Polarity detection of Online Reviews is one of the most popular tasks related to Opinion Mining. Given that most state-of-the-art solutions ignore the structural aspects of a review, we present an approach to polarity detection that, first, distinguishes stages in the genre of hotel reviews and, subsequently, evaluates the usefulness of each type of stage in the determination of the polarity of...

Literary genres are commonly viewed as being defined in terms of content and style. In this paper, we focus on one particular type of content feature, namely lexical expressions of emotion, and investigate the hypothesis that emotion-related information correlates with particular genres. Using genre classification as a testbed, we compare a model that computes lexiconbased emotion scores global...

In organisation schemes, musical artists are commonly identified with a unique ‘genre’ label attached, even when they have affinity to multiple genres. To uncover this hidden cultural awareness about multi-genre affinity, we present a new model based on the analysis of the way in which a community of users organise artists and genres in playlists. Our work is based on a novel dataset that we ha...

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 classification has been found to improve performance in many applications of statistical NLP, including language modeling for spoken language, domain adaptation of statistical parsers, and machine translation. It has also been found to benefit retrieval of spoken or written documents. At its base, however, classification assumes separability. This paper revisits an assumption that genre v...

Despite the crucial role of introductory sections in argumentative academic writing, the effects of genre- based approaches to writing introductory paragraphs have not been much explored yet. The present study aimed to investigate whether the provision of genre knowledge through modeling and non-modeling could enhance learners’ ability in writing introductory paragraphs of argumentative essays....

This thesis is about polarity analysis of reviews, that is, classifying reviews as either positive or negative based on linguistic evidence. I describe a genre-based approach for the polarity analysis of customer reviews. Genre is characterized by a schematic structure of the discourse composed of different types of stages, each one with a goal-oriented function. This approach to polarity analy...

This paper reports on an approach to the analysis of form (layout and formatting) during genre recognition recorded using eye tracking. The researchers focused on eight different types of e-mail, such as calls for papers, newsletters and spam, which were chosen to represent different genres. The study involved the collection of oculographic behaviour data based on the scanpath duration and scan...