2024/08/27 by Haven Kim, Kim, Haven, Kahyun Choi +1
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #Computational and Text Analysis Methods #Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Music and Audio Processing #Natural Language Processing Techniques
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2408.14750
openalex publication_date 2024/08/27 · openalex created_date 2024/09/21 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This paper addresses the unique challenge of conducting research in lyric studies, where direct use of lyrics is often restricted due to copyright concerns. Unlike typical data, internet-sourced lyrics are frequently protected under copyright law, necessitating alternative approaches. Our study introduces a novel method for generating copyright-free lyrics from publicly available Bag-of-Words (BoW) datasets, which contain the vocabulary of lyrics but not the lyrics themselves. Utilizing metadata associated with BoW datasets and large language models, we successfully reconstructed lyrics. We have compiled and made available a dataset of reconstructed lyrics, LyCon, aligned with metadata from renowned sources including the Million Song Dataset, Deezer Mood Detection Dataset, and AllMusic Genre Dataset, available for public access. We believe that the integration of metadata such as mood annotations or genres enables a variety of academic experiments on lyrics, such as conditional lyric generation.