Florian Treinat: Verwendung von Lyrics zur Generierung von Musik-Playlisten (Application of lyrics for generation of music playlists) (supervisors: Dietmar Jannach, Iman Kamehkhosh, e-Services Research Group, TU Dortmund)
The goal of this work was to improve the quality of music recommendations with the help of lyrics. The proposed approaches are based on (a) the textual similarity and (b) the conveyed sentiment of lyrics. The results show that lyrics-based techniques are more efficient when the seed tracks (e.g., the tracks from the recent listening history of the user) are thematically related or sentimentally homogeneous.