Oramas, SergioEspinosa-Anke, LuisLawlor, AonghusSerra, XavierSaggion, Horacio2017-10-232017-10-232016Oramas S, Espinosa-Anke L, Lawlor A, Serra X, Saggion H. Exploring customer reviews for music genre classification and evolutionary studies. In: Devaney J, Mandel MI, Turnbull D, Tzanetakis G, editors. ISMIR 2016. Proceedings of the 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference; 2016 Aug 7-11; New York City (NY). [Canada]: ISMIR; 2016. p. 150-6.http://hdl.handle.net/10230/33063Comunicació presentada a la 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2016), celebrada els dies 7 a 11 d'agost de 2016 a Nova York, EUA.In this paper, we explore a large multimodal dataset of about 65k albums constructed from a combination of Amazon customer reviews, MusicBrainz metadata and AcousticBrainz audio descriptors. Review texts are further enriched with named entity disambiguation along with polarity information derived from an aspect-based sentiment analysis framework. This dataset constitutes the cornerstone of two main contributions: First, we perform experiments on music genre classification, exploring a variety of feature types, including semantic, sentimental and acoustic features. These experiments show that modeling semantic information contributes to outperforming strong bag-of-words baselines. Second, we provide a diachronic study of the criticism of music genres via a quantitative analysis of the polarity associated to musical aspects over time. Our analysis hints at a potential correlation between key cultural and geopolitical events and the language and evolving sentiments found in music reviews.application/pdfeng© Sergio Oramas, Luis Espinosa-Anke, Aonghus Lawlor, Xavier Serra, Horacio Saggion. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Attribution: Sergio Oramas, Luis Espinosa-Anke, Aonghus Lawlor, Xavier Serra, Horacio Saggion. “Exploring Customer Reviews for Music Genre Classification and Evolutionary Studies”, 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 2016.Música -- Anàlisiinfo:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObjectinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess