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This list combines a lot of category sets: Karlgren/Cutting/Dewe, Crowston/Williams, Andrea, Svetlana, Dlee, Meyer zu Eissen/Stein, Rosso, Rubleske, Georg, Marina's, Vedrana/Mitja. I also introduced some new categories that crossed my mind while examining those hundreds of genres. While reading, please keep in mind that one text may belong to multiple categories.

  • About Page - A web page presenting personal or organizational information. (CW); short description of purpose or objectives of an organization (Rosso); mission statement (Rosso); following this definition, it includes Rosso's and Rubleskes "Course Description" - what's covered in a course; syllabus (Rosso); includes Georg's "Description of a work group" (see Homepage)
  • Abstract (Rosso, Rubleske) / Expose (Georg) - title and brief description and reference (Rosso)
  • Agenda, Schedule, Calendar - List of upcoming or regular events, often sorted by date and time. Includes Georg's "Examination dates", includes CW's University course listing: A list of numbers, titles and description of course offered in some department or departments, possibly including information such as prerequisites, instructor, meeting time and place; includes Georg's "Organisational data (course)", includes Georg's "Cinema programme"
  • Announcement (Rubleske) - Announcing one sinlge event (for example, the launch of a product; a birthday party) in the future. Often combined with an invitation.
  • Application - this is (like media) no text genre, but I added it for the sake of completeness. Web applications like gmail, googledocs or content management applications go in here. Includes Rubleske's "Calculator"
  • Bibliography: List of books, journal articles or links to other web pages. includes Georg's "List of publications".
  • Biography, Portrayal: Portrait of a person or organisation, in most cases written in prose.
  • Chronicle - A detailed and continuous register of events in order of time; a historical record, esp. one in which the facts are narrated without philosophic treatment, or any attempt at literary style (OED) - CW, includes Rubleske's "Biographical Timeline"
  • Code Listings /same as CW's Source code: A computer program /
  • Column, Editorial - A special feature, esp. one of a regular series of articles or reports (OED) (CW); According to Werlich (1976: 112), the Editorial (a.k.a. leading article) is kind of comment, where "the editor addresses the reader as a citizen of the political community at large and aims at seeing his advocated solution to a problem put to the test of practical political action". In other words, "it is an argumentative statement of views that are considered to be representative of a newspaper as a whole". (Marina) /Andrea: expressing the personal opinion of the writer. Often not political, but about society and stuff./
  • Comic
  • Commentary : personal opinion on a current topic, often politics.
  • Comment on Text or Event - Genre including all the texts expressing the opinion of the author on a specific topic. This replaces the genres Commentary, Column, Essay and also includes Rubleske's "Legal Opinion" /Discussion Andrea and Mirko/. Because: it can be very hard to computationally distinguish between editorial and any other kind of comment (Marina)
  • Community – Web pages containing framework for the content supplied by users like forums, Usenet and portals with user-generated content. /Andrea: Something like "myspace"? Are the subpages of such a community also communuity or something else?/ Vedrana: If we assign a genre at the level of a web page than I would assign to the forum inside myspace the label community, but for the search page I would not give the label community because only from the context I know that I am still inside myspace, but not from the form./
  • Contact Form / Contact - (Rosso) for asking questions, sending comments etc., also includes pages showing contact information without forms. Includes Georg's "Consent form"
  • Conversation Forum / Guestbook: Includes Forums where people talk about random things (Derived from Mirko's Comment on Forum,Chat)
  • Contracts / Disclaimer / Terms and Conditons - legally binding exchange of promises or agreement between parties that the law will enforce (Wikipedia)
  • Corporate Blog /Clog - Blog run by a company or members of a company. Often on a specific topic, containig almost no personal stories
  • Curiculum Vitae (CV, Resume) - most often written by the person in question, summarizing his life, focussing on his career.
