In this paper, we discuss the notion of genre as a basis for addressing the problem of context representation in digital preservation. We outline several reference points for the notion of genre. This includes a review of diplomatic principles that can support and enhance the power of genre as a key to capture information about context relations. Further, we discuss the impact of open genre mod...

I analyze the genre preferences of UK film audiences, applying correspondence analysis to data produced for the BFI’s report Opening Our Eyes on the cultural contribution of film. Although there is a weak correlation between the interactively coded variable ‘gender-age’ and genre, I identify clear patterns of genre preferences that extend the original interpretation of this data showing how vie...

In this paper, we explore the problem of recognizing named entities in microposts, a genre with notoriously little context surrounding each named entity and inconsistent use of grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling conventions by authors. In spite of the challenges associated with information extraction from microposts, it remains an increasingly important genre. This paper present...

In this paper, we report on a preliminary study we carried out for identifying patterns that characterize the genre type of Greek texts. In the course of our study, we address four distinct genre types, we record their observable stylistic elements and we indicate their exploitation for automatic genre-based document classification. The findings of our study demonstrate that texts contain lexic...

We report on our ongoing study of using the genre of Web pages to facilitate information exploration. By genre, we mean socially recognized regularities of form and purpose in documents (e.g., a letter, a memo, a research paper). Our study had three phases. First, through a user study, we identified genres which most/least frequently meet searchers' information needs. We found that certain genr...

This paper contributes to a facet from the area of Web Information Retrieval that has recently received much attention: The satisfaction of a user’s personal information need with respect to text type, presentation type, or information quality. We imply that such properties can be quantified for all kinds of Web documents, and we subsume them under the term “Web genre” or “genre”. Recent survey...

This paper explores the “digitalization” of a particular genre of written documents, the ones produced by meeting processes, especially supported by Electronic Meeting Systems. Although it is now common to find meeting reports in a digital format, it was found that they are simply replicas of the paper versions. As long as a purpose of a meeting report is to disseminate meeting outcomes it is i...

Rhetoricians since Aristotle have attempted to classify communications or documents into categories or “genres” with similar form, topic or purpose. This article surveys research on genre as it relates to Internet documents. The article briefly presents the concept of genre in general, and then reviews the evolution and emergence of genres on the Internet. It concludes with an examination of th...

This paper explores the value of FreeDB as a source of genre and music similarity information. FreeDB is a public, dynamic, uncurated database for identifying and labeling CDs with album, song, artist and genre information. One quality of FreeDB is that there is high variance in, e.g., the genre labels assigned to a particular disc. We investigate here the ability to use these genre labels to p...

This paper explores the value of FreeDB as a source of genre and music similarity information. FreeDB is a public, dynamic, uncurated database for identifying and labelling CDs with album, song, artist and genre information. One quality of FreeDB is that there is high variance in, e.g., the genre labels assigned to a particular disc. We investigate here the ability to use these genre labels to ...