[Asis-l] CFP – 19th Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR2018)

[Xiao Hu]

Dear All,

On behalf of the ISMIR2018 organizers and program committee chairs, I am
pleased to announce the Call for Papers
<http://ismir2018.ircam.fr/pages/call-papers.html> is now available (below
for convenience). Please refer to the conference website for more
information, including an overview of Important Dates
<http://ismir2018.ircam.fr/pages/important-dates.html>. We would
additionally highlight that the abstract submission deadline (23 March) is
now less that two months away, and wish you luck in preparing your
submissions.

We are all extremely excited for this year's conference, and hope to see
you in Paris!

best,

Emmanouil Benetos

Emilia Gómez

Xiao Hu

Eric Humphrey

Program Co-Chairs, ISMIR 2018

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Overview

The 19th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2018
<http://ismir2018.ismir.net/>) will be held in Paris, France, from
September 23-27, 2018.



The annual conference of the International Society for Music Information
Retrieval (ISMIR) is the world’s leading research forum on processing,
analyzing, searching, organizing and accessing music-related data. Music
becomes music after being processed by the human mind and each person
perceives the music in a different and complex way. Therefore, this
conference embraces the complexity and diversity of music by showcasing
ideas and applications that aim to enhance the way in which we interact
with music.

Music Information Retrieval (MIR) is a truly interdisciplinary area,
involving researchers, developers, educators, librarians, students and
professionals from the disciplines of musicology, cognitive science,
library and information science, computer science, electrical engineering
and many others. Therefore, like previous ISMIR editions, ISMIR 2018 will
provide a venue for the exchange of ideas, issues, results and perspectives
among the different profiles of people working with music and computing in
a broad sense. ISMIR 2018 will cover the entire area of MIR, providing
ample room for diversity and new developments.

We are accepting submissions for:

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   Conference Papers
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   Tutorials
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   Late-breaking Papers & Demos
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   Exhibition of Installation using Interactive Machine-Learning for Music


Topics of Interest include but are not limited to:



MIR data and fundamentals

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   music signal processing
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   symbolic music processing
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   metadata, tags, linked data, and semantic web
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   lyrics and other textual data, web mining, and natural language
   processing
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   multimodality


Domain knowledge

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   representations of music
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   music acoustics
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   computational music theory and musicology
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   cognitive MIR
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   machine learning/artificial intelligence for music


Methodology and impact

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   corpus creation
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   annotation methodology
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   evaluation methodology
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   legal issues
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   ethical issues


Musical features and properties

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   melody and motives
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   harmony, chords and tonality
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   rhythm, beat, tempo
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   structure, segmentation and form
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   timbre, instrumentation and voice
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   musical style and genre
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   musical affect, emotion and mood
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   expression and performative aspects of music

Music processing

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   sound source separation
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   music transcription and annotation
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   optical music recognition
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   alignment, synchronization and score following
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   music summarization
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   music synthesis and transformation
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   fingerprinting
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   automatic classification
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   indexing and querying
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   pattern matching and detection
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   similarity metrics



User-centered MIR

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   user behavior and modeling
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   human-computer interaction
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   user-centered evaluation


Applications

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   digital libraries and archives
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   music retrieval systems
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   music recommendation and playlist generation
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   music and health, well-being and therapy
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   music training and education
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   music composition, performance and production
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   gaming
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   business and marketing


Scientific Program Notes

All papers will go through a double-blind review. Each paper will be
assigned at least three reviewers per submission. All accepted papers will
be presented at ISMIR 2018 as either a poster or an oral presentation. The
Program Committee will determine which submissions will be presented orally
and which will be presented as posters; this determination will not be
based on the relevance or potential impact of the papers, but rather on the
content and the best method to reach each paper’s intended audience. Each
paper may have a maximum of six pages of scientific content (including
figures and possible references) and one additional page which may only
contain references.


Xiao Hu, PhD
Faculty of Education
The University of Hong Kong
Room 329, Hui Oi-Chow Science Building
Tel: 22194722
Email: xiaoxhu at hku.hk