3 papers
cs.IR2025
GlobalMood: A cross-cultural benchmark for music emotion recognition
Harin Lee, Elif Ãelen, Peter Harrison +5
Human annotations of mood in music are essential for music generation and recommender systems. However, existing datasets predominantly focus on Western songs with terms derived fr…
cs.MM2025
Visual and Auditory Aesthetic Preferences Across Cultures
Harin Lee, Eline Van Geert, Elif Celen +4
Research on how humans perceive aesthetics in shapes, colours, and music has predominantly focused on Western populations, limiting our understanding of how cultural environments s…
cs.CL2025
Are Expressions for Music Emotions the Same Across Cultures?
Elif Celen, Pol van Rijn, Harin Lee +1
Music evokes profound emotions, yet the universality of emotional descriptors across languages remains debated. A key challenge in cross-cultural research on music emotion is biase…