Table of Contents

Preface (by James R. Martin) Personal Note List of Contributors Part I Introduction- Riding the Rough Waves of Genre on the Web, Marina Santini, Alexander Mehler, Serge Sharoff.- Part II Identifying the Sources of Web Genres - Conventions and Mutual Expectations, Jussi Karlgren .- Identification of Web Genres by User Warrant, Mark A. Rosso, Stephanie W. Haas .- Problems in the Use-Centered Development of a Taxonomy of Web Genres, Kevin Crowston, Barbara Kwasnik, Joseph Rubleske .- Part III Automatic Web Genre Identification - Cross-Testing a Genre Classification Model for the Web, Marina Santini .- Formulating Representative Features with Respect to Genre Classification, Yunhyong Kim, Seamus Ross .- In the Garden and in the Jungle, Serge Sharoff .- Web Genre Analysis: Use Cases, Retrieval Models and Implementation Issues, Benno Stein and Sven Meyeer zu Eissen and Nedim Lipka .- Marrying Relevance and Genre Rankings: an Exploratory Study, Pavel Braslavski .- Part IV Structure-Oriented Models of Web Genres - Classification of Web Sites at Super-genre Level, Christoph Lindemann, Lars Littig .- Mining Graph Patterns in Web-based Systems: A Conceptual View, Matthias Dehmer and Frank Emmert-Streib .- Genre Connectivity and Genre Drift in a Web of Genres, Lennart Bjorneborn .- Part V Case Studies of Web Genres - Genre Emergence in Amateur Flash, John C. Paolillo, Jonathan Warren, Breanne Kunz .- Variation Among Blogs: A Multi-dimensional Analysis, Jack Grieve, Douglas Biber, Eric Friginal, Tatiana Nekrasova .- Evolving Genres in Online Domains: The Hybrid Genre of the Participatory News Article, Ian Bruce .- Prospect - Any Land in Sight? Marina Santini, Serge Sharoff, Alexander Mehler .- Subject Index

Reviews

From the reviews:“Genres on the Web is an edited volume consisting of fifteen studies which delve into a wide range of topics. … This book is an invaluable resource for corpus and computational linguists, as well as those who specialise in areas such as natural language processing, information retrieval and web data mining. … Overall, Genres on the Web is an impressive collection of scholarly work which is destined to become an important reference for anyone with interests in the language and genres of the Internet.” (Jesse Egbert, Corpora, Vol. 7 (1), 2012)