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One of the key points in music recommendation is authoring engaging playlists according to sentiment and emotions. While previous works were mostly based on audio for music discovery and playlists generation, we take advantage of our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Loreto Parisi , Simone Francia , Silvio Olivastri , Maria Stella Tavella

Perceptual similarity representations enable music retrieval systems to determine which songs sound most similar to listeners. State-of-the-art approaches based on task-specific training via self-supervised metric learning show promising…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Arhan Vohra , Taketo Akama

Existing methods to measure sentence similarity are faced with two challenges: (1) labeled datasets are usually limited in size, making them insufficient to train supervised neural models; (2) there is a training-test gap for unsupervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Xiaofei Sun , Yuxian Meng , Xiang Ao , Fei Wu , Tianwei Zhang , Jiwei Li , Chun Fan

This work addresses the problem of matching short excerpts of audio with their respective counterparts in sheet music images. We show how to employ neural network-based cross-modality embedding spaces for solving the following two sheet…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Matthias Dorfer , Andreas Arzt , Gerhard Widmer

Existing computational studies of popular music primarily model aggregate trends or predict chart performance, offering limited support for interpreting artist-level alignment against historical stylistic baselines. We introduce an…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jiyeon Bae , Jinwook Seo

Audio-text relevance learning refers to learning the shared semantic properties of audio samples and textual descriptions. The standard approach uses binary relevances derived from pairs of audio samples and their human-provided captions,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Huang Xie , Khazar Khorrami , Okko Räsänen , Tuomas Virtanen

We introduce a data-centric hypothesis-testing framework to quantify the influence of sequentially correlated literary properties--such as thematic continuity--on textual classification tasks. Our method models label sequences as stochastic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Gideon Yoffe , Nachum Dershowitz , Ariel Vishne , Barak Sober

Semantic embeddings play a crucial role in natural language-based information retrieval. Embedding models represent words and contexts as vectors whose spatial configuration is derived from the distribution of words in large text corpora.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Silvan David Peter , Shreyan Chowdhury , Carlos Eduardo Cancino-Chacón , Gerhard Widmer

Nowadays, humans are constantly exposed to music, whether through voluntary streaming services or incidental encounters during commercial breaks. Despite the abundance of music, certain pieces remain more memorable and often gain greater…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Li-Yang Tseng , Tzu-Ling Lin , Hong-Han Shuai , Jen-Wei Huang , Wen-Whei Chang

The problem of detecting and measuring the repetitiveness of one-dimensional strings has been extensively studied in data compression and text indexing. Our understanding of these issues has been significantly improved by the introduction…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Lorenzo Carfagna , Giovanni Manzini , Giuseppe Romana , Marinella Sciortino , Cristian Urbina

Music genre classification is a critical component of music recommendation systems, generation algorithms, and cultural analytics. In this work, we present an innovative model for classifying music genres using attention-based temporal…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Aditya Sridhar

Being able to automatically and quickly understand the user context during a session is a main issue for recommender systems. As a first step toward achieving that goal, we propose a model that observes in real time the diversity brought by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Sylvain Castagnos , Amaury L 'Huillier , Anne Boyer

Musical score following is the real-time mapping of a performance to corresponding locations in a musical score. Score following can be used in a variety of applications including automatic page turning and real-time accompaniment. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Josephine Cowley

Recent advancements in audio generation have enabled the creation of high-fidelity audio clips from free-form textual descriptions. However, temporal relationships, a critical feature for audio content, are currently underrepresented in…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Zeyu Xie , Xuenan Xu , Zhizheng Wu , Mengyue Wu

We propose a novel approach for spoofed speech characterization through explainable probabilistic attribute embeddings. In contrast to high-dimensional raw embeddings extracted from a spoofing countermeasure (CM) whose dimensions are not…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Manasi Chhibber , Jagabandhu Mishra , Hyejin Shim , Tomi H. Kinnunen

This paper aims to test whether a multi-modal approach for music emotion recognition (MER) performs better than a uni-modal one on high-level song features and lyrics. We use 11 song features retrieved from the Spotify API, combined lyrics…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Tibor Krols , Yana Nikolova , Ninell Oldenburg

Similarity is a core notion that is used in psychology and two branches of linguistics: theoretical and computational. The similarity datasets that come from the two fields differ in design: psychological datasets are focused around a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-20 Dmitrijs Milajevs , Sascha Griffiths

Most music source separation systems require large collections of isolated sources for training, which can be difficult to obtain. In this work, we use musical scores, which are comparatively easy to obtain, as a weak label for training a…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Yun-Ning Hung , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux

Semantic text similarity plays an important role in software engineering tasks in which engineers are requested to clarify the semantics of descriptive labels (e.g., business terms, table column names) that are often consists of too short…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Toshihiro Takahashi , Takaaki Tateishi , Michiaki Tatsubori

Music emotion recognition is an important task in MIR (Music Information Retrieval) research. Owing to factors like the subjective nature of the task and the variation of emotional cues between musical genres, there are still significant…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Shreyan Chowdhury , Verena Praher , Gerhard Widmer