Turkish Music Genre Classification using Audio and Lyrics Features

Volume: 21 Number: 2 May 6, 2017

Turkish Music Genre Classification using Audio and Lyrics Features

Abstract

Music Information Retrieval (MIR) has become a popular research area in recent years. In this context, researchers have developed music information systems to find solutions for such major problems as automatic playlist creation, hit song detection, and music genre or mood classification. Meta-data information, lyrics, or melodic content of music are used as feature resource in previous works. However, lyrics do not often used in MIR systems and the number of works in this field is not enough especially for Turkish. In this paper, firstly, we have extended our previously created Turkish MIR (TMIR) dataset, which comprises of Turkish lyrics, by including the audio file of each song. Secondly, we have investigated the effect of using audio and textual features together or separately on automatic Music Genre Classification (MGC). We have extracted textual features from lyrics using different feature extraction models such as word2vec and traditional Bag of Words. We have conducted our experiments on Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm and analysed the impact of feature selection and different feature groups on MGC. We have considered lyrics based MGC as a text classification task and also investigated the effect of term weighting method. Experimental results show that textual features can also be effective as well as audio features for Turkish MGC, especially when a supervised term weighting method is employed. We have achieved the highest success rate as 99,12\% by using both audio and textual features together.

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Primary Language

Turkish

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Publication Date

May 6, 2017

Submission Date

December 30, 2016

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Year 2017 Volume: 21 Number: 2

APA
Çoban, Ö. (2017). Turkish Music Genre Classification using Audio and Lyrics Features. Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi, 21(2), 322-331. https://doi.org/10.19113/sdufbed.88303
AMA
1.Çoban Ö. Turkish Music Genre Classification using Audio and Lyrics Features. J. Nat. Appl. Sci. 2017;21(2):322-331. doi:10.19113/sdufbed.88303
Chicago
Çoban, Önder. 2017. “Turkish Music Genre Classification Using Audio and Lyrics Features”. Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi 21 (2): 322-31. https://doi.org/10.19113/sdufbed.88303.
EndNote
Çoban Ö (August 1, 2017) Turkish Music Genre Classification using Audio and Lyrics Features. Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi 21 2 322–331.
IEEE
[1]Ö. Çoban, “Turkish Music Genre Classification using Audio and Lyrics Features”, J. Nat. Appl. Sci., vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 322–331, Aug. 2017, doi: 10.19113/sdufbed.88303.
ISNAD
Çoban, Önder. “Turkish Music Genre Classification Using Audio and Lyrics Features”. Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi 21/2 (August 1, 2017): 322-331. https://doi.org/10.19113/sdufbed.88303.
JAMA
1.Çoban Ö. Turkish Music Genre Classification using Audio and Lyrics Features. J. Nat. Appl. Sci. 2017;21:322–331.
MLA
Çoban, Önder. “Turkish Music Genre Classification Using Audio and Lyrics Features”. Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi, vol. 21, no. 2, Aug. 2017, pp. 322-31, doi:10.19113/sdufbed.88303.
Vancouver
1.Önder Çoban. Turkish Music Genre Classification using Audio and Lyrics Features. J. Nat. Appl. Sci. 2017 Aug. 1;21(2):322-31. doi:10.19113/sdufbed.88303

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