When someone wishes to find the lyrics for a song they typically go online and use a search engine. There are a large number of lyrics available on the internet as the effort required to transcribe and post lyrics is minimal. These lyrics are promptly returned to the user with customary search engine page ranking formula deciding the ordering of these results based on links, views, clicks, etc....

Recently, several music information retrieval (MIR) systems have been developed which retrieve musical pieces by the user’s singing voice. All of these systems use only the melody information for retrieval. Although the lyrics information is useful for retrieval, there have been few attempts to exploit lyrics in the user’s input. In order to develop a MIR system that uses lyrics and melody info...

Binary oppositions are among the essential concepts and components of structuralism and linguistic and semiotic theories that are rooted in human ancient beliefs. One of the fundamental functions of the human mind is the creation of binary oppositions, which are seen in art and literature. The study of binary oppositions in literary works leads to a better understanding of them. This article is...

We present a novel method to extract lyrics from the Web. The aim is to extract a set of multiple versions of the lyrics to a song. Lyrics can be identified within a text by a regular expression. We use a projection of a document to efficiently identify lyrics within the document by mapping it to a regular expression. We describe a method to cluster the multiple versions of the lyrics by filter...

This study proposes a computational model of the discourse segments in lyrics to understand and to model the structure of lyrics. To test our hypothesis that discourse segmentations in lyrics strongly correlate with repeated patterns, we conduct the first large-scale corpus study on discourse segments in lyrics. Next, we propose the task to automatically identify segment boundaries in lyrics an...

Study Objectives. Studies have found that depictions of unhealthy behaviors (e.g., illicit substance use, violence) are common in popular music lyrics; however, we are unaware of any studies that have specifically analyzed the content of music lyrics for unhealthy sleep-related behaviors. We sought to determine whether behaviors known to perpetuate insomnia symptoms are commonly depicted in the...

We describe a novel method for creating a hyperlink from a phrase in the lyrics of a song to the same phrase in the lyrics of another song. This method can be applied to various applications, such as song clustering based on the meaning of the lyrics and a music playback interface that will enable a user to browse and discover songs on the basis of lyrics. Given a song database consisting of so...

The purpose of this technical report is to discuss two additional aspects of automatic lyrics retrieval as described in “Multiple Lyrics Alignment: Automatic Retrieval of Song Lyrics” by Knees et al., 2005. The first aspect is the introduction of a confidence measure to estimate the quality of the generated output. The second aspect deals with the automatic formatting of generated lyrics to pre...

Musical emotions, such as happiness and sadness, have been investigated using instrumental music devoid of linguistic content. However, pop and rock, the most common musical genres, utilize lyrics for conveying emotions. Using participants' self-selected musical excerpts, we studied their behavior and brain responses to elucidate how lyrics interact with musical emotion processing, as reflected...

Understanding the lyrics of many contemporary songs is difficult, and an earlier study (Hidalgo-Barnes and Massaro, 2007) showed a benefit for lyrics recognition when seeing a computer-animated talking head (Baldi®), mouthing the lyrics along with hearing the singer. However, the contribution of visual information was relatively small compared to what is usually found for speech. In the current...