Connecting the Last.fm Dataset to LyricWiki and MusicBrainz. Lyrics-based experiments in genre classification

Abstract

Music information retrieval has lately become an important field of information retrieval, because by profound analysis of music pieces important information can be collected: genre labels, mood prediction, artist identification, just to name a few. The lack of large-scale music datasets containing audio features and metadata has lead to the construction and publication of the Million Song Dataset (MSD) and its satellite datasets. Nonetheless, mainly because of licensing limitations, no freely available lyrics datasets have been published for research.

Keywords

• music information retrieval
• lyrics dataset
• music genre classification
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• 68u15