Mining Music Reviews: Promising Preliminary Results

In this paper we present a system for the automatic mining of information from music reviews. We demonstrate a system which has the ability to automatically classify reviews according to the genre of the music reviewed and to predict the simple one-to-five star rating assigned to the music by the reviewer. This experiment is the first step in the development of a system to automatically mine arbitrary bodies of text, such as weblogs (blogs) for musically relevant information.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ISMIR
• Authors: Xiao Hu, J. Stephen Downie, Kris West, Andreas F. Ehmann
• Keywords: Automatic Mining, Information Retrieval, ISMIR 2005, Music Reviews, Simple One-to-five Star