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Extracting Semantic Information from an Online Carnatic Music Forum

Title Extracting Semantic Information from an Online Carnatic Music Forum
Publication Type Conference Paper
Year of Publication 2012
Conference Name 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2012)
Authors Sordo, M. , Serrà J. , Koduri G. K. , & Serra X.
Pagination 355-360
Conference Start Date 08/10/2012
Conference Location Porto, Portugal
Abstract By mining user-generated text content we can obtain music-related information that could not otherwise be extracted from audio signals or symbolic score representations. In this paper we propose a methodology for extracting music-related semantic information from an online discussion forum, rasikas.org, dedicated to the Carnatic music tradition. We first define a dictionary of relevant terms within categories such as raagas, taalas, performers, composers, and instruments, and create a complex network representation by matching such dictionary against the forum posts. This network representation is used to identify popular terms within the forum, as well as relevant co-occurrences and semantic relationships. This way, for instance, we are able to learn the instrument played by a performer with 95% accuracy, to discover the confusion between two raagas with different naming conventions, or to infer semantic relationships regarding lineage or musical influence. This contribution is a first step towards the automatic creation of ontologies for specific musical cultures.
preprint/postprint document http://hdl.handle.net/10230/22734