Genres on the Web: computational models and empirical studies

Description

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Riding the Rough Waves of Genre on the Web....Pages 3-30 Front Matter....Pages 31-31 Conventions and Mutual Expectations....Pages 33-46 Identification of Web Genres by User Warrant....Pages 47-67 Problems in the Use-Centered Development of a Taxonomy of Web Genres....Pages 69-84 Front Matter....Pages 85-85 Cross-Testing a Genre Classification Model for the Web....Pages 87-128 Formulating Representative Features with Respect to Genre Classification....Pages 129-147 In the Garden and in the Jungle....Pages 149-166 Web Genre Analysis: Use Cases, Retrieval Models, and Implementation Issues....Pages 167-189 Marrying Relevance and Genre Rankings: An Exploratory Study....Pages 191-208 Front Matter....Pages 209-209 Classification of Web Sites at Super-genre Level....Pages 211-235 Mining Graph Patterns in Web-based Systems: A Conceptual View....Pages 237-253 Genre Connectivity and Genre Drift in a Web of Genres....Pages 255-274 Front Matter....Pages 275-275 Genre Emergence in Amateur Flash....Pages 277-302 Variation Among Blogs: A Multi-dimensional Analysis....Pages 303-322 Evolving Genres in Online Domains: The Hybrid Genre of the Participatory News article....Pages 323-348 Front Matter....Pages 349-349 Any Land in Sight?....Pages 351-354 Back Matter....Pages 355-362