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Originally Posted by Hellmark
With music, the tone or feel is generally represented by how upbeat things are. With text, most of the tone comes from inferences and context. If you did something like assign values to words and then calculated based on how often certain types of words were used, you could get a general feeling, but it wouldn't always be accurate. Was that really a sad story, or a comedy about goths?
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yes. Music, of all the art form, is probably most amenable to mathematical (hence, computer) analysis. there are even programs that compose passable music. On the natural language processing side, we have... Siri. In either case, the computer is just faking it, but since music doesn't require the computer to really understand things about humans and the world, it's much more successful there. There's a reason we have many child musical prodigies, but not many 10yo literary critics.