In Your Eyes: Identifying Clichés in Song Lyrics
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We investigated methods for the discovery of clichés from song lyrics. Trigrams and rhyme features were extracted from a collection of lyrics and ranked using term-weighting techniques such as tf-idf. These attributes were also examined over both time and genre. We present an application to produce a cliché score for lyrics based on these findings and show that number one hits are substantially more clichéd than the average published song.
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