Abstract

This paper reports on our approach to the analysis of genre recognition using eyetracking. We focused on a collection of different types of email which could represent different datasets, such as, mailing lists for calls for papers, newsletters, etc. We found that genre analysis based on purpose, form and layout features is potentially effective for identifying the characteristics of these datasets and we have highlighted some of the new important features of genres. The results from a pilot study showed a clear effect, with an interaction between the email texts and the visual cues or features perceived and also the strategies employed for the processing of the texts. We found, in our small sample, that readers can determine the purpose and form of genres and that during this process some readers do skim the shape of the e-mails (form).

Highlights

  • Much enterprise/web retrieval research depends on corpora containing features related to uniform resource locators (URLs), links, tags, etc, (for example, the text retrieval conference (TREC) blog)

  • The aim of this study is to investigate these types of genres for profiling corpora and, how they are used within e-mails inside an organisation

  • In IR circles, genre is largely overlooked in most collections, such as TREC and initiative for the evaluation of XML retrieval (INEX)

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Introduction

Much enterprise/web retrieval research depends on corpora containing features related to uniform resource locators (URLs), links, tags, etc, (for example, the text retrieval conference (TREC) blog). It is performed at a speed several times faster than conventional reading and is normally used when a reader has a large amount of text to read within a limited time and does not need to understand every word, for example, when a student has to perform a literature search for academic papers: an abstract, for example, could be skimmed to judge whether a particular article would be useful/relevant for the current research It is a main contention of this research that an important aspect, that is, the layout or genre, of the document structure is not consciously thought about when considering skimming or scanning to find out whether the document is relevant. There are many definitions of genre so first it is appropriate to narrow down the meaning for this study

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