  • Data, Statistics, Data Sheet - Information presented mainly by numbers, tables and alike; using little text. Includes CW's Demographic data: Data on the characteristics or composition of a population; and CW's Server statistics: Records of accesses to a Web server; includes Georg's "Sports results", "Test results", "Election Results"
  • Diary, Personal Blogs - a personal narrative or time log of activities, not a biography (Rosso); "The Personal Blogs in this collection are diary-style Personal Blogs the author (a blogger) expresses whatever s/he thinks, fears or experiences using entries posted in reverse chronological order. In Personal Blogs, the emphasis is on narrating personal events in a form similar to handwritten diaries (cf. Herring et al., 2005), often accompanied with argumentation (cf. Moor and Efimova, 2004)." (Marina)
  • Dictionary (bilingual and not monolingual)
  • Directory of Persons and Organisations - Phonebooks, list of participants or sponsors - "A book containing one or more alphabetical lists of the inhabitants of any locality, with their addresses and occupations; also a similar compilation dealing with the members of a particular profession, trade, or association (OED)" - CW, includes CW's Genealogy: An account of one's descent from an ancestor or ancestors, by enumeration of the intermediate persons; a pedigree (OED), includes Rubleske's "Staff Directory"
  • Download - Links to non-HTML files (applications etc.), includes CW's File directory listing: A list of files in a computer directory
  • Drama / Play
  • Encyclopedia - a comprehensive written compendium that contains information on all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge (Wikipedia) or an article therein (on one single topic), includes Rubleske's "Definition/Description" and "Facts-and-Figures Page"; includes Georg's "Glossary Entry" (as a very short Encyclopedian Article)
  • Errata
  • Error Message / Empty Page / Under Construction Page
  • Essay - A composition of moderate length on any particular subject (OED) - CW /Andrea: argumentative and expressing the personal opinion of the author/
  • Exercises, Problems - Problems assigned for a course (CW), includes homework, exam questions and Exercise Solutions
  • FAQ / Help - "Edited collection of questions and answers on some topic; often labelled as such - CW", assisting you to perform a task (Rosso), includes Q&A
  • Feature Story, News Reportage (DLee) : A longer article taking an in-depth look at a subject (wikipedia)
  • Front Page (Marina) - the first page of a newspaper. In the paper world it was mainly of a newspaper bearing the initial part of the most important articles. On the web, a Front Page has a more autonomous status than in the paper world.
  • Forecast - Provide Information about the future, often quite short and using numbers. Including Weather Report, Election Forecast etc.
  • Forum : many-to-many communication, often about a certain topic (programming, cats, etc.) - maybe rename this to Discussion /Mirko: Chats and (especially) forums are more tools than genres. "Thematic forums", "Free conversational forums" and "Professional forums" seem true genres to me. /Andrea: should we delete this? It somehow seems to be a specific genre people might be interesting in finding/
  • Game, Quiz, Puzzle (Rubleske)
  • Gateway / Welcome Page (Rosso) / Splash Page - Includes introductory and (non automatic) redirection pages having the purpose to take the visitor someplace else (e.g. a web page where you choose your language before proceeding). "A splash screen is an initial web site page used to capture the user's as a promotion, or leads into the home page. splash screens also used to tell the users what kind of browser and other software they need to view the site." (Marina)
  • Glossary - List of Definitions
  • Homepage (public/private/commercial/organization) - the page at the hierarchical top of a website. (CW); /Andrea: should we distinguish between public and private or is this, like topic, a different dimension?/
  • Horoscope
  • Index, Sitemap - Web page with lots of links to the same website. The purpose is easy navigation on the web page (or easy finding information in a book). "An alphabetical list, placed (usually) at the end of a book, of the names, subjects, etc. occurring in it, with indication of the places in which they occur (OED) - CW"
  • Instruction : explaining how to do something step by step. Includes Recipes. Same as Rosso's "Advice"
  • Interview
  • Invitation (Georg)
  • Job Listing (Rosso) - describes one or more jobs that are available
  • Joke - story intended to be funny (Rosso)
  • Law, Regulation, Rule, Proclamation (adminstrative and regulatory texts) - A rule prescribed for the management of some matter, or for the regulating of conduct; a governing precept or direction; a standing rule (OED) - CW; includes Rubleske's "Legal Summary"
  • Letter / E-mail - usually one-to-one communication, often starting with some salutation. Includes Georg's "Memo (I guess he meant the "brief statement" memo)/Circular"
  • Letters to the Editor (DLee)
  • Linkfarm - generated to attract mostly automatic traffic from web crawlers to a certain set of websites in order to optimise the ranking of these websites in search engines.
  • Link Collection - List of links to other web pages. Includes CW's Hot list: A list of Web sites not controlled by the list’s author, often organized by topic. Includes Rubleske's "Directory of Online Stores" and "Search Results"; Linkfarms - they are bad and useless, but however do list links to other websites.
  • List of Products (Rubleske)
  • List of Projects - includes CW's "List of research projects": A list of research projects underway in some group
  • Login Page (Rubleske)
  • Media - Images, Videos, Music and alike. We could split this up, but as our focus is on text genres, I think we shouldn't (Andrea). Includes Georg's "Exhibit (of a virtual museum)"
  • Meeting minutes - The record of the proceedings at a meeting of an assembly, corporate body, society, company, committee, or the like (OED) - CW. Includes protocols from law suits or hearings
  • News Article - includes press releases and CW's News wire article: An article prepared for a news wire, with a dateline and news content
  • News Collection (Rubleske), Archive, Newsletter, Digest, EZine - Directory of links to (old) news, maybe including some kind of summary; Medium length work, including multiple articles, titled, issued periodically (e.g., with date or volume), communicates "the news of the day", distributed periodically to subscribers or members of an organization (CW); information published about/by various organizations; collection of articles (or links to articles) (Rosso)
  • Newspaper (DLee) - Collection of several journalistic texts (news, interviews, ...) on one page, maybe only summaries and links
  • Obituary: Portrait of a dead person. Includes CW's Memorial.
