Reference

@inproceedings{kessler97,
author={Brett Kessler and Geoff Nunberg and Hinrich Sch\"{u}tze},
title={Automatic Detection of Genre},
year=1997,
booktitle={Proceedings of ACL 35 and EACL 8},
pages = {32--38},
publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann Publishers},
address = {San Francisco CA}
}

Abstract

As the text databases available to users become larger and more heterogeneous, genre becomes increasingly important for computational linguistics as a complement to topical and structural principles of classification. We propose a theory of genres as bundles of {\em facets,} which correlate with various surface cues, and argue that genre detection based on surface cues is as successful as detection based on deeper structural properties.