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most citedWords are all you need? Language as an approximation for human similarity judgments

9 citations · 15 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.SD2026

Measuring Cross-Cultural Style Diffusion Through Era Classification: US and Korean Popular Music

Dasol Lee, Minhee Lee, Seonguk Ju +3

Popular music circulates globally while being locally reinterpreted, yet this process of cross-cultural style diffusion has rarely been quantified. We propose an era-classification…

cs.SD2026

Do Melody and Rhythm Coevolve?

Harin Lee, Rainer Polak, Manuel Anglada-Tort +3

Music comprises two core structural components, melody and rhythm, that vary widely across cultures. Whether these components coevolve in a coupled way or follow independent trajec…

cs.IR2025★ 1 cited

GlobalMood: A cross-cultural benchmark for music emotion recognition

Harin Lee, Elif Çelen, 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.CL2025★ 1 cited

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…

cs.MM2025★ 1 cited

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…

q-bio.NC2024

A Rational Analysis of the Speech-to-Song Illusion

Raja Marjieh, Pol van Rijn, Ilia Sucholutsky +3

The speech-to-song illusion is a robust psychological phenomenon whereby a spoken sentence sounds increasingly more musical as it is repeated. Despite decades of research, a comple…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Around the world in 60 words: A generative vocabulary test for online research

Pol van Rijn, Yue Sun, Harin Lee +5

Conducting experiments with diverse participants in their native languages can uncover insights into culture, cognition, and language that may not be revealed otherwise. However, c…

cs.CL2022★ 9 cited

Words are all you need? Language as an approximation for human similarity judgments

Raja Marjieh, Pol van Rijn, Ilia Sucholutsky +4

Human similarity judgments are a powerful supervision signal for machine learning applications based on techniques such as contrastive learning, information retrieval, and model al…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Bridging the prosody GAP: Genetic Algorithm with People to efficiently sample emotional prosody

Pol van Rijn, Harin Lee, Nori Jacoby

The human voice effectively communicates a range of emotions with nuanced variations in acoustics. Existing emotional speech corpora are limited in that they are either (a) highly…

cs.IR2021

Cross-cultural Mood Perception in Pop Songs and its Alignment with Mood Detection Algorithms

Harin Lee, Frank Hoeger, Marc Schoenwiesner +2

Do people from different cultural backgrounds perceive the mood in music the same way? How closely do human ratings across different cultures approximate automatic mood detection a…