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Annotating Music Collections How content-based similarity helps to propagate labels

Title Annotating Music Collections How content-based similarity helps to propagate labels
Publication Type Conference Paper
Year of Publication 2007
Conference Name 8th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval
Authors Sordo, M. , Laurier C. , & Celma Ò.
Conference Location Vienna, Austria
Abstract In this paper we present a way to annotate music collections by exploiting audio similarity. In this sense, similarity is used to propose labels (tags) to yet unlabeled songs, based on the content-based distance between them. The main goal of our work is to ease the process of annotating huge music collections, by using content-based similarity distances as a way to propagate labels among songs.

We present two different experiments. The first one propagates labels that are related with the style of the piece, whereas the second experiment deals with mood labels. On the one hand, our approach shows that using a music collection annotated at 40% with styles, and using content-based, the collection can be automatically annotated up to 78% (that is, 40% already annotated and the rest, 38%, only using propagation), with a recall greater than 0.4. On the other hand, for a smaller music collection annotated at 30% with moods, the collection can be automatically annotated up to 65% (e.g. 30% plus 35% using propagation).
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