Current music genre research tends to focus heavily on classical and popular music from Western cultures. Few studies discuss the particular challenges and issues related to non-Western music. The objective of this study is to improve our understanding of how genres are used and perceived in different cultures. In particular, this study attempts to fill gaps in our understanding by examining K-...

The successful use of digital media will require new or transformed genres of digital communication. Not only particular technologies or modes of communication or presentation such as hypertext, email, or the Web, but also on complex communicative forms anchored in specific institutions and practices. Along with the digital analogues of print forms like the newspaper, the annual report, the how...

Genre is a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content (according to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary [2] – among two other, less relevant definitions). It can be debated whether a genre can be defined by style (and form) alone, or must content (topic) also be taken into account. For example, can science fiction be distinguished ...

The PAN 2016 author profiling task is a supervised classification problem on cross-genre documents (tweets, blog and social media posts). Our system makes use of concreteness, sentiment and syntactic information present in the documents. We train a random forest model to identify gender and age of a document’s author. We report the evaluation results received by the shared task.

Genre provides a characterization of a document with respect to its form or functional trait. Genre is orthogonal to topic, rendering genre information a powerful filter technology for information seekers in digital libraries. However, an efficient means for genre classification is an open and controversially discussed issue. This paper gives an overview and presents new results related to auto...

Abstract We explore a simple, web-based method for predicting the genre of a given artist based on co-occurrence analysis, i.e. analyzing co-occurrences of artist and genre names on music-related web pages. To this end, we use the page counts provided by Google to estimate the relatedness of an arbitrary artist to each of a set of genres. We investigate four different query schemes for obtainin...

Medical writers and translators need information of three kinds: conceptual, contextual textual. When in possession this information, they can progressively improve their efficiency. Textual genre has proved to be useful linguistic mediators professional texts, providing them with the communicative textual competence required. I suggest that scope usefully widened include notion systems. This p...

In this chapter, we discuss different options for using genre-related information in Web search. We conduct an experiment on merging genre-related and text-relevance rankings using a reference Web collection. A method for automatic extraction of formality score akin to readability score using canonical discriminant analysis applied to a sample of genres with decreasing formality is proposed. Ef...

Strategic and Interactive Writing Instruction (SIWI) has led to improved writing and language outcomes among deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) middle grades students. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of SIWI on the written expression of DHH elementary students across recount/personal narrative, information report, and persuasive genres. Five multiple-probe case studies demonstr...