Useful insights about the relation between domain-specific lexicons and the corpus-driven approach to terminology Genre and Terminology by Margaret Rogers Chapter in: Analysing Professional Genres Edited by Anna Trosborg, John Benjamins [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 74] 2000 Googlebook:
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Opinion Retrieval and Ranking: the creeping and ineluctable force of Genre
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.…
Book in Preparation: A Computational Theory of Digital Genre
Book in preparation: A Computational Theory of Digital Genre by Marina Santini The book lists, examines and develops the key concepts necessary to build a novel, intuitive and robust definition of digital genre for computational purposes. The newly proposed definition…
Request: Corpus-Based Sublanguage Glossary
How to build a glossary of: specialized term = common word automatically? Dear all, I wonder if you have any experience or if you can provide references on how to build automatically a glossary from genre-specific corpora. The glossary should…
Dissemination: A cross-domain analysis of task and genre effects on perceptions of usefulness (2012)
A cross-domain analysis of task and genre effects on perceptions of usefulness by Luanne Freund, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Information Processing & Management, In Press, Available online 30 October 2012 Abstract Search systems are limited by their…
Dissemination: Cross-Genre and Cross-Domain Detection of Semantic Uncertainty (2012)
Cross-Genre and Cross-Domain Detection of Semantic Uncertainty György Szarvas, Veronika Vincze, Richárd Farkas, György Móra, Iryna Gurevych* Computational Linguistics, June 2012, Vol. 38, No. 2, Pages 335-367 Uncertainty is an important linguistic phenomenon that is relevant in various Natural…
Dissemination: Stable Classification of Text Genres (2011)
Stable Classification of Text Genres Philipp Petrenz and Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh) Computational Linguistics, June 2011, Vol. 37, No. 2, Pages 385-393 Abstract Every text has at least one topic and at least one genre. Evidence for a…
Thesis Review: Emotion in Information Retrieval
Moshfeghi, Yashar (2012) Role of emotion in information retrieval PhD thesis Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the title of Doctor of Philosophy School of Computing Science, College of Science and Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK. Thesis Download (A…
Thesis Review: Opinion mining and lexical affect sensing
Alexander Osherenko, Opinion mining and lexical affect sensing. Computer-aided analysis of opinions and emotions in texts. PhD thesis published by SVH, 2010 (p. 255) Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Opinion-mining-lexical-affect-sensing/dp/383812488X;Free download: http://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1469 Reviewed by Marina Santini The PhD thesis “Opinion mining and lexical affect…
Towards a Computational Theory of Digital Genre (I): Working Definition of Genres for Computational Purposes
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…