Textual Lyrics Based Emotion Analysis of Bengali Songs
Devjyoti Nath, Anirban Roy, Sumitra Kumari Shaw, Amlan Ghorai, Shanta Phani
Abstract
The type of song or music a person is listening to, usually represents his state of mind. We find many online music libraries/ repositories and music streaming and media services providers play or store songs or music based on the human emotions. This makes the emotion or mood detection of songs a very interesting study which has got the above mentioned areas of application along with many others. In this paper, we have proposed methods to identify the connotation of any song based on the textual lyrics only. The methods used are the very basic language independent features which show competent performance with F1-score of more than 81%.
Topics & Concepts
LyricsBengaliActive listeningConnotationComputer scienceMoodMusic information retrievalEmotion detectionPopularityNatural language processingSpeech recognitionPsychologyLinguisticsEmotion recognitionCommunicationArtLiteratureMusicalSocial psychologyPhilosophySentiment Analysis and Opinion MiningMusic and Audio ProcessingAdvanced Text Analysis Techniques