Heavy Metal and Natural Language Processing

Re:Heavy Metal and Natural Language Processing by Bahamut on Sunday July 03, 2016 @02:28AM (#12025026)

I noticed there was song data errors in places - for example, in this chart (http://www.degeneratestate.org/static/metal_lyrics/clusters....), in the most representative songs for Tiamat, it lists White Pearl, Black Oceans. That is a song by Sonata Arctica. It also lists 3 versions of the same song for Nightwish in most representative songs (Elan). Similar mistakes are made for various bands in that chart (Symphony X, Hammerfall, Therion, Sabaton, Stratovarius, Helloween, Within Temptation, etc.).

This was interesting to read in general though, especially as someone who listens to metal quite frequently (mostly of the power metal variety).

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Re:Heavy Metal and Natural Language Processing by simonbw on Sunday July 03, 2016 @02:35AM (#12025038)

He mentioned that in the article: > What's interesting is that while the most representative songs for each band are mostly their own songs, occasionally other bands songs creep in. For example, "Wrathchild", is an Iron Maiden song, not a Diamondhead song.

I don't think it's a problem with the song data. When the algorithm picks a song it considers most lyrically representative of a band, it chooses from all the songs in the dataset, and it doesn't always pick a song by that band.

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