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Only half joking: I wonder if you could train NLP models to explain rap lyrics automatically. Actually, you could think of it as a sort of machine translation
by mbrubeck 17y ago
Only half joking: I wonder if you could train NLP models to explain rap lyrics automatically. Actually, you could think of it as a sort of machine translation problem, translating one type of English dialect+jargon into another...
- jolie 17y agoDoes Urban Dictionary have an API?
- spicyj 17y agoNot anymore… http://www.urbandictionary.com/api.php http://www.urbandictionary.com/api.php
- dangrover 17y agoI met a guy at a party who had a startup where people coukld pay to get bespoke hip-hop tracks created (he had several rappers who did them). I was disappointed when I heard he didn't have an API for TTJ (text to jive).
- psawaya 17y agoThis isn't about trying to translate rap vernacular into something grammatically correct, though. It's about annotating lyrics with all of the references and "street smarts" that someone from an outside culture might not know about. Similar to how in high school, we read annotated Shakespeare which explained a lot of the obscure 17th century references that a modern teenager just wouldn't get. The fact that this is done collaboratively, Wikipedia style just makes it all the more awesome, in my opinion. Great job on this! edit: Some of these are too hilarious to not share. http://rapgenius.com/10554 http://rapgenius.com/10554