Document Genres Research Articles

An Investigation of the Associations Among Professional Tasks, Document Genres and Document Assessments in the Context of University Teaching

This study investigated the following three associations in the university teaching context: (1) between genres of the documents faculty used to support their teaching and the tasks they performed to use these genres; (2) between these genres and the criteria they employed to assess these genres; and (3) between their tasks and criteria. We first employed qualitative citation analysis to identify the genres faculty used based on citations in their teaching materials (e.g., syllabi and lecture slides). Semi-structured interviews were then implemented to explore how they assessed and used different genres. A total number of 27 faculty from different disciplines contributed 28 courses. Qualitative content analysis was employed to analyze interview transcripts. The results indicate the criteria faculty employed served as function enablers that bridged genres and tasks. The tasks they performed served as the inclusion and exclusion criteria that determined what genres were used or not. Tasks determined the information characteristics of genres that mattered in faculty’s task performance.Keywords: Document Genres; Genre Repertoires; Task Analysis; Information Use; Document Assessments

Automatic summarization focusing on document genre and text structure

This dissertation proposes a new automatic summarization method focusing on document genre and text structure , and verifies its effectiveness. "Document genre" refers to the type of document, such as a diary or a report. "Text structure" refers to the functional aspects of the text and divides the text into sentence units or components, according to their functional roles. This type of structure includes both the components and their organization within the text of a specific document genre. We used text structure and document genre to extract important sentences from source documents and to generate output summaries.

A model of genre in document layout

We present a framework for the describing the genres of illustrated documents, based on analysis at five levels: content structure, rhetorical structure, layout structure, navigation structure, and linguistic structure. We also include three sources of constraints under which a document might be produced and interpreted: canvas constraints, production constraints, and consumption constraints. Document genres are conceptualised as complex specifications composed of descriptions at each of the five levels that conform in characteristic ways to the three kinds of constraint. We propose that the eight parameters together form a ‘space’ of possible identities for documents, electronic or paper. The notion of ‘genre space’ captures the fact that it is possible for new genres to develop at different positions in the space, as well enabling relationships between document types, or even transformations between them, to be examined and described.

Document Genres: What We Bring from the Past, What We Design for the Future

Document Genres: What We Bring from the Past, What We Design for the Future

Identifying Document Genre to Improve Web Search Effectiveness

Identifying Document Genre to Improve Web Search Effectiveness