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Decision Tree

First check the text for the typical characteristics in the section Quickstart. If none applies, continue to the Decision Tree below. To see the details on genre categories, click on their labels or go to the section Categories Explained.

Quickstart

Do any of the following genre type characteristics apply?

  • The text is not suitable for annotation (encoding issues, not Slovene, machine translation or generated text, HTML source code, no full sentences, multiple intertwined texts, too long - longer than 5,000 words, too short/incoherent) - Not Suitable
  • Form: questions and answers by one author - FAQ
  • Form: questions and answers (multiple people, more than one question) - Interview
  • Form: letter-like form (greeting, complimentary close etc.) adressed to a specific recipient - Correspondence
  • Form: verses - Lyrical
  • Form: (movie/drama) script - Script/Drama
  • Form: short paragraphs ending with three dots, “See more “, etc. - List of Summaries/Excerpts
  • Content: abstract, methods, results, discussion, conclusions and/or references; scientific terms - Research Article
  • Content: preparation of food/drinks - Recipe
  • Content: conversation (between multiple people) in form of comments - Forum
  • Language: legal terms - Legal/Regulation
  • Purpose: to invite the reader to an event/action - Invitation
  • Purpose: literary purpose - the main purpose is to give pleasure to the reader (and the text is not in a form of verses or a script) - Prose
  • Form and purpose: a short informal comment-like message that the user published on a platform to announce to the public his/her request/offer - Small Ad

If not, continue to the Decision Tree below.

Decision Tree

1. Objectiveness

Is the main purpose to objectively inform the reader? Does the text contain no or almost no subjective adjectives or adverbs (already, yet, only), words that convey certainty (surely, certainly) etc.?

  • Yes, it is a report on a recent event - News/Reporting
  • Yes, it addresses the readers and notifies them about new circumstances, asking them to act accordingly- Announcement
  • Yes, it instructs the readers on how to do something - Instruction
  • Yes, it asks the readers to submit a paper, project proposal, original literary text etc., stating requirements and a deadline - Call
  • Yes, but it is none of the above - Information/Explanation
  • No/Not sure - go to the question 2. Subjective text

2. Subjective text

What is the purpose of the text?

  • To subjectively report on a recent event - Opinionated News
  • To promote/sell products or services (a company) - go to 3. Promotion
  • To convey opinion or subjectively narrate personal experiences (no commercial purpose) - Opinion/Argumentation
  • To convey opinion on a product based on personal experiences - Review
  • The purpose of the text is indiscernible - not covered by other categories - Other

3. Promotion

Is the main purpose to promote/sell products or services? Does the text address the reader and includes subjective adjectives and adverbs?

If you are not sure, whether the text promotes a product or services, or if it promotes both, choose the main category - Promotion. If the 1st person is prevalent in the text, you could consider it as a Promotion of Services instead of a Promotion of a Product.

Categories Explained

Table of Contents:

Not Suitable

If the text is not suitable for annotation, please label it with one of the following categories:

  • Boilerplate: contains only the information in the header of footer (such as “Cookies”)
  • Encoding Issues: there are issues with encoding/OCR. Note: If the text is written without diacritics (c, s, and z instead of č, ć, š, and ž), annotate it with genres, do not discard it.
  • Generated Text: a text that was automatically generated based on a form.
  • HTML Source Code: contains tags that are a part of a HTML code
  • Machine Translation: a text is an obvious machine translation (contains words that do not exist in the target language, wrong declensions of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and wrong conjugation of verbs, incoherent text)
  • Multiple Texts: contains intertwined texts of various genres (e.g. an article which includes a whole letter). It is not possible to insert a boundary between two paragraphs that would separate the text into two texts of different genres.
  • Non-textual: does not consist of sentences (receipts, statistics, code, program, forms for making queries, purchases, downloading or logging in, link collection, image collection, search page, tables, calendar, lists: bibliography, list of events (agenda), directory of persons in organization or organizations, menu, dictionary, glossary, CV/resume etc.). Note: If a text consists of some lists and other non-textual elements, but includes sentences as well, do not discard it as “non-textual”.
  • Not Slovene/Not English/Not Croatian: contains a full sentence in a foreign language that is not our target language. If there are only a few foreign words in an otherwise Slovene/English/Croatian text, do not discard it.
  • Too Long: longer than 5,000 words
  • Too Short/Incoherent: it is not possible to ascertain genre based on the text as it is too short / the text is incoherent, makes no sense.

