Distributed Vector Representations of Folksong Motifs

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-21392-3_26zbMATH Open1456.00057arXiv1903.08756OpenAlexW2964053001MaRDI QIDQ5237283FDOQ5237283

Authors: Aitor Arronte Alvarez, Francisco Gómez-Martín 

Publication date: 17 October 2019

Published in: Mathematics and Computation in Music (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This article presents a distributed vector representation model for learning folksong motifs. A skip-gram version of word2vec with negative sampling is used to represent high quality embeddings. Motifs from the Essen Folksong collection are compared based on their cosine similarity. A new evaluation method for testing the quality of the embeddings based on a melodic similarity task is presented to show how the vector space can represent complex contextual features, and how it can be utilized for the study of folksong variation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.08756

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zbMATH Keywords

word2vecfolksong motifsmelodic contextmotif embedding

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Neural networks for/in biological studies, artificial life and related topics (92B20) Mathematics and music (00A65)

Cites Work

• Learning representations by back-propagating errors
• From frequency to meaning: vector space models of semantics
• 10.1162/153244303322533223

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Uses Software

• word2vec
• Music21

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