Genres on the Web Computational Models and Empirical Studies
The volume “Genres on the Web” has been designed for a wide audience, from the expert to the novice. It is a required book for scholars, researchers and students who want to become acquainted with the latest theoretical, empirical and computational advanc
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Text, Speech and Language Technology VOLUME 42
Series Editors Nancy Ide, Vassar College, New York Jean Véronis, Université de Provence and CNRS, France Editorial Board Harald Baayen, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands Kenneth W. Church, Microsoft Research Labs, Redmond WA, USA Judith Klavans, Columbia University, New York, USA David T. Barnard, University of Regina, Canada Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Romania Joaquim Llisterri, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Stig Johansson, University of Oslo, Norway Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, France
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Genres on the Web Computational Models and Empirical Studies Edited by
Alexander Mehler Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Serge Sharoff University of Leeds, United Kingdom
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Marina Santini KYH, Stockholm, Sweden
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Editors Alexander Mehler Computer Science and Mathematics Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main Georg-Voigt-Straße 4, D-60325 Frankfurt am Main Germany [email protected]
Serge Sharoff University of Leeds LS2 9JT Leeds United Kingdom [email protected]
Marina Santini Varvsgatan 25 SE-117 29 Stockholm Sweden [email protected]
ISSN 1386-291X ISBN 978-90-481-9177-2 e-ISBN 978-90-481-9178-9 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-9178-9 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010933721 c Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
As a reader, I’m looking for two things from a new book on genre. First, does it offer some new tools for analysing genres; and second, does it explore genres that haven’t been much studied before? Genres on the Web delivers brilliantly on both accounts, introducing as it does a host of computational perspectives on genre classification and focussing as it does on a range of newly emerging electronic genres. Lacking expertise in the computational modelling thematised throughout the book I can’t do much more here than express my fascination with the questions tackled and methods deployed. Having expertise in functional linguistics and its deployment in genrebased literacy programs I can perhaps offer a few observations that might help push this and comparable endeavours along. First some comments as a functional linguist. Characterising almost all the papers is a two-level approach nicely summarised by Stein et al. in their Table 8.1. On the one hand we have a web genre palette, with many alternative classifications of genres; on the other hand we have document repre
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