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News/Reporting

An objective text which reports on an event recent at the time of writing or coming in the near future.

Common features:

  • topic: recent event/activities
  • adverbs/adverbial clauses of time and/or place (dates, places)
  • many proper nouns
  • direct or reported speech
  • past tense

❕ Please note that direct or reported speech should be regarded as a part of news/reporting, even if it is more subjective. When deciding whether the text is subjective or not, please disregard the reported speech.

❕ If the text has the form of an article that could be published in the news/in a magazine, and includes a lot of reported speech (he said, “…”), it can be annotated as News/Reporting, even if it does not report on a concrete event (see an example among the examples on the link below).

❕ If a text which reports about an event is subjective (consists of many subjective adjectives or adverbs and particles), annotate it as Opinionated News.

❕ If the authors describe their personal experience and there are doubts whether the text belongs to Opinionated News, News/Reporting or Opinion/Argumentation, consider whether there are any dates and locations mentioned. If yes and if it seems likely that such text would be published in a newspaper or as a news on a website of an organisation, annotate it as Opinionated News (if it is subjective) or News/Reporting (if it is objective). See more details and examples here.

❕ If the text reports on an event/product, but is very promotional, annotate it as Promotion + News/Reporting (use Promotion the primary label and News/Reporting as the secondary label).

Examples: news report, sports report, travel blog, reportage, police report.

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Announcement

An objective text which notifies the readers about new circumstances, asking them to act accordingly. Unlike invitation (promotion) there is no intent to sell/promote – it is objective and factual.

Common features:

  • 1st person
  • addressing the reader (usage of 2nd person)
  • adverbs/adverbial clauses of time and/or place (dates, places)
  • common words/expressions (Slovene: “obvestilo, pozivati, obveščati, prositi”, Croatian: “obavijest, obaviještavamo, molimo vas”)

❕ Unless the presence of features of News/Reporting is significant, avoid adding “News/Reporting” as the secondary category to this genre, as many Announcements intrinsically contain also some information on past events (see an example among the examples on the link below).

❔ How to differentiate between an Announcement and an Invitation? See more details here.

Examples: notification (error message), announcement (“we would like to inform you”).

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Instruction

An objective text which instructs the readers on how to do something.

Common features:

  • multiple steps/actions
  • chronological order
  • 1st person plural or 2nd person
  • modality (must, have to, need to, can, etc.)
  • adverbial clauses of manner (in a way that), of condition (if), of time (after …)
  • common words/expressions (“it is good/smart/best to …”)

❕ If a text has features of an instruction, but it is subjective (contains subjective adjectives or adverbs, words that convey certainty), annotate it as Opinion/Argumentation as the primary category, and use the secondary category Instruction.

❕ if the text informs the reader what has to be done (rules) with many modal verbs, but does not address the reader (using 1st or 2nd person) - is more administrative, then annotate it as Instruction (primary category) + Information/Explanation (secondary category). See an example on the link below.

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Recipe

An objective text which instructs the readers on how to prepare food or drinks.

Common features:

  • topic: food/drinks
  • list of ingredients
  • adverbs/adverbial clauses of manner
  • multiple steps

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Information/Explanation

An objective text that describes or presents an event, a person, a thing, a concept etc. Its main purpose is to inform the reader about something.

Common features:

  • objective/factual: contains no or almost no adjectives/adverbs that convey opinion or promote something (great, awful, high-quality)
  • explanation/definition of a concept (x is …)
  • enumeration

❕ If the text describes a product or a service but is not subjective nor does it address the reader - annotate it as Information/Explanation (it is an objective description), not as Promotion. See examples on the link below.

