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Inferring Semantic Facets of a Music Folksonomy with Wikipedia

Title Inferring Semantic Facets of a Music Folksonomy with Wikipedia
Publication Type Journal Article
Year of Publication 2013
Authors Sordo, M. , Gouyon F. , Sarmento L. , Celma Ò. , & Serra X.
Journal Title Journal of New Music Research
Volume 42
Issue 4
Pages 346-363
Journal Date 12/2013
Short Title Journal of New Music Research
Abstract Music folksonomies include both general and detailed descriptions of music, and are usually continuously updated. These are significant advantages over music taxonomies, which tend to be incomplete and inconsistent. However, music folksonomies have an inherent loose and open semantics, which hampers their use in many applications, such as structured music browsing and recommendation. In this paper, we present a system that can (1) automatically obtain a set of semantic facets underlying the folksonomy of the social music website Last.fm, and (2) categorize Last.fm tags with respect to the obtained facets. The semantic facets are anchored upon the structure of Wikipedia, a dynamic repository of universal knowledge.
preprint/postprint document http://hdl.handle.net/10230/35685
Final publication https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2013.848904