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The aim of this paper is to specify the ontological commitments of the theory of document genres proposed by J. Yates and W. Orlikowski. To this end, I construct a formal ontology of documents and genres in which to define the notions presupposed in the genre discourse. For the sake of decreasing ambiguity and confusion, I briefly describe the primitive terms in which this ontology is formulated.
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Garbacz, P. (2006). An Outline of a Formal Ontology of Genres. In: Lang, J., Lin, F., Wang, J. (eds) Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management. KSEM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4092. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11811220_14
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