Building a document genre corpus: a profile of the KRYS I corpus

Abstract

This paper describes the KRYS I corpus, consisting of documents classified into 70 genre classes. It has been constructed as part of an effort to automate document genre classification as distinct from topic detection. Previously there has been very little work on building corpora of texts which have been classified using a non-topical genre palette. The reason for this is partly due to the fact that genre as a concept, is rooted in philosophy, rhetoric and literature, and highly complex and domain dependent in its interpretation ([11]). The usefulness of genre in everyday information search is only now starting to be recognised and there is no genre classification schema that has been consolidated to have applicable value in this direction. By presenting here our experiences in constructing the KRYS I corpus, we hope to shed light on the information gathering and seeking behaviour and the role of genre in these activities, as well as a way forward for creating a better corpus for testing automated genre classification tasks and the application of these tasks to other domains.

Contributors

V. F. Berninger

Yunhyong Kim

Seamus Ross

Conference

Publication date: October 2008

Publication date (Print): October 2008

Pages: 1-10

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Digital Curation Centre (DCC)

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Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute(HATII)

University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/IRSG2008.2

Copyright statement: © V. F. Berninger et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. BCS-IRSG Workshop on Corpus Profiling

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Conference name: BCS-IRSG Workshop on Corpus Profiling

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Conference location: London

Conference date: 18 October 2008

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Workshop on Corpus Profiling

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing