What do we mean with sound semantics, exactly? A survey of taxonomies and ontologies of everyday sounds.

ABSTRACT: Taxonomies and ontologies for the characterization of everyday sounds have been developed in several research fields, including auditory cognition, soundscape research, artificial hearing, sound design, and medicine. Here, we surveyed 36 of such knowledge organization systems, which we identified through a systematic literature search. To evaluate the semantic domains covered by these systems within a homogeneous framework, we introduced a comprehensive set of verbal sound descriptors (sound source properties; attributes of sensation; sound signal descriptors; onomatopoeias; music genres), which we used to manually label the surveyed descriptor classes. We reveal that most taxonomies and ontologies were developed to characterize higher-level semantic relations between sound sources in term

SUBMITTER: Giordano BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9601315 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature