HealthFinland-A national semantic publishing network and portal for health information
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
Genre distinctions for discourse in the Penn TreeBank
ACL '09 Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP: Volume 2 - Volume 2
Testing a genre-enabled application: a preliminary assessment
FDIA'08 Proceedings of the 2nd BCS IRSG conference on Future Directions in Information Access
Genre analysis of structured e-mails for corpus profiling
IRSG'08 Proceedings of the 2008 BCS-IRSG conference on Corpus Profiling
Grasping the structure of journal articles: Utilizing the functions of information units
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
A cross-domain analysis of task and genre effects on perceptions of usefulness
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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This research explores the use of genre as a document descriptorin order to improve the effectiveness of Web searching. A majorissue to be resolved is the identification of what documentcategories should be used as genres. As genre is a kind of folktypology, document categories must enjoy widespread recognition bytheir intended user groups in order to qualify as genres. Threeuser studies were conducted to develop a genre palette and showthat it is recognizable to users. (Palette is a term used to denotea classification, attributable to Karlgren, Bretan, Dewe, Hallberg,and Wolkert, 1998.) To simplify the users' classification task, itwas decided to focus on Web pages from the edu domain. The firststudy was a survey of user terminology for Web pages. Threeparticipants separated 100 Web page printouts into stacks accordingto genre, assigning names and definitions to each genre. The secondstudy aimed to refine the resulting set of 48 (often conceptuallyand lexically similar) genre names and definitions into a smallerpalette of user-preferred terminology. Ten participants classifiedthe same 100 Web pages. A set of five principles for creating agenre palette from individuals' sortings was developed, and thelist of 48 was trimmed to 18 genres. The third study aimed to showthat users would agree on the genres of Web pages when choosingfrom the genre palette. In an online experiment in which 257participants categorized a new set of 55 pages using the 18 genres,on average, over 70% agreed on the genre of each page. Suggestionsfor improving the genre palette and future directions for the workare discussed. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.