This study investigated the accuracy of gender-specific stereotypes about movie-genre preferences for 17 genres. In Study 1, female and male participants rated the extent to which 17 movie genres are preferred by women or men. In Study 2, another sample of female and male participants rated their own preference for each genre. There were three notable results. First, Study 1 revealed the existe...

We present initial results from an international and multi-disciplinary research collaboration that aims at the construction of a reference corpus of web genres. The primary application scenario for which we plan to build this resource is the automatic identification of web genres. Web genres are rather difficult to capture and to describe in their entirety, but we plan for the finished referen...

A desired property of a measure of connective strength in bigrams is that the measure should be insensitive to corpus size. This paper investigates the stability of three different measures over text genres and expansion of the corpus. The measures are (1) the commonly used mutual information, (2) the difference in mutual information, and (3) raw occurrence. Mutual information is further compar...

New music genres emerge constantly resulting from the influence of existing genres and other factors. In this paper we propose a data-driven approach which is able to cluster and classify music samples according to their type/category. The clustering method uses no previous knowledge on the genre of the individual samples or on the number of genres present in the dataset. This way, music taggin...

The availability of semantically enriched data in repositories of larger content providers offers a means for new ways of multimedia presentation authoring. Existing (semi-)automatic content composition environments explore limited numbers of genres and concentrate on templatebased approaches for composing discourse structures for these genres. We analyze a number of genres based on identifiabl...

This paper suggests that in dispersed settings presence and awareness are continuously produced and reproduced by human agents through communication genres. Specifically, the paper argues that presence and awareness are two interrelated concepts. More specifically, it proposes four communication genres people intentionally or unintentionally draw upon in dispersed settings in order to create aw...

In this paper, we describe experiments conducted on identifying a person using a novel unique correlated corpus of text and audio samples of the person’s communication in six genres. The text samples include essays, emails, blogs, and chat. Audio samples were collected from individual interviews and group discussions and then transcribed to text. For each genre, samples were collected for six t...

abstract: the research at hand discusses about the notion of the theme in persian scientific and literary genres from the point of view of halliday’s systemic functional grammar (sfg) and explains and determines the similarities and differences of the two genres in persian language. in this research, after mentioning the obvious differences of the two genres from the point of view of theme type...

This article presents a holistic approach to the study of genres in book publishing that includes formal aspects literary texts, marketing strategies and categorisations used by producers, perspectives on how these labels are perceived readers critics, as well temporal spatial understanding evolve. The empirical point departure is recent boom Nordic Noir, exemplified following three Swedish aut...