What is genre? Why is it useful to master genre conventions? Can we classify document genres automatically? Around the world, lots of researches and scholars belonging to a wide range of disciplines are trying to provide answers to these and…
Last Updated: 22 June 2014 – 26 June 2014 – 3 July 2014 – — draft in progress — In this blog post (that I will update seamlessly), I would like to pin down a working definition of digital genre…
Last Updated: 25 June 2013 On 18 June 2013, I attended an interesting conference on cybersecurity. The conference was held in one of the conference rooms at the Police Academy in Rome*. The title of the conference was “Critical Infrastructure…
Last Updated: 27 May 2013 Two fundamental principles concurring to the definition and characterization of the concept of genre are conventions and expectations. Simply put, in textual (written or spoken) communication, genres are words that connote different types of text.…
Last updated: 15 May 2013 How do you overcome problems related to cross-linguality? My specific problem at them moment is caused by the poor coverage of everyday language in lexical resources. For instance, the Swedish single-word expression /egenremiss/ (14,900 hits,…
I had an interesting email exchange with Christophe Clugston, a researcher currently located in Thailand, about the classification of a specific subgenre belonging to the Netadvertising supergenre. He says: “I am looking at classifying a very narrow sub genre. Within…
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…
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…
Marina Santini. Copyright © 2012 Work in progress: Contextify is a metadata tagger that performs text and content enrichment. Contexify enriches information through text classification and content markup. How can we capture context from a text? I would start with…
Marina Santini. Copyright © 2012 Work in progress Talking about query logs, Karlgren (2010) points out: “There are several reasons to be cautious in drawing too far-reaching conclusions: we cannot say for sure what the users were after; […]”. However,…