Listener Modeling and Context-Aware Music Recommendation Based on Country Archetypes.

ABSTRACT: Music preferences are strongly shaped by the cultural and socio-economic background of the listener, which is reflected, to a considerable extent, in country-specific music listening profiles. Previous work has already identified several country-specific differences in the popularity distribution of music artists listened to. In particular, what constitutes the "music mainstream" strongly varies between countries. To complement and extend these results, the article at hand delivers the following major contributions: First, using state-of-the-art unsupervized learning techniques, we identify and thoroughly investigate (1) country profiles of music preferences on the fine-grained level of music tracks (in contrast to earlier work that relied on music preferences on the artist level) and (2)

SUBMITTER: Schedl M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7990101 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature