TCDL Bulletin
Current 2005
Volume 2   Issue 1

Mark A. Rosso
Meredith College, Raleigh, NC 27607
<rossom@meredith.edu>

With the advent of large, digital collections of heterogeneous documents (namely the World Wide Web, and large sub-collections thereof), attention to the prospect of using document genre to constrain document search has increased. A major issue to be resolved in this endeavor is the identification of what document categories should be used as the genres.

As genre is a "folk typology", document categories must enjoy widespread recognition by their intended user groups, in order to qualify as genres. This poster briefly describes a series of three user studies aimed at developing a set of web page categories that are widely recognized as genre.

Results, in the first study of this scale, showed that on average, over 70% of the final study's 257 participants agreed on the genre of the 55 webpages shown to them, having chosen from a typology of 18 genres. Further details on this study, and a subsequent study exploring the usefulness of annotating web search engine results with webpage genre, are reported in:

Rosso, M. (2005) Using Genre to Improve Web Search. Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. <http://ils.unc.edu/~rossm/Rosso_dissertation.pdf>.

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© Copyright 2005 Mark A. Rosso
Some or all of these materials were previously published in the Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital libraries, ACM 1-58113-876-8/05/0006.

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