The volume Genres on the Web has been designed for a wide audience, from the expert to the novice. It is a required book for scholars, researchers and students who want to become acquainted with the latest theoretical, empirical and computational advances in the expanding field of web genre research. The study of web genre is an overarching and interdisciplinary novel area of research that spans from corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, NLP, and text-technology, to web mining, webometrics, social network analysis and information studies. This book gives readers a thorough grounding in the latest research on web genres and emerging document types. The book covers a wide range of web-genre focused subjects, such as: The identification of the sources of web genres Automatic web genre identification The presentation of structure-oriented models Empirical case studies One of the driving forces behind genre research is the idea of a genre-sensitive information system, which incorporates genre cues complementing the current keyword-based search and retrieval applications.
This book presents the latest research on web genres and emerging document types. It covers a wide range of web-genre focused subjects, such as: the identification of the sources of web genres, automatic web genre identification and structure-oriented models.
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From the reviews:
Genres on the Web is an edited volume consisting of fifteen studies which delve into a wide range of topics. This book is an invaluable resource for corpus and computational linguists, as well as those who specialise in areas such as natural language processing, information retrieval and web data mining. Overall, Genres on the Web is an impressive collection of scholarly work which is destined to become an important reference for anyone with interests in the language and genres of the Internet. (Jesse Egbert, Corpora, Vol. 7 (1), 2012)
Preface (by James R. Martin) Personal Note List of Contributors Part
I Introduction- Riding the Rough Waves of Genre on the Web, Marina Santini,
Alexander Mehler, Serge Sharoff.- Part II Identifying the Sources of Web
Genres - Conventions and Mutual Expectations, Jussi Karlgren .-
Identification of Web Genres by User Warrant, Mark A. Rosso, Stephanie W.
Haas .- Problems in the Use-Centered Development of a Taxonomy of Web Genres,
Kevin Crowston, Barbara Kwasnik, Joseph Rubleske .- Part III Automatic Web
Genre Identification - Cross-Testing a Genre Classification Model for the
Web, Marina Santini .- Formulating Representative Features with Respect to
Genre Classification, Yunhyong Kim, Seamus Ross .- In the Garden and in the
Jungle, Serge Sharoff .- Web Genre Analysis: Use Cases, Retrieval Models and
Implementation Issues, Benno Stein and Sven Meyeer zu Eissen and Nedim Lipka
.- Marrying Relevance and Genre Rankings: an Exploratory Study, Pavel
Braslavski .- Part IV Structure-Oriented Models of Web Genres -
Classification of Web Sites at Super-genre Level, Christoph Lindemann, Lars
Littig .- Mining Graph Patterns in Web-based Systems: A Conceptual View,
Matthias Dehmer and Frank Emmert-Streib .- Genre Connectivity and Genre Drift
in a Web of Genres, Lennart Bjorneborn .- Part V Case Studies of Web Genres -
Genre Emergence in Amateur Flash, John C. Paolillo, Jonathan Warren, Breanne
Kunz .- Variation Among Blogs: A Multi-dimensional Analysis, Jack Grieve,
Douglas Biber, Eric Friginal, Tatiana Nekrasova .- Evolving Genres in Online
Domains: The Hybrid Genre of the Participatory News Article, Ian Bruce .-
Prospect - Any Land in Sight? Marina Santini, Serge Sharoff, Alexander Mehler
.- Subject Index
