Subject: [AUDITORY] Music note prediction: Computational modeling task From: Tom Collins <tomthecollins@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 19:18:20 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>--0000000000004915000571d6e75b Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" *With apologies for cross-posting...Call for participation: Patterns for Prediction task @xxxxxxxx MIREX2018http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2018:Patterns_for_Prediction <http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2018:Patterns_for_Prediction>We are searching for researchers whose computational models and/or algorithms have the ability to predict the next musical events (continuation), based on given, foregoing events (prime). We are also interested in models that may not make explicit predictions, but can estimate the likelihood of several alternative continuations.One facet of human nature comprises the tendency to form predictions about what will happen in the future. Music provides an excellent setting for the study of prediction, and we hope that this task will attract interest from fields such as psychology, neuroscience, music theory, music informatics, and machine learning.Why "patterns" in "Patterns for Prediction"? This new task has emerged from an existing Pattern Discovery task <http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2013:Discovery_of_Repeated_Themes_%26_Sections>, which ran 2013-17. The last five years have seen an increasing interest in discovering or generating patterned data, leveraging methods beyond typical (e.g., Markovian) limits. How might exact and inexact repetition, occurring over the short, medium, and long term in pieces of music, interact with expectations in order to form a basis for successful prediction?MIREX stands for the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange. Since 2005, it has provided a forum for researchers to (1) train algorithms to perform specific, music-technological tasks on publicly available datasets, (2) submit algorithms that are run and evaluated by MIREX organizers on private datasets, (3) compare their work with one another and shed light on research questions informed by and informing diverse fields intersecting with music informatics.The deadline for submitting to this task is Saturday August 25th, 2018. If you are interested in participating in this task but do not think you will have time until the 2019 iteration, please let us know so we can keep you in mind for next year.For more details, please refer to the MIREX page: http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2018:Patterns_for_Prediction <http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2018:Patterns_for_Prediction>Your task captains for Patterns for Prediction are Iris Yuping Ren <https://sites.google.com/view/iyr/> (yuping.ren.iris), Berit Janssen <http://beritjanssen.com/> (berit.janssen), and Tom Collins <http://tomcollinsresearch.net/> (tomthecollins all at gmail.com <http://gmail.com>). Feel free to copy-in all three of us if you have questions/comments.Thanks for reading!* Tom Collins, PhD http://tomcollinsresearch.net https://musicintelligence.co Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Lafayette College --0000000000004915000571d6e75b Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><b style=3D"font-weight:normal" id=3D"gmail-docs-internal-= guid-a78a2db1-d2a9-2da8-b161-b144579b9553"><p dir=3D"ltr" style=3D"line-hei= ght:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style=3D"font-size:10pt;fo= nt-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weigh= t:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-a= lign:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">With apologies for cross-posting...</sp= an></p><br><p dir=3D"ltr" style=3D"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-b= ottom:0pt"><span style=3D"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,= 34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-var= iant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wr= ap">Call for participation: Patterns for Prediction task @xxxxxxxx MIREX2018</span>= </p><p dir=3D"ltr" style=3D"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0= pt"><a href=3D"http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2018:Patterns_for_Predict= ion" style=3D"text-decoration:none"><span style=3D"font-size:10pt;font-fami= ly:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;= font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-al= ign:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2018:= Patterns_for_Prediction</span></a></p><br><p dir=3D"ltr" style=3D"line-heig= ht:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style=3D"font-size:10pt;fon= t-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight= :400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-al= ign:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are searching for researchers whose c= omputational models and/or algorithms have the ability to predict the next = musical events (continuation), based on given, foregoing events (prime). We= are also interested in models that may not make explicit predictions, but = can estimate the likelihood of several alternative continuations.</span></p= ><br><p dir=3D"ltr" style=3D"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:= 0pt"><span style=3D"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);ba= ckground-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:n= ormal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">On= e facet of human nature comprises the tendency to form predictions about wh= at will happen in the future. Music provides an excellent setting for the s= tudy of prediction, and we hope that this task will attract interest from f= ields such as psychology, neuroscience, music theory, music informatics, an= d machine learning.</span></p><br><p dir=3D"ltr" style=3D"line-height:1.38;= margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style=3D"font-size:10pt;font-family= :Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;fon= t-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:base= line;white-space:pre-wrap">Why "patterns" in "Patterns for P= rediction"? This new task has emerged from an existing </span><a href= =3D"http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2013:Discovery_of_Repeated_Themes_%2= 6_Sections" style=3D"text-decoration:none"><span style=3D"font-size:10pt;fo= nt-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weig= ht:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vert= ical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pattern Discovery task</span></a>= <span style=3D"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);backgro= und-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal= ;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, which= ran 2013-17. The last five years have seen an increasing interest in disco= vering or generating patterned data, leveraging methods beyond typical (e.g= ., Markovian) limits. How might exact and inexact repetition, occurring ove= r the short, medium, and long term in pieces of music, interact with expect= ations in order to form a basis for successful prediction?