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Date 2012-01-19  14:00-15:00
TitreFrom DNA to Jay-Z: how ideas from bioinformatics can automate finding rhymes in rap music 
RésuméUnlike most kinds of music, the core of rap music is found in the rhythm and rhyme of its lyrics. Different artists or subgenres will use different kinds of rhyme, which in some cases can be extremely complicated: the end of one line may rhyme with several parts of the previous line, and in some cases, rhymes may be imperfect. Detecting these complex rhyme patterns manually is time consuming and tedious. We have designed a system for automatic rhyme annotation. Our approach is founded on several bioinformatics ideas. First, using a test corpus of known rhymes, we develop a probabilistic model of rhymed and unrhymed syllables. Then, we use that model to build a log-likelihood ratio scoring matrix for identifying what is and is not a rhyme. Finally, we create a local alignment procedure to find high-scoring lyrics segments. Our procedure has high sensitivity and specificity in identifying true rhymes in an annotated corpus; essentially, it identifies most complex rhymes, and identifies few false rhymes. We can use it to characterize artists, and then to develop classifiers for individual artists with surprising success. Joint work with MMath student Hussein Hirjee  
LieuAmphi du LaBRI 
OrateurDan Brown 
UrlUniversity of Waterloo, Ontario 



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