Album art often reflects the trends and themes of the songs in a given collection, and even the identities of the musicians who produced it. It therefore plays a central role in fomenting a potential listener’s first impression of the work. As ...

Music sharing trends have been shown to change during times of socio-economic crises. Studies have also shown that music can act as a social surrogate, helping to significantly reduce loneliness by acting as an empathetic friend. We explored these ...

Authorship attribution has been largely investigated based on writing style analysis to identify the author of a given document. This paper describes a supervised approach to identify the lyricist for a given Tamil film lyric document for the ...

Music is one of the most important factors of human lives. People express their inner thoughts, emotions and feelings with the combination of both lyrics and musical instruments. With the passage of time, languages have also evolved and the structure ...

Over the recent years, there has been numerous studies on explicit music classification in an attempt to classify explicit music which are inappropriate for younger audiences. While several previous studies have been conducted using music lyrics and ...

The task of identifying emotions from a given music track has been an active pursuit in the Music Information Retrieval (MIR) community for years. Music emotion recognition has typically relied on acoustic features, social tags, and other metadata ...

When studying how mental illness may be reflected in people’s social media use, content not written by the users is often ignored, because it might not reflect their own emotions. In this paper, we examine whether the mood of quotes posted on ...

Recent evolution of the Internet has made it possible to listen to music that is composed worldwide in foreign languages. However, lyrics that are entirely scripted in foreign languages are difficult to understand. An interactive system for the ...

Pop lyrics represent a rich, but underused resource in language teaching in both institutional and informal contexts. This is striking in view of analyses from the fields of motivational and cognitive psychology, didactics as well as linguistics, which ...

Learners can listen to music and read the synchronous lyrics using this mobile music playing application. The proposed system will make questions that correspond to lyrics for EFL (English as Foreign Language) learners studying. This approach focuses on ...

This paper presents "Lyricon", a technique that automatically selects multiple icons of tunes block-by-block, and effectively displays the icons. Here, Lyricon selects icons based on not only musical features, but also lyrical keywords. In other words, ...