[Corpora-List] Preliminary CfArticles - Special Issue of LVD Forum 2008, Vol. 23(2)

[Marina Santini]

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*** Call for Selected Articles ***

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

GUEST EDITORS (preliminary order):
Marina Santini (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Georg Rehm (Tübingen University, Germany)
Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK )
Alexander Mehler (Bielefeld University, Germany)

DESCRIPTION

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.

>>From the point of view of genre theory, the study on genres on the web
probes into the grey area at the crossing between semantics, pragmatics, and
information studies. The way in which people search for genres on the web is
very little explored, and only preliminary investigations are available so
far.

Regardless all these difficulties, 2007 has been an important year for
research on genres of digital documents. In addition to the genre minitrack
at the annual Hawaii' International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS,
usually held in January), three other events have added findings to genre
research, namely the Colloquium "Towards a Reference Corpus of Web Genres",
held in conjunction with Corpus Linguistics 2007 in Birmingham (UK), the
Workshop "Towards Genre-Enabled Search Engines: The Impact of NLP" held in
conjunction with RANLP 2007, at Bovorets (Bulgaria), and finally 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).

This LVD special issue on genre originates from the organisers of the
colloquium and the workshop mentioned in the previous paragraph.
Contributors to these events are encouraged to submit fully-revised and
extended articles based on their workshop papers or colloquium abstracts,
enhanced with additional findings and more in-depth analyses.

***We also encourage other researchers to submit articles to the special
issue.***

The  main themes that we would like to focus on this issue are:

* the construction of reference corpora of web genres
* the inclusion of genre classes in IR systems and automatic document
categorisation
* investigations on users' behavior with regards to searching by genre

CONTACT INFORMATION
For questions or comments, please contact the editors at
<webgenres([at])gmail([dot])com>.

SCHEDULE
Preliminary Call for Articles: 29 October 2007
First Call for Articles: 1 December 2007
Final Call for Articles: 1 February 2008
Papers due: 31 March 2008
Notification to authors: 1 June 2008
Final versions due:  30 June 2008
Publication:  Second half of 2008

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
All submissions will be peer-reviewed following the double-blind review
process of LVD. Please, use the style sheet available from <
http://www.ldv-forum.org/index.php?modus=style_sheets&language=en>.

Send your submission to <webgenres([at])gmail([dot])com> and specify
"Submission to LVD Forum 2008, Vol. 23(2)" in the Subject line.

ABOUT LVD
The LDV-Forum offers a publication platform for all researchers working in
the field of computational linguistics and language technology. LVD is an
open access journal and can accessed at <
http://www.ldv-forum.org/index.php?modus=home&language=en>.
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