Sordo, MohamedSerrà Julià, JoanKoduri, Gopala KrishnaSerra, XavierUniversitat Pompeu Fabra2013-03-132013-03-132012Sordo M, Serrà J, Koduri GK, Serra X. A method for extracting semantic information from on-line art music discussion forums. In: Serra X, Rao P, Murthy H, Bozkurt B, editors. Proceedings of the 2nd CompMusic Workshop; 2012 Jul 12-13; Istanbul, Turkey. Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra; 2012. p. 55-60.http://hdl.handle.net/10230/20490Comunicació presentada al 2nd CompMusic Workshop, celebrat els dies 12 i 13 de juliol de 2012 a Istanbul (Turquia), organitzat per CompMusic.In this paper a method for extracting semantic information/nfrom online music discussion forums is proposed. The semantic relations are inferred from the co-occurrence of musical concepts in forum posts, using network analysis. The method starts by defining a dictionary of common music terms in an art music tradition. Then, it creates a complex network representation of the online forum by matching/nsuch dictionary against the forum posts. Once the complex network is built we can study different network measures, including node relevance, node co-occurrence and/nterm relations via semantically connecting words. Moreover, we can detect communities of concepts inside the forum posts. The rationale is that some music terms are more related to each other than to other terms. All in all, this methodology allows us to obtain meaningful and relevant/ninformation from forum discussions.application/pdfeng© 2012 Mohamed Sordo et al. This is an open-access article distributed/nunder the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License/n, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.Semàntica -- InformàticaRecuperació de la informacióMúsicaFòrums (Internet)info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObjectinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess