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Hypertext Types and Markup Languages

The Relationship Between HTML and Web Genres

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Part of the book series: Text, Speech and Language Technology ((TLTB,volume 41))

Abstract

Text technological applications such as automatic summarisation or information extraction systems often process web documents. An important aspect of web documents that most systems ignore is the document type or document genre and the relationship the respective genre, as well as genres in general, have with regard to the Hypertext Markup Language. This chapter introduces the concept of hypertext types to highlight some of the most relevant aspects and applications. Hypertext types are very similar to traditional text types because hypertexts can be grouped into categories that share certain linguistic, textual, or pragmatic features such as communicative function, hypertextual structure, or content. Processing web documents based on their genres entails several advantages, the most prominent of which is the automatic identification of web genres for improved information retrieval aproaches.

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Rehm, G. (2010). Hypertext Types and Markup Languages. In: Witt, A., Metzing, D. (eds) Linguistic Modeling of Information and Markup Languages. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 41. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3331-4_8

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