Tamil Lyrics Corpus: Analysis and Experiments

Dhivya Chinnappa, Praveenraj Dhandapani


Abstract
In this paper, we present a new Tamil lyrics corpus extracted from Tamil movies captured across a range of 65 years (1954 to 2019). We present a detailed corpus analysis showing the nature of Tamil lyrics with respect to lyricists and the year which it was written. We also present similar- ity score across different lyricists based on their song lyrics. We present experi- mental results based on the SOTA BERT Tamil models to identify the lyricists of a song. Finally, we present future research directions encouraging researchers to pur- sue Tamil NLP research.
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2021.dravidianlangtech-1.1
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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages
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April
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2021
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Kyiv
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Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Anand Kumar M, Parameswari Krishnamurthy, Elizabeth Sherly
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DravidianLangTech
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1–9
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.dravidianlangtech-1.1
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Dhivya Chinnappa and Praveenraj Dhandapani. 2021. Tamil Lyrics Corpus: Analysis and Experiments. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages, pages 1–9, Kyiv. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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