Categorizing music mood in social context

Categorizing Music Mood in Social Context

Music mood is an emerging metadata type of music, but there are no well-accepted mood categories. This research proposes a new method to categorize music mood in the social context of music listening. This method combines the strength of social tags, linguistic resources and human experts. Preliminary results show that the proposed method is promising in identifying mood categories that better ...

Music Mood Representations from Social Tags

This paper presents findings about mood representations. We aim to analyze how do people tag music by mood, to create representations based on this data and to study the agreement between experts and a large community. For this purpose, we create a semantic mood space from last.fm tags using Latent Semantic Analysis. With an unsupervised clustering approach, we derive from this space an ideal c...

Social Context and Absolute Music

willingness to communicate in the iranian context: language learning orientation and social support

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

Mood Dependent Music Generator

Music is one of the most expressive media to show and manipulate emotions, but there have been few studies on how to generate music connected to emotions. Such studies have always been shunned upon by musicians affirming that a machine cannot create expressive music, as it’s the composer’s and player’s experiences and emotions that get poured into the piece. At the same time another problem is ...