| Genres on the Web: Computational Models and Empirical Studies 2011 Edition Contributor(s): Mehler, Alexander (Editor), Sharoff, Serge (Editor), Santini, Marina (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9400733720 ISBN-13: 9789400733725 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Natural Language Processing - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General - Computers | Speech & Audio Processing |
| Dewey: 006.35 |
| Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.16 lbs) 362 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 advances in the expanding field of web genre research. The study of web genre is an overarching and interdisciplinary novel area of research that spans from corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, NLP, and text-technology, to web mining, webometrics, social network analysis and information studies. This book gives readers a thorough grounding in the latest research on web genres and emerging document types. The book covers a wide range of web-genre focused subjects, such as: One of the driving forces behind genre research is the idea of a genre-sensitive information system, which incorporates genre cues complementing the current keyword-based search and retrieval applications. |