There seem to be two distinctly different views on how to approach the analysis of texts in relation to context. One starts with an examination of context, folk-terminology for genres, perceived distance between the speakers and social factors of the participants. Goffman (1964: 133) for example lists ‘age, sex, class, caste, country of origin, generation, schooling [...]’ as social variables w...

We present a novel technique for Arabic morphological annotation. The technique utilizes diacritization to produce morphological annotations of quality comparable to human annotators. Although Arabic text is generally written without diacritics, diacritization is already available for large corpora of Arabic text in several genres. Furthermore, diacritization can be generated at a low cost for ...

This paper presents two empirical evaluations of Asynchronous CMC Deception Detection Theory (ACDDT) in the CMC genres of legitimate and spam e-mail. The ACDDT theorizes that deception detection in asynchronous text is indicated by the presence of the constructs of concealment, normality, and isolation. The ACDDT was tested on two common types of e-mail that attempt to deceive the reader/recipi...

110 The words used to discuss genres matter. The multiplication of genres and subgenres is accompanied by a growing number of corresponding labels, which are consequently debated and disputed. Using the case of the label “musiques émergentes” (“emerging musics”), which has spread rapidly during the last decade in the cultural landscape of Montréal, Canada, this article examines one debate surro...

In this paper I examine mixed synchronous and asynchronous text-based conversations that have been carried on in the context of a computer-mediated communication (CMC) system called "Babble", which has been in use by a group of nineteen people for nearly two years. The primary goal is to explore principled ways of analyzing and characterizing conversational activity in such systems using genre ...

The ever increasing data on world wide web calls for the use of vertical search engines. Sandhan is one such search engine which offers search in tourism and health genres in more than 10 different Indian languages. In this work we build a URL based genre identification module for Sandhan. A direct impact of this work is on building focused crawlers to gather Indian language content. We conduct...

This paper describes our work on building a trilingual parallel treebank. We have annotated constituent structure trees from three text genres (a philosophy novel, economy reports and a technical user manual). Our parallel treebank includes word and phrase alignments. The alignment information was manually checked using a graphical tool that allows the annotator to view a pair of trees from par...

In this paper we are going to present a method capable of visualizing and automatically determining similarity between stylistic genres in Swedish and English text documents. The method has also been implemented and tested with good results. It is based on linguistic methods and uses only the raw word content of documents, meaning that it requires no metatags or other features set by the author...

The paper describes a recently started project in Sweden. The goal of the project is to produce a corpus of (at least) one million words of running text from different genres, where all words are classified for word class and for a set of morphosyntactic properties. A set of methods and tools for automating the process are being developed and will be presented, and problems and some solutions i...

Arrau is a new corpus annotated for anaphoric relations, with information about agreement and explicit representation of multiple antecedents for ambiguous anaphoric expressions and discourse antecedents for expressions which refer to abstract entities such as events, actions and plans. The corpus contains texts from different genres: task-oriented dialogues from the Trains-91 and Trains-93 cor...