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Natural language processing of lyrics

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Fabien GouyonAuthors Info & Claims

MULTIMEDIA '05: Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia

Pages 475 - 478

https://doi.org/10.1145/1101149.1101255

Published: 06 November 2005 Publication History

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We report experiments on the use of standard natural language processing (NLP) tools for the analysis of music lyrics. A significant amount of music audio has lyrics. Lyrics encode an important part of the semantics of a song, therefore their analysis complements that of acoustic and cultural metadata and is fundamental for the development of complete music information retrieval systems. Moreover, a textual analysis of a song can generate ground truth data that can be used to validate results from purely acoustic methods. Preliminary results on language identification, structure extraction, categorization and similarity searches suggests that a lot of profit can be gained from the analysis of lyrics.

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Natural language processing of lyrics
1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities
    1. Sound and music computing
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Specialized information retrieval
      1. Multimedia and multimodal retrieval
        Music retrieval

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MULTIMEDIA '05: Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia

November 2005

1110 pages

ISBN:1595930442

DOI:10.1145/1101149

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Hongjiang Zhang
Microsoft Research Asia, China
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Tat-Seng Chua
National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Ralf Steinmetz
Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany
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