utopian literature, in terms of content, includes the dream of a world with better and ideal conditions or an image of favorable and yet abstract (nowhere) world. based on a single main motivation, nostalgia and the desire to return to eternal origin and due to the intellectual paradigms form them, this genre has formed certain structures. from the perspective of realizing the origin and having...

This study presents the results of an initial phase of a project seeking to convert texts into a more accessible form for people with autism spectrum disorders by means of text simplification technologies. Random samples of Simple Wikipedia articles are compared with texts from News, Health, and Fiction genres using four standard readability indices (Kincaid, Flesch, Fog and SMOG) and sixteen l...

Despite their many identified shortcomings, music genres are still often used as ground truth and as a proxy for music similarity. In this work we therefore take another in-depth look at genre classification, this time with the help of music experts. In comparison to existing work, we aim at including the viewpoint of different stakeholders to investigate whether musicians and end-user music ta...

In this paper, we explore complex network properties of word collocation networks (Ferret, 2002) from four different genres. Each document of a particular genre was converted into a network of words with word collocations as edges. We analyzed graphically and statistically how the global properties of these networks varied across different genres, and among different network types within the sa...

A relationship among language, gender, and discourse genre has previously been observed in informal, spoken interaction and formal, written texts. This study investigates the language/gender/genre relationship in weblogs, a popular new mode of computer-mediated communication (CMC). Taking as the dependent variables stylistic features identified in machine learning research and popularized in a ...

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...

The Semantic Web has made it possible to automatically find meaningful connections between musical pieces which can be used to infer their degree of similarity. Similarity in turn, can be used by recommender systems driving music discovery or playlist generation. One useful facet of knowledge for this purpose are fine-grained genres and their inter-relationships. In this paper we present a meth...

OF THESIS STEREOTYPING THE WEB: GENRE CLASSIFICATION OF WEB DOCUMENTS Retrieving relevant documents over the Web is a difficult task. Currently, search engines rely on keywords for matching documents to user queries. This paper explores the potential for discriminating documents based on the genre of the document. I define genre as a taxonomy that incorporates the style, form and content of a d...

Users assess the “appropriateness” of web documents in many ways. Traditionally, appropriateness has been solely a matter of relevance to a particular topic. But users are concerned with other aspects of document “genre”, such as the level of expertise assumed by the author, or the amount of detail. In previous work, we have used machine learning to automatically classify documents along a vari...

Taking an interdisciplinary and bimodal approach to genre analysis, this paper examines the influence of an IT system on a genre of technical communication: the technical trouble ticket. This genre is examined first as an organizational practice, and then as a set of rhetorical statements; finally, the two approaches are combined and the role of the system in creating, controlling and enabling ...