❕ If the text is more subjective than objective or there are quantitatively more features of another genre, choose this genre instead of Information/Explanation.

Examples: informational blog, product specification, course materials, syllabus, textbook, general information, job description, manual, horoscope, travel guide, (informational) PowerPoint slides, encyclopedia article, glossaries (textual - containing full sentences), historical article, biographical story/history.

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Research Article

An objective text which presents research, uses formal language and scientific terms. The text is clearly structured.

Common features:

  • at least one of the following titles of a paragraph: abstract, an introduction, methods, results, conclusion, references
  • formal language
  • scientific terms
  • citations
  • common words (thesis, paper, research, methods, aim, study, etc.)

Examples: research article, abstract.

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Call

An objective text which asks the readers to submit a paper, project proposal, original literary text etc.

It consists of:

  • a deadline
  • a description of the call
  • requirements that need to be fulfilled
  • instructions on how to submit your proposal
  • a contact (where should the call be submitted)

Common features:

  • written in 1st person
  • addressing the readers (2nd person)
  • common words (Slovene: “poziv, natečaj”, Croatian: “poziv, natječaj”)

❕ If the text only describes something (e.g., a study program, a job position) and has no other characteristics of a Call (a deadline, instructions, requirements etc.), it is not a Call.

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Legal/Regulation

An objective formal text that contains legal terms and is clearly structured. The name of the text type is often included in the headline (contract, rules, amendment, general terms and conditions, etc.).

Common features:

  • objective/factual: contains no or almost no adjectives/adverbs that convey opinion or promote something (great, awful, high-quality)
  • legal terms (Slovene: splošni pogoji, pravica, akt, pravilnik, zakon, uredba, Uradni list, člen, pogodba, obveznost, globa, vloga)
  • common words/expressions (Slovene: pridržati, biti dolžan, pisno dovoljenje, prepovedan, kaznovati, jamčiti, odgovarjati, zavezati se)
  • modality (must, can, cannot, should not, need to)
  • 3rd person

❕ If the text is a explanation of a law, a layman’s interpretation, which means that the topic of the text is law, but the text does not have features of Legal/Regulation (it does not include legalese, very clear structure), annotate it as Information/Explanation (primary label) + Legal/Regulation (secondary label). See examples on the link below.

Examples: small print, software license, rule, proclamation, terms and conditions, contracts, law, copyright notices, university regulation …

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Opinionated News

A subjective text which reports on an event recent at the time of writing or coming in the near future.

❕ If the authors describe their personal experience and there are doubts whether the text belongs to Opinionated News, News/Reporting or Opinion/Argumentation, consider whether there are any dates and locations mentioned. If yes and if it seems likely that such text would be published in a newspaper or as a news on a website of an organisation, annotate it as Opinionated News (if it is subjective) or News/Reporting (if it is objective). See more details and examples here.

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Opinion/Argumentation

A subjective text in which the authors convey their opinion or narrate their experience. It includes promotion of an ideology and other non-commercial causes. In contrast to Promotion, the main purpose of the text is not promoting a product, a service or an event. This genre includes a subjective narration of a personal experience as well.

Common features:

  • subjective: contains adjectives/adverbs that convey opinion (happy, great, aweful)
  • words that convey (un)certainty (certainly, surely; Slovene: (za)gotovo, seveda, res je, dejansko, jasno)
  • Slovene: Slovene particle (členek – že, še, le, tudi, sploh …)
  • 1st person
  • exclamation marks

❕ If the authors describe their personal experience and there are doubts whether the text belongs to Opinionated News, News/Reporting or Opinion/Argumentation, consider whether there are any dates and locations mentioned. If not and if it seems unlikely that such text would be published on a news site (it looks more like a blog), annotate it as Opinion/Argumentation. See more details and examples here.

