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Music recommendation: audio neighbourhoods to discover music in the long tail.

Craw, Susan; Horsburgh, Ben; Massie, Stewart

Authors

Ben Horsburgh



Contributors

Eyke H�llermeier
Editor

Mirjam Minor
Editor

Abstract

Millions of people use online music services every day and recommender systems are essential to browse these music collections. Users are looking for high quality recommendations, but also want to discover tracks and artists that they do not already know, newly released tracks, and the more niche music found in the 'long tail' of on-line music. Tag-based recommenders are not effective in this 'long tail' because relatively few people are listening to these tracks and so tagging tends to be sparse. However, similarity neighbourhoods in audio space can provide additional tag knowledge that is useful to augment sparse tagging. A new recommender exploits the combined knowledge, from audio and tagging, using a hybrid representation that extends the track's tag-based representation by adding semantic knowledge extracted from the tags of similar music tracks. A user evaluation and a larger experiment using Last.fm user data both show that the new hybrid recommender provides better quality recommendations than using only tags, together with a higher level of discovery of unknown and niche music. This approach of augmenting the representation for items that have missing information, with corresponding information from similar items in a complementary space, offers opportunities beyond content-based music recommendation.

Citation

CRAW, S., HORSBURGH, B. and MASSIE, S. 2015. Music recommendation: audio neighbourhoods to discover music in the long tail. In Hüllermeier, E. and Minor, M. (eds.) Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on case-based reasoning research and development (ICCBR 2015), 28-30 September 2015, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Lecture notes in computer science, 9343. Cham: Springer [online], pages 73-87. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24586-7_6

Conference Name 23rd International conference on case-based reasoning research and development (ICCBR 2015)
Conference Location Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Start Date Sep 28, 2015
End Date Sep 30, 2015
Acceptance Date Sep 28, 2015
Online Publication Date Nov 26, 2015
Publication Date Nov 26, 2015
Deposit Date May 4, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Print ISSN 0302-9743
Publisher Springer
Pages 73-87
Series Title Lecture notes in computer science
Series Number 9343
Series ISSN 0302-9743
ISBN 9783319245850
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24586-7_6
Keywords Recommender systems; Novelty and serendipity; Knowledge extraction; CBR similarity assumption
Public URL http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1456

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