Love Me, Love Me, Say (and Write!) that You Love Me: Enriching the WASABI Song Corpus with Lyrics Annotations

Michael Fell, Elena Cabrio, Elmahdi Korfed, Michel Buffa, Fabien Gandon

Abstract
We present the WASABI Song Corpus, a large corpus of songs enriched with metadata extracted from music databases on the Web, and resulting from the processing of song lyrics and from audio analysis. More specifically, given that lyrics encode an important part of the semantics of a song, we focus here on the description of the methods we proposed to extract relevant information from the lyrics, as their structure segmentation, their topic, the explicitness of the lyrics content, the salient passages of a song and the emotions conveyed. The creation of the resource is still ongoing: so far, the corpus contains 1.73M songs with lyrics (1.41M unique lyrics) annotated at different levels with the output of the above mentioned methods. Such corpus labels and the provided methods can be exploited by music search engines and music professionals (e.g. journalists, radio presenters) to better handle large collections of lyrics, allowing an intelligent browsing, categorization and segmentation recommendation of songs.
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2020.lrec-1.262
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Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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May
Year:
2020
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Marseille, France
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association
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Pages:
2138–2147
Language:
English
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.262
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Michael Fell, Elena Cabrio, Elmahdi Korfed, Michel Buffa, and Fabien Gandon. 2020. Love Me, Love Me, Say (and Write!) that You Love Me: Enriching the WASABI Song Corpus with Lyrics Annotations. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 2138–2147, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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Love Me, Love Me, Say (and Write!) that You Love Me: Enriching the WASABI Song Corpus with Lyrics Annotations (Fell et al., LREC 2020)
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 micbuffa/WasabiDataset
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