First Call for Articles - LDV Forum: Special Issue on Genre

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*** Call for Journal Articles ***

Special Issue: LDV Forum 2008, Vol. 23(2)
***Title: "Automatic Genre Identification: State of the Art, Issues,
and Prospects"***

GUEST EDITORS: M. Santini, G. Rehm, S. Sharoff,  A. Mehler

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The popularity of the World Wide Web has given rise to distinct forms
of information-seeking behaviour and new interaction styles, but we
have not fully understood what these forms are nor their implication
for the developmen of new applications to assist users in the tasks
they perform online on a day-to-day basis. We believe that the concept
of genre have a significant impact on the future of web information
seeking and interaction, and our common goal is to explore the
possibility of meeting users' needs by filtering or organizing
information by genre.

There are several reasons why Automatic Genre Identification is still
only a niche research area. Among others, it seems to be very
difficult to agree upon a shared definition of genre, and a shared set
of genre categories. Another major problem is the lack of a genre
benchmark to perform objective evaluations of categorisation
approaches.