MEL: a music entity linking system

Abstract

In this work, we present MEL, the first Music Entity Linking system. MEL is able to identify mentions of musical entities (e.g., album, songs, and artists) in free text, and disambiguate them to a music knowledge base, i.e., MusicBrainz. MEL combines different state-of-the-art libraries and SimpleBrainz, an RDF knowledge base created from MusicBrainz after a simplification process. MEL is released as a REST API and as an online demo Web.