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contributor.advisorStephanie W. Haasen
creatorWilliam P. Hannahen
date.accessioned2005-05-17T15:42:42Z-
date.available2005-05-17en
date.issued2005-05-17T15:42:42Z-
date.submittedMay 13, 2005en
identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1901/205-
description.abstractThis paper describes a two-part study attempting to correlate music genre assignments performed by two primary, yet disparate groups: the music industry and consumers of popular music. An online survey was conducted, aimed at evaluating the latter group's perception of music genre. The sample of the survey consisted of 15 UNC-CH students affiliated with the music department. Concurrently, a series of genre classification experiments were conducted on several corpora of music reviews harvested from authoritative, online review websites. Results of the survey were subsequently triangulated with a portion of the music review corpora in a final genre classification experiment. The genre classification experiments were quite successful, yielding a maximum of 91% accuracy using web-based data alone. The effect of weighting schemes and procedural modifications on experimental accuracy rates are discussed, as are qualitative evaluations of participants' responses to the survey.en
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language.isoen_USen
publisherSchool of Information and Library Scienceen
rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 1.0en
subjectAutomation of Library Processes – Classification/Automation Automation of Library Processes – Music Libraries and Collections/Automation Music Information Retrieval – Music Genre Classification Music Information Retrieval – User Needs Evaluation Indexing – Automatic Indexingen
titleAutomated Music Genre Classification Based on Analyses of Web-Based Documents and Listeners’ Organizational Schemes.en
typeElectronic Theses and Dissertationsen
degree.disciplineLibrary Scienceen
degree.grantorUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hillen
degree.levelMasteren
degree.nameMaster of Scienceen
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