Genres on the Web
Computational Models and Empirical Studies
Editors: Mehler, Alexander, Sharoff, Serge, Santini, Marina (Eds.)
Free Preview- Covers natural language processing and information retrieval research
- Integrates text-technology, corpus linguistics and machine learning
- Provides a methodological bridge between many related disciplines in the area of text and language technology
- Appeals to a broad audience with its coverage of a wide range of research areas, such as computational linguistics, text-technology and data mining
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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 focussed 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.
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“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)
- Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Riding the Rough Waves of Genre on the Web
Pages 3-30
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Conventions and Mutual Expectations
Pages 33-46
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Identification of Web Genres by User Warrant
Pages 47-67
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Problems in the Use-Centered Development of a Taxonomy of Web Genres
Pages 69-84
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Cross-Testing a Genre Classification Model for the Web
Pages 87-128
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Genres on the Web
- Book Subtitle
- Computational Models and Empirical Studies
- Editors
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- Alexander Mehler
- Serge Sharoff
- Marina Santini
- Series Title
- Text, Speech and Language Technology
- Series Volume
- 42
- Copyright
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-90-481-9178-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-90-481-9178-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-90-481-9177-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-3372-5
- Series ISSN
- 1386-291X
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 362
- Topics