❕ If the text is written in 1st person, that does not necessarily mean that it is Opinion/Argumentation - if the text is objective, it could be Information/Explanation (see an example on a link below).

❔ How to differentiate between Opinion/Argumentation and Promotion? See more details here.

Examples: blog (personal blog, travel blog), editorial, advice, letter to editor, persuasive article or essay, formal speech, pamphlet, political propaganda, columns, political manifesto.

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Review

a text in which authors evaluate a certain entity (a publication, a product, or a service, such as a movie, a video game, a musical composition, or a book) by endorsing or criticizing it. They usually report their personal experience with the product. It can be differentiated from the promotional text by the usage of 1st person and conveying personal experience with the product.

Common features:

  • 1st person
  • topic: product or service
  • common words/expressions (Slovene: kaj je treba upoštevati, bomo preučili, kateri je najboljši, izbrati, vreden denarja, vredno investirati, kakovost, priporočati, primeren)

❕ Use this category only for texts in which the authors convey their personal experience with the product. If the text compares multiple products, but it is not based on personal experience, annotate it as Promotion of a Product (primary label) + Review (secondary category). See more details here.

❕ If the text consists of quotes of people providing their feedback (reporting personal experience with a product/service), we annotate it as Review (see an example on a link below).

❕ If the reviews are written in a form of comments (e.g., review comments in e-shops), annotate the text as Forum (primary category) and Review (secondary category). See examples of such text here.

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Promotion

A subjective text intended to sell or promote an event, product, or service. It addresses the readers, often trying to convince them to participate in something or buy something. This category includes the subcategories Promotion of a Product, Promotion of Services and Invitation and is used when the text has features of promotion, but we are not sure under which of the subcategories it belongs.

Common features:

  • subjective: contains adjectives/adverbs that promote something (high-quality, perfect, amazing, extraordinary, comfortable, extremely, very)
  • comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs (the best, the greatest, the cheapest)
  • addressing the reader (usage of 2nd person)
  • exclamation marks

❕ Even if the text promotes a free product, it is still regarded as promotion (it promotes for instance the benefits of eating beans) - if the author writes positively about something that could be bought and the text could appear under a product in a e-shop, this is more of a Promotion than Information/Explanation - annotate it as Promotion (of a Product). See examples of such instances here.

❕ If the text describes a product or a service but is not subjective nor does it address the reader - annotate it as Information/Explanation (it is an objective description). See such instances here.

❕ If the text is an review (the author conveys her/his personal experience with the product), it is regarded as Review and not Promotion, although it could have some promotional features.

❔ How to differentiate between Promotion of a Product and Promotion of Services? See more details here. If you are still unsure, annotate the text as Promotion.

❔ How to differentiate between Opinion/Argumentation and Promotion? See more details here.

Examples: advertisement, description with intent to sell, e-shop.

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Promotion of a Product

A subjective text which promotes a product, a movie, an application, a tool, or an accommodation, housing, etc.

Common features:

  • 3rd person
  • subjective adjectives and adverbs
  • exclamation marks
  • addressing the reader (2nd person)
  • common words/expressions (Slovene: ugodnost, popust, spletna trgovina, koristen, čudovit, priročen, posebnost, nič več, rešitev, na srečo, izboljšati, kakovost, želje, dolga življenjska doba)

Examples: an advertisement, a product presentation page, an e-shop catalogue page.

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❕ Even if the text promotes a free product, it is still regarded as promotion (it promotes for instance the benefits of eating beans) - if the author writes positively about something that could be bought and the text could appear under a product in a e-shop, this is more of a Promotion than Information/Explanation - annotate it as Promotion (of a Product). See examples of such instances here.

❕ If the text describes a product or a service but is not subjective nor does it address the reader - annotate it as Information/Explanation (it is an objective description). See such instances here.

❕ If the text compares multiple products, but it is not based on personal experience, annotate it as Promotion of a Product (primary label) + Review (secondary category). See more details below.

❔ How to differentiate between Promotion of a Product and Promotion of Services? See more details here. If you are still unsure, annotate the text as Promotion.

