The dynamic nature of web and with the increase of the number of web pages, it is very difficult to search required web pages easily and quickly out of thousands of web pages retrieved by a search engine. The solution to this problem is to classify the web pages according to their genre. Automatic genre identification of web pages has become an important area in web page classification, because...

Retrieving relevant documents over the Web is an overwhelming task when search engines return thousands of Web documents. Sifting through these documents is time-consuming and sometimes leads to an unsuccessful search. One problem is that most search engines rely on matching a query to documents based solely on topical keywords. However, many users of search engines have a particular genre in m...

Musical genres are categorical labels created by humans to characterize pieces of music. A musical genre is characterized by the common characteristics shared by its members. These characteristics typically are related to the instrumentation, rhythmic structure, and harmonic content of the music. Genre hierarchies are commonly used to structure the large collections of music available on the We...

Genre recognition is a critical facet of text comprehension. In this study, we assess the minimum number of words in a sentence necessary for genre recognition to occur. Using corpora of Narrative, History, and Science sentences, we found that three experts in discourse psychology (demonstrating high agreement) accurately recognized the genre of over 80% of the sentences. This recognition gener...

While large data dependent techniques have made advances in between-genre classification, the identification of subtypes within a genre has largely been overlooked. In this paper, we approach automatic classification of within-genre Bundeli folk music into its subgenres; Gaari, Rai and Phag. Bundeli, which is a dominant dialect spoken in a large belt of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh has a ri...

When compared with individuals without explicit training in music, adult musicians have facilitated neural functions in several modalities. They also display structural changes in various brain areas, these changes corresponding to the intensity and duration of their musical training. Previous studies have focused on investigating musicians with training in Western classical music. However, mus...

We discuss the issues of resolving the information-retrieval problem in large digital collections through the identification and use of document genres. Explicit identification of genre seems particularly important for such collections because any search usually retrieves documents with a diversity of genres that are undifferentiated by obvious clues as to their identity. Also, because most gen...

Fantastic Realism is a genre which remind us of Russia and its great writer Dostoevsky. This genre has been developed in Iran among Iranian writers who have been familiar with the books of world literature, especially Russian literature. Fantastic Realism employs and combines reality and imagination, and while it concerns the reality related to human beings, it pictures that kind of reality whi...

The current study investigated the effectiveness of genre-based instruction on the development of EFL learners’ writing skills. Participants were 34 undergraduate students majoring in textile engineering at an Iranian state university, and they had enrolled in the English for specific academic purposes course. Participants were taught how to write 4 types of business letters, highlighting the p...

communicative moves and lexical cohesion patterns (lcps), as mounting evidence shows, are two important indicators in writing and publishing the ras. however, the interaction between these two crucial elements and the contribution of this interaction to the failure or success of the ras have not been given due attention to date. having this in mind and based on a sound theoretical framework, at...