The article under studies deals with the issue of comparative aspects genre. Particular emphasis has been placed on genre form (in sense a characteristic matrix/canon as complex specific factors), which functions in terms continuous literary process and, accordingly, adapts to its contextual changes, deviations, objections, innovations, correlations, needs receptive environment. author’s and re...

Performers use various laryngeal settings to create voices for characters and personas they portray. Although some research demonstrates the sociophonetic associations of laryngeal voice quality, few studies have documented or examined the role of harsh voice quality, particularly with vibration of the epilaryngeal structures (growling). This article qualitatively examines phonetic properties o...

In “The Death of Genre: Why the Best YA fiction Often Defies Classification” (The ALAN Review, 35.1: 43-50), Scot Smith speaks of having to constantly reclassify and reshuffle texts as he and his students consider the books on the genre lists used in his classes. Knowing that “Young adult literature has a long tradition of authors whose works defy genre classification” (43), he mulls over the i...

Crosstalk, also known by its Chinese name xiangsheng, is a traditional Chinese comedic performing art featuring jokes and funny dialogues, and one of China’s most popular cultural elements. It is typically in the form of a dialogue between two performers for the purpose of bringing laughter to the audience, with one person acting as the leading comedian and the other as the supporting role. Tho...

Humor is a ubiquitous experience that facilitates coping, social coordination, and well-being. We examine how humorous responses to a tragedy change over time by measuring reactions to jokes about Hurricane Sandy. Inconsistent with the belief that the passage of time monotonically increases humor, but consistent with the benign violation theory of humor, a longitudinal study reveals that humoro...

We describe a system for automatic chord transcription from the raw audio using genre-specific hidden Markov models trained on audio-from-symbolic data. In order to avoid enormous amount of human labor required to manually annotate the chord labels for ground-truth, we use symbolic data such as MIDI files to automate the labeling process. In parallel, we synthesize the same symbolic files to pr...

Any automatic music genre recognition (MGR) system must show its value in tests against a ground truth dataset. Recently, the public dataset most often used for this purpose has been proven problematic, because of mislabeling, duplications, and its relatively small size. Another dataset, the Million Song Dataset (MSD), a collection of features and metadata for one million tracks, unfortunately ...

Webpages are mainly distinguished by their topic (e.g., politics, sports etc.) and genre (e.g., blogs, homepages, e-shops, etc.). Automatic detection of webpage genre could considerably enhance the ability of modern search engines to focus on the requirements of the user’s information need. In this paper, we present an approach to webpage genre detection based on a fully-automated extraction of...

The concept of genre is as old as literary theory itself, but centuries of debate haven’t produced much consensus on the topic. Part of the reason is that genre looks like a different thing at different points in the life of a text. Scholars of rhetoric tend to focus on the patterns of communicative action that produce memoranda or tragedies (Devitt 2004; Miller 1984). Sociologists are sometime...

The dynamic nature of web and with the increase of the number of web pages, it is very difficult to search required web pages easily and quickly out of thousands of web pages retrieved by a search engine. The solution to this problem is to classify the web pages according to their genre. Automatic genre identification of web pages has become an important area in web page classification, because...