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Promotion of a Product + Review

If the text compares multiple products, but it is not based on personal experience, this is more of a Promotion than a Review - annotate it as Promotion of a Product (primary label) + Review (secondary label).

Common features:

  • comparison of specific products
  • subjective adjectives (great, amazing)
  • common words/expressions (Slovene: prvo mesto, najboljši, najugodnejši, najvišji, lestvica, pregled ponudb; English: first place, the best, the cheapest, the highest, rank)

❕ If the author just describes which type of a e.g. brush should be used for a specific task, and does not compare specific brushes (which one among them is the best), this is Instruction, not a comparison between the products.

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Promotion of Services

A subjective text which promotes services of a company.

Common features:

  • 1st person
  • subjective adjectives and adverbs
  • addressing the readers (2nd person)
  • common words/expressions (Slovene: strokovnjaki, specialisti, partner, stranke, naročniki, kupci, izkušnje, storitve, nabor storitev, servis, potrebe, želje, rešitve, koristi, fleksibilnost, inovativnost, učinkovitost, strokovnost, pomagati, izvajati, svetovati, ponujati, zagotavljati, obvladati, po vaši meri, celosten, konkurenčen, hitro, natančno, profesionalno)

Example: a company landing page.

❔ How to differentiate between Promotion of a Product and Promotion of Services? See more details here. If you are still unsure, annotate the text as Promotion.

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Invitation

A text which invites the readers to participate in an event or an action (such as asking for donations).

Common features:

  • 1st person
  • the author of the text is the organiser of the event
  • adressing the reader (2nd person)
  • subjective adjectives
  • common words/expressions (invite, join us)
  • future tense
  • adverbs/adverbial clauses of time and/or place (dates, places)
  • exclamation marks

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❕ Annotate the text as Invitation only if it explicitly invites the readers (addresses the reader) or is very subjective. Otherwise, if the text solely reports that an event is going to happen, does not address the readers and it does not seem that the author is the organiser of the event, annotate it as News/Reporting. See an instance of such text here.

❔ How to differentiate between an Announcement and an Invitation? See more details here.

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Promotion + News/Reporting

If a text reports on an event/product, which means that it has characteristics of the News/Reporting genre, but is very promotional (so promotional that parts of the article could be used in an advertisement, e.g. “Cannon - Revolutionary. The best in the world. A perfect novelty.”), annotate it as Promotion (primary label) and News/Reporting (secondary label). (instead of Promotion, you can use also more specific promotional labels - Promotion of a Product, Promotion of Services etc.)

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❔ How to differentiate between Opinionated News and a Promotion + News/Reporting text? If the text is a subjective report on an event, the default choice should be Opinionated News, unless it includes promotional slogans which could appear in an advertisement as well, then use Promotion + News/Reporting labels. See an example among the examples on the link above.

Interview

A text consisting of questions posed by the interviewer and answers by the interviewee. It should consist of more than 1 question and 1 answer.

Common features:

  • questions and answers
  • involves multiple people

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❕ If the text could belong to the “Questions from our readers” section, i.e. texts where the author writes to a doctor or another expert to help him/her regarding a specific concern, and the expert publishes the question and the answer, annotate it as Correspondence, not Interview. In contrast to the Interview, these texts consists only of one question (the reader’s question) and one answer (the expert’s answer), not multiple questions and answers.

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Forum

A text in which people discuss a certain topic in form of comments.

Common features:

  • multiple authors
  • informal language
  • subjective (the writers express their opinions)
  • written in 1st person

Examples: comments, QA forum, reader/viewer responses.

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❕ If the text consists of only one comment, which has characteristics of a Forum still annotate as a Forum, even though there are not multiple people who discuss the topic.

❕ If all of the comments are reviews - the authors do not discuss the topic, each just wrote a review on a product/restaurant/etc. in a form of a comment, annotate the text as Forum (primary category) and Review (secondary category). See examples of such text on the link above.

