Deliberation is an increasingly used concept in Argumentation Theory and Linguistic Analysis. But only recently research combined empirical and conceptual tool-boxes from these disciplines for the study of deliberative discourse. The aim of this article is to present a discursive analysis of deliberation as a genre using the relational discourse structure of texts. In particular, we want to see...

Current document retrieval tools succeed in locating large numbers of documents relevant to a given query. While search results may be relevant according to the topic of the documents, it is more difficult to identify which of the relevant documents are most suitable for a particular user. Automatic genre analysis that is, the ability to distinguish documents according to style would be a usefu...

Scientific writing is a general label with a great deal of variation at any period. Empirical evidence of variation within genres of the early periods has been produced by studies of the Helsinki Corpus of English Texts, as they have shown that umbrella categories like ‘religious treatises’ or ‘scientific writing’ contain very heterogeneous texts (Meurman-Solin 1993, Taavitsainen 1993, 1994a). ...

A robust music genre classification framework is proposed that combines the rich, psycho-physiologically grounded properties of auditory cortical representations of music recordings and the power of sparse representation-based classifiers. A novel multilinear subspace analysis method that incorporates the underlying geometrical structure of the cortical representations space into non-negative t...

The phrase "virtual community" is often used to describe long term, computer-mediated conversations amongst large groups. This paper suggests that such conversations may be better viewed as instances of a participatory genre, rather than as community. A genre-oriented analysis is useful because it encourages a focus on the medium within which the discourse is embodied. As an example we analyze ...

With the advent of larger electronic music repositories, the automatic organization of music into different genre categories is receiving increased attention. The creation of such genre hierarchies, as well as ways for providing useful interfaces to these, poses an interesting challenge. With the SOM-enhanced JukeBox (SOMeJB) system we developed an approach for automatically organizing pieces o...

The contemporary videogame genre of the military shooter, exemplified by blockbuster franchises like Call of Duty and Medal of Honor, is often criticised for its romantic and jingoistic depictions of the modern, high-tech battlefield. This entanglement of military shooters and the rhetoric of technologically advanced warfare in a “militaryentertainment complex” is scrutinised by Yager’s Spec Op...

An online discussion forum becomes more significant in facilitating people to share opinions. Companies must understand how consumers use the online forum. We study an influential online discussion forum in Thailand, Pantip.com, in order to classify user behaviors in the cosmetic discussion forum. We adopt the concept of genre and genre repertoire to assist our content analysis. We analyze 77 d...

Music genre classification is one example of content-based analysis of music signals. Traditionally, human engineered features were used to automatize this task and 61% accuracy has been achieved in the 10-genre classification. However, it’s still below the 70% accuracy that humans could achieve in the same task. Here, we propose a new method that combines knowledge of human perception study in...

Using the concept of genre, we examined the use of Team Room to facilitate collaborative work in one organization. Team Room is a collaborative application built within Lotus Notes and designed specifically to support teams within organizational settings. We studied three teams’ communication in Team Room over seven months and found that some of the genres they enacted formed sets of interdepen...