A Method of Music Retrieval Using Impression Keywords

Recently, making electronic data of the multimedia such as music, images, books, and so on has been spread. However, it is necessary to look for specific contents in the database with a large amount of music data because electronic data increases rapidly. Therefore, an efficient search engine is requested. This paper presents a music retrieval method focusing on the impression keywords. In the presented method, impression keywords as queries is constructed by using Twitter beforehand. The impression vector to music is generated by using this impression keyword set. And, the retrieval is processed by measuring the similarity to impression vectors with a query. From experimental results, it turns out that the recommended music displayed as a retrieval result appropriately expresses the impression of the user requests.