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Small Ad

A short informal comment-like message that the user published on a platform to announce to the public his/her request/offer. The author is the user of the site, however, in contrast to the Forum, the user’s text is not a part of a discussion, solely an announcement to other readers. The text is usually posted on a specialised platform for small ads, such as Bolha (Slovene), Craig’s List etc.

Common features:

  • written in 1st person
  • informal language
  • short message with short sentences
  • common words/expressions (Slovene: podarim, prodam, oddam, kupim, iščem)

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Correspondence

A text, addressed to a person or organization with a form, similar to a letter, i.e. including a greeting, a complimentary close etc.

Common features:

  • written in 1st person
  • addresses the reader (2nd person)
  • common words/expressions, including the greeting, complimentary close (Slovene: Spoštovani, Dragi, Lep pozdrav etc.; English: Dear X, Best Regards, Kind Regards etc.)

Examples: a love letter, a letter to the expert, asking for help, etc.

❕ This category includes texts from “Questions from our readers” sections, i.e. texts where the author writes to a doctor or another expert to help him/her regarding a specific concern, and the expert publishes the question and the answer. See an example on the link below. In contrast to the Interview, these texts consists only of one question (the reader’s question) and one answer (the expert’s answer), not multiple questions and answers.

❕ If the text is written in a form of a letter and it addresses the reader, it is annotated as Correspondence, even if it seems that the author is not expecting an answer from the receipent (e.g., a letter to the president).

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Script/Drama

A literary text that mostly consists of dialogue of characters, stage directions and instructions to the actors. It is meant to be spoken, played out.

Common features:

  • dialogue of characters
  • common words (Slovene: dejanje, prizor; English: act, stage, scene)

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Lyrical

A text that consists of verses.

Examples: lyrics, poems, prayers.

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Prose

A literary running text that consists of paragraphs. A literary text is deemed to have no other practical purpose than to give pleasure to the reader. Often the author pays attention to the aesthetic appearance of the text. It can be considered as art.

❕ This category includes jokes.

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FAQ

A text consisting of questions and answers written by the same author with the purpose to inform the reader about something or how to do something.

Common features:

  • questions and answers (one author – it is not an interview)
  • title “Frequently Asked Questions”

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List of Summaries/Excerpts

A text which consists of summaries or excerpts of multiple articles/topics (usually from the article archive page).

Common features:

  • short paragraphs, all of a similar length
  • multiple headlines
  • each paragraph has a separate topic
  • paragraphs ending with three dots
  • common words/expressions (Read more, More, See more …)

❕ If the text consists of short paragraphs with similar length, and each paragraph has a separate topic, annotate it as List of Summaries/Excerpts, even if the text has a title. However, if multiple paragraphs have the same topic (see examples on the link below), then this is not a List of Summaries/Excerpt (annotate the genre according to other criteria in the Decision Tree). If you are unsure, you can add List of Summaries/Excerpt as the secondary category.

❕ If all paragraphs in the list of summaries/excerpts have features of the same genre (e.g. it is a list of summaries of news articles), you can add this genre as a secondary category.

❕ If a text consists of only one paragraph, but it is obvious that this would be a part of a list of summaries/excerpts (the text ends with three dots, “See more” etc.), annotate it as List of Summaries/Excerpts.

Examples: summaries/excerpts of articles (news archive), summaries of series/movies in a TV program.

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Other

A text that is appropriate for annotation but has no clear purpose or tangible features based on which it could be annotated - a non-literary text, which does not fall under any of the categories based on its purpose.

Texts that belong to the category Other:

  • quiz
  • survey
  • introduction into the magazine’s content, introduction to a video
  • summary of a movie/book
  • speech (if it cannot fit under Opinion/Argumentation)
  • sermon
  • user’s consent for data sharing
  • texts inviting the readers to participate in a giveaway, to submit their proposals or fill out a form
  • exam, exercise, worksheet

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If possible, when annotating the text as Other, add a note to which new genre it could belong. If there are many instances of this genre, it can become a new genre category.

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