{"581887":{"#nid":"581887","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dr.Larson published a paper titled \u0022Use What You Choose: Applying Computational Methods to Genre Studies in Technical Communication\u0022","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s1\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/larson\u0022\u003EDr.Larson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s2\u0022\u003E published a paper titled \u0026quot;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/325016948\/Larson-Et-Al-2016-Use-What-You-Choose\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s3\u0022\u003EUse What You Choose: Applying Computational Methods to Genre Studies in Technical Communication\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026quot; with his co-authors in the peer-reviewed proceedings of the 2016 annual meeting of the ACM Special Interest Group on Design of Communication.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s2\u0022\u003EDr.Larson presented the paper with NC State\u0026#39;s Douglas Walls at the SIGDOC conferences in Silver Springs, MD on September 23.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s2\u0022\u003EThis paper reports on the results of an intensive application development workshop held in the summer of 2015 during which a group of thirteen researchers came together to explore the use of machine-learning algorithms in technical communication. To do this they analyzed Amazon.com consumer electronic product customer reviews to reevaluate a central concept in North American Genre Theory: stable genre structures arise from recurring social actions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s2\u0022\u003EThey discovered evidence of genre hybridity in the signals of instructional genres embedded into customer reviews. The paper discusses the creation of a prototype web application, \u0026ldquo;Use What You Choose\u0026rdquo; (UWYC), which sorts the natural language text of Amazon reviews into two categories: instructionally-weighed reviews (e.g., reviews that contain operational information about products) and non- instructionally-weighed reviews (those that evaluate the quality of the product). We developed the prototype application over approximately 48 hours using a modified version of the agile\/scrum methodology. Our results contribute to rhetorical genre theory and offer ideas on applying genre theory to inform application design for users of information services.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dr.Larson published a paper titled \u0022Use What You Choose: Applying Computational Methods to Genre Studies in Technical Communication\u0022 with his co-authors in the peer-reviewed proceedings of the 2016 annual meeting of the ACM Special Interest Group on Desig"}],"uid":"33884","created_gmt":"2016-09-29 16:01:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-03 17:23:55","author":"Gayatri Gaekwad","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-09-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-09-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}