  • Official Report - CW's "Report": A formal statement of the results of an investigation or of any matter on which definite information is required, made by some person or body instructed or required to do so (OED). Includes annual reports and Executive Summaries (Rubleske) from companies, military reports, police reports (Serge), inspection reports etc. More than just the data/statistics.
  • Ordering Form / Booking Form - Form for booking or ordering some stuff. Includes Rosso's "Registration Form"
  • Pamphlet - A small treatise [...] on some subject or question of current or temporary interest, personal, social, political, ecclesiastical, or controversial, on which the writer desires to appeal to the public (OED) - CW /Andrea: in german: "Streitschrift", not "Flugblatt". Somehow this is Advertisement (see Serges list of genres)
  • Petition - A petition is a request to an authority, most commonly a government official or public entity.
  • Prayer - to a deity
  • Promotional / Advertisement - Presentation of institutions, products and services, pages of "institutionalized" individuals (movie stars, singers etc.). The purpose is to promote. /Andrea: Most commercial homepages go in here/, includes CW's Product information: A description of the features and/or benefits of a product, written by manufacturer for potential purchasers, Rosso's "product for sale - page from an online store ", Rubleske's "Product/Service Description" and Georg's "Classified Ad"
  • Poem, Poetry, Lyrics /Mikael: It is cumbersome to include fiction categories here. Fictional genres are not consistent with non-fictional genres, from my point of view. One of the main purposes of some fiction are in fact to violate the existing conventions of fiction. Where will that lead us, since form is what has to guide our algorithms?/ /Andrea: But the three fictional genres I included (poem, prose, drama) are genres, and I think they are rather good ones and easy to recognize, as they have a rather strictly defined form. Could you give me an example, where you see problems?/ / On Fiction /
  • Pornographic - Pornography or porn is the explicit depiction of sexual subject matter, especially with the sole intention of sexually exciting the viewer (Wikipedia)
  • Prose, Prose Fiction : novel, fairy tale, narration
  • Public Debate - Non-interactive discussion on some specific topic. DLee: includes Meeting Minutes (but I, Andrea, don't agree). Includes DLee's S_parliament (public debates in parliaments etc.)
  • Quotation/s
  • Reportage : Longer story about travels, persons, events. The most literature-like journalistic genre.
  • Research Report / Scientific Report / Academic - Text representing the outcomes of scientific research
  • Review / Testimonial: Review of a book, movie, product, person. Description and evaluation. May include CW's Ratings: Numeric evaluations of products or services; includes Rosso's "Blurb": description page for a place or program (used to find out if you want to go there); includes CW's "Testimonial": A letter of recommendation of a person or thing (OED)
  • Script, Manuscript - The typescript of a cinema or television film; the text of a broadcast announcement, talk, play, or other material (OED) - CW, including DLee's S_sportslive: "live" sports commentaries and discussions; includes Goerg's "Presentation manuscript"
  • Search Form - Includes access to a databse (Rosso)
  • Sermon - a text that address a Biblical, theological, or religious topic (Wikipedia)
  • Shop, Shopping - Vedrana: Web pages created with intention to sell including online stores, price comparators and pricelists. Includes CW's Order form: A fill-in form for obtaining the information needed to arrange payment and shipment of some product; "From my personal observation, I consider an ESHOP an interactive document, with its own purpose (i.e. selling products), rhetorical function (persuade potential buyers), textual conventions (i.e. use of exhortations and a special typographical organization), and expectations (i.e. prices, pictures, short descriptions, offers, etc.). An ESHOP often organized as a list of products with prices." (Marina)
  • Specification - describes some product or service in detail. Includes Product Specification and Rosso's "Syllabus" and "Program" /Andrea: similar to data sheet. maybe the same?/
  • Speech, Public Speaking - (Rosso) speaking to a group of people in a structured, deliberate manner intended to inform, influence, or entertain the listeners (Wikipedia)
  • Strategic Plans - actions to take in the future. Includes CW's "Party Platform": A public declaration of the principles and policy on which a political party proposes to stand (OED); includes CW's "Government program description": A description of the features of government program, written by agency for potential beneficiaries; includes Georg's "Committee proposal" (if meant as something a commitee did propose and not as a proposal for the future mebers of the commitee - then it would be a "Directory of Persons and Organisations")
  • Survey (Rosso, Rubleske)
  • Table of contents, Navigation - A summary of the matters contained in a book (or website), in the order in which they occur, usually placed at the beginning of the book (OED) - CW. Includes Georg's "Episode list (tv show)"
  • Thematic Forum / Newsgroup - Interactive discussion on some specific topic. Includes Mirko's "Thematic forums" and "Professional forums"
  • Thesis
  • Travel Guide (Rublekse) - A book of information on places or objects of interest in a locality, city, building, etc. (OED) - CW
  • Tutorial - Text explaining something, like school books (formerly known as "Explanation"), includes Georg's "Medicial diagnosis procedure"; includes Rosso's "Course": classes or programs offered for instructional purposes; includes Marina's "DIY Miniguide"
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