Genre-Focussed Academic Events
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Colloquia, Workshops, Panels, Seminars
- The Colloquium "Towards a Reference Corpus of Web Genres", held in conjunction with Corpus Linguistics 2007 in Birmingham (UK), 27 July 2007.
- The Workshop "Towards Genre-Enabled Search Engines: The Impact of NLP", held in conjunction with RANLP 2007, at Bovorets (Bulgaria), 30 September 2007.
- The Panel "Towards the Use of Genre to Improve Search in Digital Libraries: Where Do We Go from Here?", sponsored by SIG-CR and SIG-HCI and held in conjunction with ASIST 2007 Milwaukee, Wisconsin (USA), October 19-24, 2007 ASIS&T 2007 Annual Meeting Conference Program
- The Seminar "State of the Art in Automatic Genre Identification: Where Do We Go from Here?" at Glasgow Information Retrieval Group, Tuesday, 20 May, 2008,16:00.
Special Issues
- Special Topic Section on Computational Analysis of Style, in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Volume 57, Issue 11 (September 2006)
- Bringing Genre into Focus, ASIST Bulletin, June/July 2008.
- Genre Lens on Information Systems, Special Issue of the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS).Volume 20 (2008), No. 1
Editorial A Special Issue Editorial -- T. Päivärinta, M. Shepherd, L. Svensson & M. Rossi The Materiality of Communicative Practice -- C. Østerlund Communicating Contents Through Configurable Media -- H. W. Nicolajsen & R. Scheeprs Genres of Spam: Expectations and deceptions -- W. L. Cukier, O. Ngwenyama & E. Nesselroth-Woyzbun Retrieval Models for Genre Classification -- B. Stein & S. Meyer zu Eissen
- “Automatic Genre Identification: State of the Art, Issues, and Prospects” (Special Issue of the journal LDV Forum 2008, Vol. 23(2), in preparation)
Books on genres on the Web
Mehler, Sharoff, Rehm, Santini, Genres on the web: Computational Models and Empirical Studies in preparation
