Semantic Analysis of Song Lyrics

Logan, Beth ; Kositsky, Andrew ; Moreno, Pedro

HP Development Company

关键词: multimedia indexing;    rich media;    music;   

RP-ID  :  HPL-2004-66

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: HP Labs

【 摘 要 】

We explore the use of song lyrics for automatic indexing of music. Using lyrics mined from the Web we apply a standard text processing technique to characterize their semantic content. We then determine artist similarity in this space. We found lyrics can be used to discover natural genre clusters. Experiments on a publicly available set of 399 artists showed that determining artist similarity using lyrics is better than random but inferior to a state-of-the- art acoustic similarity technique. However, the approaches made different errors, suggesting they could be profitably combined. Notes: Copyright IEEE To be published in and presented at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 27-30 June 2004, Taipei, Taiwan 7 Pages