Taking an interdisciplinary and bimodal approach to genre analysis, this paper examines the influence of an IT system on a genre of technical communication: the technical trouble ticket. This genre is examined first as an organizational practice, and then as a set of rhetorical statements; finally, the two approaches are combined and the role of the system in creating, controlling and enabling ...

We approach the general problem of classifying machine-printed documents into genres. Layout is a critical factor in recognizing fine-grained genres, as document content features are similar. Document genre is determined from the layout structure detected from scanned binary images of the document pages, using no OCR results and minimal a priori knowledge of document logical structures. Our met...

While media use becomes increasingly important in virtualized work contexts, traditional media choice theories exhibit a range of shortcomings with regard to practical application. The paper presents an approach for contextualizing media choice using genre analysis. In doing so, the communication of a team can be captured as a repertoire of genres and as such be made accessible for subsequent a...

We investigate the problem of automated video classification by analysing the low-level audio-visual signal patterns along the time course in a holistic manner. Five popular TV broadcast genre are studied including sports, cartoon, news, commercial and music. A novel statistically based approach is proposed comprising two important ingredients designed for implicit semantic content characterisa...

Music genre meta-data is of paramount importance for the organization of music repositories. People use genre in a natural way when entering a music store or looking into music collections. Automatic genre classification has become a popular topic in music information retrieval research both with digital audio and symbolic data. This work focuses on the symbolic approach, bringing to music cogn...

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). ...

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...

In this paper, we present an inferential model for text type and genre identification of web pages, where text types are inferred using a modified form of Bayes’ theorem, and genres are derived using a few simple if-then rules. As the genre system on the web is a complex reality, and web pages are much more unpredictable and individualized than paper documents, we propose this approach as an al...

Writing is a challenging and demanding skill for EFL learners in Vietnam. Teaching writing skills at Vietnamese universities problematic since different approaches to have not been implemented effectively. Mainly, genre-based approach has yet classrooms successfully. This paper investigates how the taught learned Van Lang University. The study mentions some critical notions of systemic function...