Video genre classification is a challenging task in a global context of fast growing video collections available on the Internet. This paper presents a new method for video genre identification by audio analysis. Our approach relies on the combination of low and high level audio features. We investigate the discriminative capacity of features related to acoustic instability, speaker interactivi...

This short review, along with the other reviews in this issue of Hermes, sets out to give a brief description of Vijay K. Bhatia’s work of 1993 Analysing Genre: Language Use in Professional Settings. Since four general reviews inevitably would overlap massively, they each focus on one particular aspect of Bhatia (1993). I shall, nevertheless, present a very brief review of the book in general. ...

The goal of our research is to improve event extraction by learning to identify secondary role filler contexts in the absence of event keywords. We propose a multilayered event extraction architecture that progressively “zooms in” on relevant information. Our extraction model includes a document genre classifier to recognize event narratives, two types of sentence classifiers, and noun phrase c...

Many historical newspapers are being digitized. We aim to support access to them via text analysis of the OCRd content. However, the OCR includes many errors; so extracting meaningful content from it is difficult. A pipeline of processing steps is proposed. Here, we describe the first two steps: segmentation and genre identification. The segmentation procedure based on headings was quite succes...

Genre is an important feature for organizing and accessing video games. However, current descriptors of video game genres are unstandardized, undefined, and embedded with multiple information dimensions. This paper describes the development of a more complex and sophisticated scheme consisting of 12 facets and 358 foci for describing and representing video game genre information. Using facet an...

Although the concept of metacognition has received considerable attention for its impact on learning across disciplinary areas, it has not been sufficiently discussed in the context of L2 academic reading and writing. In this paper, we bring together two theoretical frameworks, genre analysis and metacognition theory, and discuss the concept of metacognitive genre awareness. Drawing on the anal...

This essay introduces a new featured section, to be published in Small Axe annually, that explores the critical vocabulary of field Caribbean studies.

Purpose – A total of 17 user-compiled collections of webpages, comprising 833 bookmarked links in terms of genre, are studied. The purpose of this paper is to find out whether users tend to bookmark certain web genres more than others. Genre theory helps to make sense of the different pages included in these collections, and to classify them, according to their communicative purpose and salient...