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Analyzing Sentiment In Twitter Tweets As A Basis For Music Creation, Jeff Lupker
Analyzing Sentiment In Twitter Tweets As A Basis For Music Creation, Jeff Lupker
Western Research Forum
Analysis of the sentiment associated with different words has long been used as a pre-compositional tool by various composers through their use of the words of poets, lyricists or writers in creating their music. While the interpretation of any given word and its relation to music might have loosely followed some implicitly accepted notions amongst composers, there was no accurate method for qualifying each word according to its sentiment in standard usage. More recent research measuring individuals’ evaluation of text has led to a quantitative ranking of words in terms of properties concerning sentiment. My current research is an attempt …