The first requirement on an interactive system in a domain such as information filtering is to be an interface to knowledge, rather than just a knowledgeable interface. We borrow the computation instruction metaphor of a system as “a black box in a glass box” as a means to conceptualize the problem of giving a user control over the actions of an interactive system. The application domain we wor...

Genre provides a characterization of a document with respect to its form or functional trait. Genre is orthogonal to topic, rendering genre information a powerful filter technology for information seekers in digital libraries. However, an efficient means for genre classification is an open and controversially discussed issue. This paper gives an overview and presents new results related to auto...

Studies reveal a strong relationship between personality and preferred musical genre. Our study explored this relationship using a new methodology: genre dispersion among people’s mobile-phone music collections. By analyzing the download behaviours of genre-defined user subgroups, we investigated the following questions: (1) do genre-preferring subgroups show distinct patterns of genre consumpt...

In this paper we argue that a combination of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and Genre Theory can constitute a theoretical framework for understanding how digital genres evolve. Genre theory states that genres evolve over time through reciprocal interaction between institutionalized practices and individual action; that they develop from actors’ responses to recurrent situations, and are shaped ar...

Abstract We explore a simple, web-based method for predicting the genre of a given artist based on co-occurrence analysis, i.e. analyzing co-occurrences of artist and genre names on music-related web pages. To this end, we use the page counts provided by Google to estimate the relatedness of an arbitrary artist to each of a set of genres. We investigate four different query schemes for obtainin...

the present study investigated the effect of single and multiple genre movies on listening comprehension of upper intermediate language learners. to this end, a language proficiency test was administered to 40 male and female postgraduates of different majors attending international english language testing system (ielts) classes and ultimately 25 upper intermediate language learners were selec...

Under the influence of a new medium, a genre may evolve into variants of the original genre or even into new genre. Genre, even through such evolution, are normally characterized by the tuple, , and little attention is paid to the functionality afforded by the new medium. The combination of the computer and the Internet, however, has resulted in the emergence of cybergenre, a new...