The art form of manipulating vinyl records done by disc jockeys (DJs) is called scratching, and has become very popular since its start in the seventies. Since then turntables are commonly used as expressive musical instruments in several musical genres. This phenomenon has had a serious impact on the instrument-making industry, as the sales of turntables and related equipment have boosted. Des...

extended abstract 1. introduction maghame is a kind of narrative which focuses on the poor and beggars’ wants and tricky literary men with an ornate prose. also, picaresque is a kind of episodic narrative which explains events happening for low class people of society or criminals, or the roguish central character fighting for survival of fittest permanantly. these involvements may take place a...

The recent progress of Electronic Music Distribution creates a natural pressure for fine-grained musical metadata. This metadata is needed to provide music distribution services which are able to cope with the mere size of music catalogues, and the desire of users to access music titles by similarity. In this context, we describe a project of a global music title metadatabase, and focus in the ...

Music recommendation systems can observe user’s personal preferences and suggest new tracks from a large online catalog. In the case of context-aware recommenders, user’s current emotional state plays an important role. One simple way to visualize emotions and moods is graphical emoticons. In this study, we researched a high-level mapping between genres, as descriptions of music, and emoticons,...

From the earliest times, it’s been possible to discern clear genre divisions among games, genres based on a collection of game mechanics. The pattern can be seen even in games of the Neolithic, and continues with digital games today. Since the inception of games as a commercial industry (in the 18 century), it also appears that new genres have, over time, attracted new audiences; in recent year...

Modern TV or radio news talk-shows include a variety of sequences which comply with specific journalistic patterns, including debates, interviews, reports. The paper deals with automatic chapter generation for TV news talk-shows, according to these different journalistic genres. It is shown that linguistic and speaker-distribution based features can lead to an efficient characterization of thes...

In real world multilabel problems, it is often the case that e.g. documents are simultaneously classified with labels from multiple domains, such as genres in addition to topics. In practice, each of these problems is solved independently without taking advantage of possible label correlations between domains. Following the multi-task learning setting, in which multiple similar tasks are learne...

Entity recognition is an important but challenging research problem. In reality, many text collections are from specific, dynamic, or emerging domains, which poses significant new challenges for entity recognition with increase in name ambiguity and context sparsity, requiring entity detection without domain restriction. In this paper, we investigate entity recognition (ER) with distant-supervi...