</span></p><br><p= dir=3D"ltr" style=3D"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><s= pan style=3D"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);backgroun= d-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;t= ext-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MIREX sta= nds for the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange. Since 2005, it= has provided a forum for researchers to (1) train algorithms to perform sp= ecific, music-technological tasks on publicly available datasets, (2) submi= t algorithms that are run and evaluated by MIREX organizers on private data= sets, (3) compare their work with one another and shed light on research qu= estions informed by and informing diverse fields intersecting with music in= formatics.</span></p><br><p dir=3D"ltr" style=3D"line-height:1.38;margin-to= p:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style=3D"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;co= lor:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:n= ormal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;whit= e-space:pre-wrap">The deadline for submitting to this task is Saturday Augu= st 25th, 2018. If you are interested in participating in this task but do n= ot think you will have time until the 2019 iteration, please let us know so= we can keep you in mind for next year.</span></p><br><p dir=3D"ltr" style= =3D"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style=3D"font-= size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparen= t;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:non= e;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For more details, please re= fer to the MIREX page: </span><a href=3D"http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki= /2018:Patterns_for_Prediction" style=3D"text-decoration:none"><span style= =3D"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:= transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-deco= ration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.m= usic-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2018:Patterns_for_Prediction</span></a></p><br><p di= r=3D"ltr" style=3D"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span= style=3D"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-c= olor:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text= -decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Your task ca= ptains for Patterns for Prediction are </span><a href=3D"https://sites.goog= le.com/view/iyr/" style=3D"text-decoration:none"><span style=3D"font-size:1= 0pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;fon= t-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underlin= e;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Iris Yuping Ren</span></a><= span style=3D"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);backgrou= nd-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;= text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (</span= ><span style=3D"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);backgr= ound-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:= normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">y= uping.ren.iris</span><span style=3D"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:= rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:norma= l;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-sp= ace:pre-wrap">), </span><a href=3D"http://beritjanssen.com/" style=3D"text-= decoration:none"><span style=3D"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(= 17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;f= ont-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-= space:pre-wrap">Berit Janssen</span></a><span style=3D"font-size:10pt;font-= family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:4= 00;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-alig= n:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (</span><span style=3D"font-size:10pt;fon= t-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-w= eight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertic= al-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">berit.janssen</span><span style=3D"= font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:trans= parent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoratio= n:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">), and </span><a href= =3D"http://tomcollinsresearch.net/" style=3D"text-decoration:none"><span st= yle=3D"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-col= or:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-d= ecoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tom Colli= ns</span></a><span style=3D"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,3= 4,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-v= ariant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-= wrap"> (</span><span style=3D"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34= ,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal= ;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-spa= ce:pre-wrap">tomthecollins all at <a href=3D"http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a= ></span><span style=3D"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)= ;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-varian= t:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"= >). Feel free to copy-in all three of us if you have questions/comments.</s= pan></p><br><p dir=3D"ltr" style=3D"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-= bottom:0pt"><span style=3D"font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34= ,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-va= riant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-w= rap">Thanks for reading!</span></p></b><br class=3D"gmail-Apple-interchange= -newline"><br><div><div>Tom Collins, PhD</div><div><a href=3D"http://tomcol= linsresearch.net">http://tomcollinsresearch.net</a></div><div><a href=3D"ht= tps://musicintelligence.co">https://musicintelligence.co</a></div><div>Visi= ting Assistant Professor</div><div>Department of Computer Science</div><div= >Lafayette College</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div> --0000000000004915000571d6e75b--