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MusicMood: Predicting the mood of music from song lyrics using machine learning

Machine Learning 2016-11-02 v1 Computation and Language Information Retrieval

Abstract

Sentiment prediction of contemporary music can have a wide-range of applications in modern society, for instance, selecting music for public institutions such as hospitals or restaurants to potentially improve the emotional well-being of personnel, patients, and customers, respectively. In this project, music recommendation system built upon on a naive Bayes classifier, trained to predict the sentiment of songs based on song lyrics alone. The experimental results show that music corresponding to a happy mood can be detected with high precision based on text features obtained from song lyrics.

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@article{arxiv.1611.00138,
  title  = {MusicMood: Predicting the mood of music from song lyrics using machine learning},
  author = {Sebastian Raschka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.00138},
  year   = {2016}
}

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9 pages, 5 figures