We explore a novel research idea, that we call Musical Language Processing (MLP), which investigates the possibility of a musical input to speech interaction systems. We present the first attempts at finding a mapping between musical pieces and dialogues, based on the frequency of musical patterns. Our findings on one possible alignment between classical piano compositions and dialogues from popular TV series are encouraging, and open the way to further investigations along this line of research.
@InProceedings{BERLINGERIO18.831, author = {Michele Berlingerio and Francesca Bonin}, title = "{Towards a music-language mapping}", booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {May 7-12, 2018}, address = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair) and Khalid Choukri and Christopher Cieri and Thierry Declerck and Sara Goggi and Koiti Hasida and Hitoshi Isahara and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Hélène Mazo and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis and Takenobu Tokunaga}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {979-10-95546-00-9}, language = {english} }
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