The notion of “downwards causation” is an old acquaintance in the humanities, for example in the notion of the hermeneutic circle, where textual parts and wholes mutually influence each other’s interpretation. The phenomenon of genres is chosen as a possible example of downwards causation (genre constraints). A computer model is constructed on the basis of genre theory and run under various con...

Based on Relevance Theory proposed by Sperber and Wilson, this research explores genres at multiple levels and its influence on expectations of relevance in interpreting the space particular details occur and in comprehending particular details, and navigation patterns directed by expectations of relevance. It proposes a conceptual model of genre-assisted navigation through web documents for pa...

The game genre is an important feature for organizing, accessing and developing video games; however the choice of the genre during the process of video games making requires expertise and thorough study which can sometimes lead to unexpected issues due to the bad choice that can affect the final result. In this paper, we will present the application of analytic hierarchical process method “AHP...

Rhetoricians since Aristotle have attempted to classify communications or documents into categories or “genres” with similar form, topic or purpose. This article surveys research on genre as it relates to Internet documents. The article briefly presents the concept of genre in general, and then reviews the evolution and emergence of genres on the Internet. It concludes with an examination of th...

This paper provides an overview of the AcousticBrainz Genre Task organized as part of theMediaEval 2017 Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation. The task is focused on content-based music genre recognition using genre annotations from multiple sources and large-scale music features data available in the AcousticBrainz database. The goal of our task is to explore how the same music pie...

This paper explores how electronic health record (EHR) systems have introduced a new genre for physicians to use (a genre we refer to as check-list) that is used in addition to their traditional narrative genre as part of a single patient health record. Our analysis suggests that it is because the overlap between these two genres is created and used interdependently that breakdowns occur in the...

The owners of social networks and researchers who are interested in text information processing recognize and use genre to identify network resource and participating in mutually understood communicative acts. Many studies have shown that, the genre can improve the ability to access resource in the information pool, such as music and book community. Some linguists describe genre as a distinctiv...

Based on a contrastive approach that compares the argumentative genre of editorial with the narrative genre of personal narrative across two production modes, single-authored data and data elicited in an editing-based task, this paper examines the impact of genre on the realizations of discourse relations, paying particular attention to the argumentative genre and its preferential realizations ...

In this project automatic genre classification problem will be studied and a new system for music genre will be developed. This paper focuses on impact of features on music genre classification task. The following genres are used in this project: Jazz, Metal, Hip-Hop, Classical and Disco, Reggae, Country, Pop. It is found that 3 features out of 26 performs better in genre classification task.

Genre definition and attribution is generally considered to be subjective. This makes evaluation of any genrelabelling system intrinsically difficult, as the ground-truth against which it is compared is based upon subjective responses, with little inter-participant consensus. This paper presents a novel method of analysing the results of a genre-labelling task, and demonstrates that there are g...