Spectro-temporal modulations (STMs) of the sound convey timbre and rhythm information so that they are intuitively useful for automatic music genre classification. The STMs are usually extracted from a time-frequency representation of the acoustic signal. In this paper, we investigate the efficacy of two kinds of STM features, the Gabor features and the rate-scale (RS) features, selectively ext...

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...

short story is one of the newborn literary genres that has drawn special attention of  literary men and researchers to itself in recent years because of its general effect on literature and its special influence on reader of a literary work. this article investigates short story comparatively in arabic and persian literature. the aim of this paper is to discover latent aspects of short story in...

Resource-scarcity is a topic that is continually researched by the HLT community, especially for the SouthAfrican context. We explore the possibility of leveraging existing resources to help facilitate the development of new resources for under-resourced languages by using cross-lingual classification methods. We investigate the application of an Afrikaans genre classification system on Dutch t...

This study aimed to assess the quality of Persian translation of Orwell's (1949) Nineteen Eighty-Four by Balooch (2004) based on House's (1997) model of translation quality assessment. To do so, 23 pages (about 10 percent) of the source text were randomly selected. The profile of the source text register was produced and the genre was realized. The source text profile was compared to t...

In recent years, there has been an increasing amount of literature on genre-based approaches to writing instruction. However, scant attention has been paid to the use of genre-based scaffolding in the realm of academic writing. Hence, in an attempt to tackle the problems prevalent in academic writing, this study set out to investigate the effect of genre-based scaffolding through sentence start...

The problem of automatically determining the gender of the author of a literary document (i.e. fiction/non fiction), an electronic document (i.e. text collected from e-mail), an informal text (i.e. essays) etc. has been studied and have achieved reasonable accuracy in the range of 70-80%. These works have proven that noticeable differences exist, which discriminates author gender using simple l...

this study aims at explaining informal internet-based chat format with respect to its genre and writing components and system. the researchers analyzed 53 chat samples which were produced by 53 iranian students in high intermediate and advanced levels of english in a private institute while chatting with foreigners. besides the genre analysis, the purposes why people all around the world chat o...