Mp3s are increasingly the dominant format for recorded music. However, the current organizational methods for mp3 collections are lacking. Thus I propose the Trax system, a visualization tool for organizing mp3s according to genre, and for creating playlists. Trax works on the assumption that most songs exist in multiple genres, and thus creates a graph representing these links between differen...

This study reports on the findings of a genre teaching course for developing academic writing of a class of EFL students in Iran. The information report genre was taught in a cyclical way of teaching and learning, which was started from ‘setting the context’ and ‘deconstruction’ of prototype information report genre, and continued with ‘joint construction’, ‘independent construction’, and final...

Recent work in the sociology of music suggests a declining importance of genre categories. Yet other work in this research stream and in the sociology of classification argues for the continued prevalence of genres as a meaningful tool through which creators, critics and consumers focus their attention in the topology of available works. Building from work in the study of categories and categor...

Making a theoretical case linking genre trajectory with artistic legitimation struggles, this paper seeks to explain the development of the American science fiction magazine. Across the fifty-plus years analyzed, science fiction emerged from its lowbrow pulp fiction origins into a highly successful, critically acclaimed genre across multiple mediums. This empirical trend is then modeled using p...

When it comes to computer game genre classifications, we are still forced to navigate a terminology jungle, having to simultaneously consider the game platform, the narrative, the game world milieu and, last but not least, the mode of gameplay. With multiple terms in each of these subcategories the norm, the plethora of descriptive words makes the taxonomy all but impenetrable. And yet a clear ...

Music genres allow to categorize musical items that share common characteristics. Although these categories are not mutually exclusive, most related research is traditionally focused on classifying tracks into a single class. Furthermore, these categories (e.g., Pop, Rock) tend to be too broad for certain applications. In this work we aim to expand this task by categorizing musical items into m...

Automatic classification of music pieces by genre is one of the crucial tasks in music categorization for intelligent navigation. In this work we present a multiExpert genre classification system based on acoustic, musical and timbre features. A novel rhythmic characteristic, 2D beat histogram is used as high-level musical feature. Timbre features are extracted by multiple-f0 detection algorith...

Current web technology has brought us a scenario that information about a certain topic is widely dispersed in data from different domains and data modalities, such as texts and images from news and social media. Automatic extraction of the most informative and important multimedia summary (e.g. a ranked list of inter-connected texts and images) from massive amounts of cross-media and cross-gen...

In “The Death of Genre: Why the Best YA fiction Often Defies Classification” (The ALAN Review, 35.1: 43-50), Scot Smith speaks of having to constantly reclassify and reshuffle texts as he and his students consider the books on the genre lists used in his classes. Knowing that “Young adult literature has a long tradition of authors whose works defy genre classification” (43), he mulls over the i...

The increasing impact of audiovisual media and film industry in particular has led researchers to think of audiovisual translation strategies. Huge investments in film industry need global markets. Hence, there is a need for qualified translations and systematic studies dedicated to this area are in great demand. This study aims to investigate translation strategies adopted in the translation o...