abstract genre-based approach has been the focus of interest in the teaching of language since the mid1980s. genre is defined in terms of the use of language in conventionalized communicative settings. the present study made an attempt to scrutinize the effects of genre-based pedagogy on iranian pre-intermediate efl leaners' reading comprehension as well as the interaction between their re...

This extended abstract provides overview of the genre classification process in our submission for MIREX 2009. First, the scheme of extraction of features and use of them in the process of Musical Genre Classification is explained. In later part dataset and results obtained are described. Keywords—ISMIR, Genre, GMM, Timbre

Musical obsessions are rare in both clinical practice and literature. A case is presented of a musical obsession which had the additional unique characteristics of acute onset, marked severity, and occurrence as an isolated symptom.

Modern search engines are typically queried with keywords, which foremostly convey the topic of the sought web page. Consequently the resulting top hits are often topically relevant, but nonetheless not what the user wants. The premise of this paper is that the relevance of the hits can be improved when also searching by genre, classification criterion orthogonal to topic. To this end a genre c...

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for keyword extraction. Different from previous keyword extraction methods, which identify keywords based on the document alone, this approach introduces Wikipedia knowledge and document genre to extract keywords from the document. Keyword extraction is accomplished by a classification model utilizing not only traditional word based features but also f...

Classification and abstraction of narrative content is a problem that spans several domains and disciplines ranging from Film Studies and Narratology to Adaptive Hypermedia and Computational Preference Modeling. Applications for automatic recognition and classification of narrative content range from commercial recommendation systems to interactive digital storytelling (IDS) systems. The notion...

Cruickshank and Collins [2] ‘Advancing Leadership in Sport: Time to Take Off the Blinkers?’ has created something of a furore around the effectiveness and suitability of dark leadership traits and behaviours. This paper attempts to clarify some of the conceptual issues discussed within their paper, while also redressing a number of literary misrepresentations. Finally, the potential limitations...

OF THESIS STEREOTYPING THE WEB: GENRE CLASSIFICATION OF WEB DOCUMENTS Retrieving relevant documents over the Web is a difficult task. Currently, search engines rely on keywords for matching documents to user queries. This paper explores the potential for discriminating documents based on the genre of the document. I define genre as a taxonomy that incorporates the style, form and content of a d...

Our research explores the possibility of categorizing webpages and webpage genre by structure or layout. Based on our results, we believe that webpage structure could play an important role, along with textual and visual keywords, in webpage categorization and searching.

The purpose of the present study was first to offer a tentative solution to the problems observed in writing pedagogy in Iran by devising a more comprehensive approach to genre-based writing instruction. In the second phase, a quasi-experimental research design was adopted to determine how effective the model was in writing instruction, compared with the traditional, product-oriented approach, ...