This extended abstract provides overview of the genre classification process in our submission for MIREX 2009. First, the scheme of extraction of features and use of them in the process of Musical Genre Classification is explained. In later part dataset and results obtained are described. Keywords—ISMIR, Genre, GMM, Timbre

Automatic musical genre classification is very useful for music indexing and retrieval. In this paper, an efficient and effective automatic musical genre classification approach is presented. A set of features is extracted and used to characterize music content. A multi-layer classifier based on support vector machines is applied to musical genre classification. Support vector machines are used...

This work addresses the problem of genre classification of text and speech transcripts, with the goal of handling genres not seen in training. Two frameworks employing different statistics on word/POS histograms with a PCA transform are examined: a single model for each genre and a factored representation of genre. The impact of the two frameworks on the classification of training-matched and n...

This study introduces a Genre Purity Assessment Tool (GPAT). GPAT calculates genre purity by using SIF n-graphs (statistically improbable graph strings) to identify genre characteristics in text. The study describes the tool and assesses it across five experiments that feature a variety of text types and text lengths. The results demonstrate that GPAT is at least as effective as a system that u...

Task difficulty across different macro-genres continues to remain among less attended areas in second language development studies. This study examined the correlation between task difficulty across the descriptive, narrative, argumentative, and expository macro-genres. The three components of task difficulty (i.e., code complexity, cognitive complexity, and communicative stress) were also comp...

This study aimed at investigating the impact of writing on Iranian EFL college students’ rhetorical organization. Thirty Iranian female undergraduate students majoring in English at Al-zahra University participated in the current study. The writing instructions included two stages, each lasting for four weeks. The participants were assigned to a control group and an experimental group according...

as a distinct socially constructed genre, wedding invitations (wis) offer a fruitful site for investigating how two areas of genre knowledge (i.e., form and content) change over time under the influence of sociocultural forces. through the examination of 100 iranian wis dating from 1970s to the present time, the study investigated the trajectories of change through time within the social semiot...

A pivotal issue in research on writing concerns whether the knowledge of how genres are constructed and learned in one discipline/genre can be transferred to other contexts, genres, and disciplines. Yet, studies conducted so far have not presented a unified and complete view of how various writing instructional techniques can result in transferability. This study examined the effect of structur...

Domain adaptation is an active field of research in statistical machine translation (SMT), but so far most work has ignored the distinction between the topic and genre of documents. In this paper we quantify and disentangle the impact of genre and topic differences on translation quality by introducing a new data set that has controlled topic and genre distributions. In addition, we perform a d...