[Asis-l] Book announcement: Automatic Identification of Genre in Web Pages (2011)

[Marina Santini]

Automatic Identification of Genre in Web Pages: A new perspective [Paperback]

Marina Santini (Author)

Paperback: 332 pages
Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing (December 19, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3847306871
ISBN-13: 978-3847306870

Genre is a complex but intuitively understood concept. Home pages,
FAQs, blogs, etc. are examples of genres currently thriving on the
web. Automatically identifying web genres would help us find documents
that are more relevant to our information needs. The aim of the
research described in this book is to develop automatic genre
classification algorithms. There are several challenges, however, that
affect the modelling of these algorithms. First, genres on the web are
instantiated in web pages, which can be considered documents of a new
type, much more unpredictable and individualised than documents on
paper. Second, the web is unstable and fluid, undergoing a fast-paced
evolution, so genre identification is influenced by phenomena such as
the formation of novel genres, genre hybridism, individualisation,
intra-genre and inter-genre variation. Finally, the automatically
extractable genre-revealing features used up to now are not adequate
to define existing and novel web genres. The author argues that
automatic identification of genre in web pages needs more flexible
genre classification schemes. The main body of the book describes
experiments that support this claim.

Link to the outline:
http://www.forum.santini.se/2012/01/book-outline-automatic-identification-of-genre-in-web-pages/

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Automatic-Identification-Genre-Web-Pages/dp/3847306871/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1326297843&sr=8-2

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Marina Santini
http://www.forum.santini.se
https://www.facebook.com/genresontheweb