AI Takes on The Beatles

Harvard University researchers have announced a collaboration with Canda’s Dalhousie University to analyze Beatles songs - to better determine who wrote what.

Summary, from LinkedIn:

Paul McCartney and John Lennon of the Beatles wrote some of the most famous songs in history, yet for the songs where they are listed as co-authors, it's not clear who wrote what. With the help of algorithms and machine learning, a team of researchers from Harvard and Canada's Dalhousie University developed a system where they were able to correctly differentiate Lennon’s tracks from Sir Paul’s with 76% accuracy. They then applied this model to eight songs or fragments of songs whose authorship is a bit murky.

Mark Glickman, Senior Lecturer on Statistics at Harvard University, posted:

Our article, "(A) Data in the Life: Authorship Attribution in Lennon-McCartney Songs", was just published in the first issue of the HARVARD DATA SCIENCE REVIEW, the inaugural publication of @harvarddatascience published by the @mitpress. Combining features of a premier research journal, a leading educational publication, and a popular magazine, HDSR leverages digital technologies and data visualizations to facilitate author-reader interactions globally. Besides our article, the first issue features articles on topics ranging from machine learning models for predicting drug approvals to artificial intelligence.

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