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 (Comments): 10 July 2013 On the 30th May 2013, I attended the Findability Day 2013 (findabilityday2013-esli.eventbrite.com) organized by Findwise (www.findwise.com). The gathering of about 200 participants took place in Central Stockholm (Odenplan) in a sunny day, in bright…
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,…
by Marina Santini A few days ago, I attended a fascinating session organized by the Quantified Self Stockholm (QS) MeetuUp, in a venue with an inspiring name, Psykologifabriken (The Psychology Factory), in center Stockholm. This QS session – Adding Power…
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…
Report: Language in the Digital Age – META-NORD National Workshop by Marina Santini Held in Stockholm, Sweden, 23 Nov 2012 Download program and presentations here. I was very happy to attend the workshop “Language in the Digital Age” last week…
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…
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,…