Our project aims at understanding text genres within the domain of the news. Advances in computational methods and availability of digital corpora has ushered in a new age of empirically testing intuitions about genres and styles, in particular the automatic classification of a document to its genre. At the same time, identifying systematic patterns of difference between genres, both quantitati...

This paper describes how methods and techniques developed in corpus linguistics can be used to compare and contrast samples of language use over time and across genres. A diachronic Italian corpus of nuclear physics texts belonging to different genres is collected, organised, and analysed to demonstrate the use of language in shaping one of the key sciences of the 20 century.

Automatic summarization is a challenging task due to the fact that there exist a vast number of ways in which a particular text segment can be summarized. In addition, the quality of the final summary is judged differently by different humans according to their information need. Different techniques have been investigated which aim to capture the most salient content in text to include in a sum...

Musical onset detection is a key component in any beat tracking system. Existing algorithms for onset detection usually rely on short time Fourier transform (STFT). Of numerous existing methods to detect musical onsets, a common limitation is the genre-specific performance. For example, accurate onset locations are not usually identified for genres such as classical music and opera music. In th...

In this paper, we analyze web-downloaded data on people sharing their music library. By attributing to each music group usual music genres (Rock, Pop...), and analysing correlations between music groups of different genres with percolation-idea based methods, we probe the reality of these subdivisions and construct a music genre cartography, with a tree representation. We also show the diversit...

The study of mass contentious politics in Southeast Asia has accumulated significant knowledge over the last 40 years. This politics is instructive because it presents distinctive problems for analysis whose solutions will be useful to future analysts there and elsewhere. Two areas of knowledge where this literature has made special contributions are peasant resistance and the politics of insur...

To stretch a music piece to a given length is a common demand in people’s daily lives, e.g., in audio-video synchronization and animation production. However, it is not always guaranteed that the stretched music piece is acceptable for general audience since music stretching suffers from people’s perceptual artefacts. Over-stretching a music piece will make it uncomfortable for human psychoacou...

The aim of this paper is to present the development of a rule-based automatic detector which determines the main idea or the most pertinent discourse unit in two different languages such as Basque and Brazilian Portuguese and in two distinct genres such as scientific abstracts and argumentative answers. The central unit (CU) may be of interest to understand texts regarding relational discourse ...