). The present study investigated whether listeners can distinguish between speech from different discourse genres on the basis of acoustic prosodic cues only . In a perception experiment with delexicalized speech 70 listeners with varying experience ...

A dynamic relationship exists between a film/series and the viewer, genres have an essential place in this relationship. Significantly, experience of watching films television series, which is gradually changing, also provides more detail regarding Since COVID-19 pandemic 2020, viewing has changed, primarily through digital platforms. However, viewer's tendency to use platforms specific data. I...