Towards a Computational Theory of Digital Genre (I): Working Definition of Genres for Computational Purposes by Marina Santini – Last Updated: 29 Oct 2012 1. What is a (textual) genre? • A genre is a class of texts with similar…
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Impact of Sociolinguistics in Opinion Mining Systems
Signed post by Alexander Osherenko, Socioware Development, osherenko@socioware.de Full paper: Considering Impact of Sociolinguistic Findings in Believable Opinion Mining Systems Proceedings of The Fifth International Conference On Cognitive Science. 2012. Kalinigrad, Russia (http://www.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/~osherenk/final_kalinigrad.pdf) Opinions are frequent means of communication in…
The Path Forward: From Big Unstructured Data to Contextualized Information
How can we convert massive quantities of unstructured data to structured information? What kind of “structure” do we need for a reliable interpretation of this undomesticated data? I suggest thinking of a text-analytic framework based on “context”. Search keywords, events,…
AGI: Structured and Unstructured Noise
How would you handle automatic text classification in noisy conditions? This is what has been done, to my knowledge, in Automatic web Genre Idintefication (AGI). By noise here I refer to two different disturbing factors*: 1) the training sample and…
Beyond Topic: Genre and Search
One of the central problems of information retrieval (IR) is the difficulty of matching a document to a query in the absence of any contextual information about the searchers and the document creators. Genre is a context carrier and genre…
Genre, Social Action and Social Intelligence
An important dimension that has not been investigated so far is the relatedness among genre, social action and social intelligence. The interpretation of genre in terms of social action was put forward more than 25 years ago by Carolyn Miller…
Provocation or Food for thought? Web sites as AI Mind Persons
Post signed by: Arthur T. Murray, independent scholar in artificial intelligence One difference between natural and artificial intelligence is that a human being can have a webpage, while an artificial intelligence can be a webpage. There are potentially many genres of artificial intelligence,…
User-Web Interaction: Gestalt in Information Retrieval
Post signed by: Maya Dimitrova, Institute of Control and System Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences * In this post, all references, figures and tables have been removed by the blog’s moderator. [Part II] 3 Gestalt in Information Retrieval A group…
Gestalt Processes in User-Web Interaction: A Two-Side View
Post signed by: Maya Dimitrova, Institute of Control and System Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences * In this post, all references, figures and tables have been removed by the blog’s moderator. [Part I] 1. Introduction The Web is developing adaptively and displays…
Re-fusing form in genre study by Amy J. Devitt (2009) II
Continued. Amy J. Devitt, Re-fusing form in genre study, in Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein (eds) Genres in the Internet, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009 … I am not sure that I completely agree on the importance of the “content”,…