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Music preference was reported as a factor, which could elicit innermost music emotion, entailing accurate ground-truth data and music therapy efficiency. This study executes statistical analysis to investigate the distinction of music…

Music evokes profound emotions, yet the universality of emotional descriptors across languages remains debated. A key challenge in cross-cultural research on music emotion is biased stimulus selection and manual curation of taxonomies,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Elif Celen , Pol van Rijn , Harin Lee , Nori Jacoby

Lyric translation plays a pivotal role in amplifying the global resonance of music, bridging cultural divides, and fostering universal connections. Translating lyrics, unlike conventional translation tasks, requires a delicate balance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Haven Kim , Kento Watanabe , Masataka Goto , Juhan Nam

In recent years, the use of large language models (LLMs) to generate music content, particularly lyrics, has gained in popularity. These advances provide valuable tools for artists and enhance their creative processes, but they also raise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Yanis Labrak , Markus Frohmann , Gabriel Meseguer-Brocal , Elena V. Epure

Spoken content processing (such as retrieval and browsing) is maturing, but the singing content is still almost completely left out. Songs are human voice carrying plenty of semantic information just as speech, and may be considered as a…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Che-Ping Tsai , Yi-Lin Tuan , Lin-shan Lee

Do people from different cultural backgrounds perceive the mood in music the same way? How closely do human ratings across different cultures approximate automatic mood detection algorithms that are often trained on corpora of predominantly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Harin Lee , Frank Hoeger , Marc Schoenwiesner , Minsu Park , Nori Jacoby

Music genre classification, especially using lyrics alone, remains a challenging topic in Music Information Retrieval. In this study we apply recurrent neural network models to classify a large dataset of intact song lyrics. As lyrics…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Alexandros Tsaptsinos

We present the WASABI Song Corpus, a large corpus of songs enriched with metadata extracted from music databases on the Web, and resulting from the processing of song lyrics and from audio analysis. More specifically, given that lyrics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Michael Fell , Elena Cabrio , Elmahdi Korfed , Michel Buffa , Fabien Gandon

Translating lyrics for musicals presents unique challenges due to the need to ensure high translation quality while adhering to singability requirements such as length and rhyme. Existing song translation approaches often prioritize these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Zhuorui Ye , Jinhan Li , Rongwu Xu

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

Background music in social interaction settings can hinder conversation. Yet, little is known of how specific properties of music impact speech processing. This paper addresses this knowledge gap by investigating 1) whether the masking…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Odette Scharenborg , Martha Larson

Lyrics play a significant role in conveying the song's mood and are information to understand and interpret music communication. Conventional natural language processing approaches use translation of the Hindi text into English for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Makarand Velankar , Rachita Kotian , Parag Kulkarni

Lyric translation, a field studied for over a century, is now attracting computational linguistics researchers. We identified two limitations in previous studies. Firstly, lyric translation studies have predominantly focused on Western…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Haven Kim , Jongmin Jung , Dasaem Jeong , Juhan Nam

When songs are composed or performed, there is often an intent by the singer/songwriter of expressing feelings or emotions through it. For humans, matching the emotiveness in a musical composition or performance with the subjective…

Music can evoke various emotions, and with the advancement of technology, it has become more accessible to people. Bangla music, which portrays different human emotions, lacks sufficient research. The authors of this article aim to analyze…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Maliha Mahajebin , Mohammad Rifat Ahmmad Rashid , Nafees Mansoor

The aim of this study is to teach an algorithm how to recognize different types of music. Users will submit songs for analysis. Since the algorithm hasn't heard these songs before, it needs to figure out what makes each song unique. It does…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Navin Kamuni , Dheerendra Panwar

The central idea of this paper is to demonstrate the strength of lyrics for music mining and natural language processing (NLP) tasks using the distributed representation paradigm. For music mining, we address two prediction tasks for songs:…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Manash Pratim Barman , Kavish Dahekar , Abhinav Anshuman , Amit Awekar

We discuss a novel task, Chorus Recognition, which could potentially benefit downstream tasks such as song search and music summarization. Different from the existing tasks such as music summarization or lyrics summarization relying on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Jiaan Wang , Zhixu Li , Binbin Gu , Tingyi Zhang , Qingsheng Liu , Zhigang Chen

We examine user and song identification from neural (EEG) signals. Owing to perceptual subjectivity in human-media interaction, music identification from brain signals is a challenging task. We demonstrate that subjective differences in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Gulshan Sharma , Pankaj Pandey , Ramanathan Subramanian , Krishna. P. Miyapuram , Abhinav Dhall

How does our society appreciate the uniqueness of cultural products? This fundamental puzzle has intrigued scholars in many fields, including psychology, sociology, anthropology, and marketing. It has been theorized that cultural products…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Yulin Yu , Pui Yin Cheung , Yong-Yeol Ahn , Paramveer Dhillon