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improving music mood classification using lyrics, audio and social tags

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for <strong>lyrics</strong>, last.fm for <strong>tags</strong>, epinions.com for user reviews <strong>and</strong> amazon.com for images <strong>and</strong><br />

editorial reviews (Hu & Wang, 2007).<br />

1.5 SUMMARY<br />

This chapter introduced three important issues in <strong>music</strong> <strong>mood</strong> <strong>classification</strong> that motivated<br />

this dissertation research: the lack of a set of <strong>mood</strong> categories suitable for today's <strong>music</strong> listening<br />

environment, the prohibitively expensive cost involved in building ground truth datasets, <strong>and</strong> the<br />

premise of combining multiple resources in order to improve <strong>classification</strong> performances.<br />

Five research questions were proposed in this chapter. These questions are closely related<br />

<strong>and</strong> each is built upon the previous one. The answers to these questions will collectively shed<br />

light on the fundamental question of how <strong>lyrics</strong>, <strong>social</strong> <strong>tags</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>audio</strong> interact with one another<br />

with regard to <strong>music</strong> <strong>mood</strong>.<br />

Expected contributions of this research were summarized into three levels: methodology,<br />

evaluation <strong>and</strong> application. This research will contribute to the literature of <strong>music</strong> information<br />

retrieval, text affect analysis as well as <strong>music</strong> psychology. These related fields will be reviewed<br />

in the next chapter.<br />

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