Natural language processing of lyrics

  • Authors:
  • Jose P. G. Mahedero;Álvaro MartÍnez;Pedro Cano;Markus Koppenberger;Fabien Gouyon

  • Affiliations:
  • Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain;Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain;Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain;Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain;Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We report experiments on the use of standard natural language processing (NLP) tools for the analysis of music lyrics. A significant amount of music audio has lyrics. Lyrics encode an important part of the semantics of a song, therefore their analysis complements that of acoustic and cultural metadata and is fundamental for the development of complete music information retrieval systems. Moreover, a textual analysis of a song can generate ground truth data that can be used to validate results from purely acoustic methods. Preliminary results on language identification, structure extraction, categorization and similarity searches suggests that a lot of profit can be gained from the analysis of lyrics.