| 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 |
| Keywords | carnatic music, complex network analysis, semantic information, web mining |
| 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.
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| preprint/postprint document | http://hdl.handle.net/10230/22734 |
