Subject: [AUDITORY] [Call for Papers] TISMIR Special Collection on Language-Centric Music Information Retrieval From: Yinghao Ma <000004b5463f9510-dmarc-request@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000--_000_AS4PR07MB846066CF943188FD26414329BE342AS4PR07MB8460eurp_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear colleagues, [Sorry for cross-list notification.] We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for a new Special Collection i= n the Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retri= eval (TISMIR) titled: "Language-Centric Music Information Retrieval". This special collection focuses on Music Information Retrieval (MIR) resear= ch informed by language-centered modeling. We invite contributions that exp= lore how concepts and methods from Natural Language Processing (NLP) and la= rge-scale language models can support the analysis, representation, retriev= al, and generation of music. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Tokenization and representations for symbolic music and audio - NLP for music-related text (lyrics, metadata, reviews, etc.) - Language-informed tagging, classification, and semantic understanding - Retrieval and recommendation, including query-by-description and conversa= tional search - Music generation and co-creation, including text-conditioned generation a= nd iterative editing workflows - Language-guided audio and music production, such as mixing, mastering, an= d sound design - Knowledge resources for MIR, including ontologies, knowledge graphs, and = entity linking - Evaluation and human factors, including quality assessment, human feedbac= k, creativity, bias, and cultural representation - Trust, ethics, and transparency, including synthetic content detection an= d copyright-related considerations - Long-context modeling of musical structure and form - Multimodal methods involving text, symbolic music, and audio (as relevant= to the collection=92s focus) Guest Editors: - Anna Kruspe (Lead Editor), Munich University of Applied Sciences - SeungHeon Doh, KAIST - Elena Epure, Idiap Research Institute - Yinghao Ma, Queen Mary University of London - Arthur Flexer, Johannes Kepler Universit=E4t Linz - Li Su, Institute of Information Science - Ruibin Yuan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Submission Guidelines: - Submission Link: https://transactions.ismir.net<https://transactions.ismi= r.net/> - Note: Please specify in your cover letter that the submission is for the = Special Collection "Language-Centric Music Information Retrieval". - Word Limit: Maximum 8,000 words. - Pre-notification: If you plan to submit, please let us know via email at = anna.kruspe@xxxxxxxx to assist our planning. For detailed formatting guidelines and information regarding extensions of = previously published workshop research, please refer to the TISMIR website.= We look forward to receiving your innovative contributions! Best regards, On behalf of the Guest Editors --_000_AS4PR07MB846066CF943188FD26414329BE342AS4PR07MB8460eurp_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> <head> <meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3DWindows-1= 252"> <style type=3D"text/css" style=3D"display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bo= ttom:0;} </style> </head> <body dir=3D"ltr"> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> <b>Dear colleagues,</b></div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> <br> </div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> [Sorry for cross-list notification.]</div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for a new Special Co= llection in the Transactions of the International Society for Music Informa= tion Retrieval (TISMIR) titled: "Language-Centric Music Information Re= trieval".</div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> <br> </div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> This special collection focuses on Music Information Retrieval (M= IR) research informed by language-centered modeling. We invite contribution= s that explore how concepts and methods from Natural Language Processing (N= LP) and large-scale language models can support the analysis, representation, retrieval, and generation of music.</div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> <b><br> </b></div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> <b>Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):</b></div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> - Tokenization and representations for symbolic music and audio</div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> - NLP for music-related text (lyrics, metadata, reviews, etc.)</div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> - Language-informed tagging, classification, and semantic understanding</di= v> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> - <span style=3D"letter-spacing: -0.3px;">Retrieval and recommendation, inc= luding query-by-description and conversational search</span></div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> - <span style=3D"letter-spacing: -0.3px;">Music generation and co-creation,= including text-conditioned generation and iterative editing workflows</spa= n></div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> - Language-guided audio and music production, such as mixing, mastering, an= d sound <span style=3D"letter-spacing: -0.3px;">design</span></div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> - Knowledge resources for MIR, including ontologies, knowledge graphs, and = entity <span style=3D"letter-spacing: -0.3px;">linking</span></div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> - Evaluation and human factors, including quality assessment, human feedbac= k, <span style=3D"letter-spacing: -0.3px;"> creativity, bias, and cultural representation</span></div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> - Trust, ethics, and transparency, including synthetic content detection an= d <span style=3D"letter-spacing: -0.3px;"> copyright-related considerations</span></div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> - Long-context modeling of musical structure and form</div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> - Multimodal methods involving text, symbolic music, and audio (as relevant= to the <span style=3D"letter-spacing: -0.3px;">collection=92s focus)</span></div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> <b><br> </b></div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> <b>Guest Editors:</b></div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> - Anna Kruspe (Lead Editor), Munich University of Applied Sciences</div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> - SeungHeon Doh, KAIST</div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> - Elena Epure, Idiap Research Institute</div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> - Yinghao Ma, Queen Mary University of London</div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> - Arthur Flexer, Johannes Kepler Universit=E4t Linz</div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> - Li Su, Institute of Information Science</div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> - Ruibin Yuan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology</div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> <br> </div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> <b>Submission Guidelines:</b></div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> - Submission Link: <a href=3D"https://transactions.ismir.net/" target=3D"_b= lank" id=3D"OWA40dfa7d3-d88c-dc7e-a1e1-bbdf6447e49c" class=3D"OWAAutoLink" = title=3D"https://transactions.ismir.net/" rel=3D"noopener noreferrer" data-= auth=3D"NotApplicable" data-linkindex=3D"0" data-ogsc=3D"" style=3D"margin:= 0px;"> https://transactions.ismir.net</a></div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> - Note: Please specify in your cover letter that the submission is for the&= nbsp;Special Collection "Language-Centric Music Information Retri= eval".</div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> - Word Limit: Maximum 8,000 words.</div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> - Pre-notification: If you plan to submit, please let us know via email at&= nbsp;anna.kruspe@xxxxxxxx to assist our planning.</div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> <br> </div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> For detailed formatting guidelines and information regarding extensions of = previously published workshop research, please refer to the TISMIR&nbs= p;website. We look forward to receiving your innovative contributions!</div= > <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> <br> </div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> <br> </div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> Best regards,</div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui; = font-size: 14px; color: black;"> On behalf of the Guest Editors</div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFo= nt, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; c= olor: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> </body> </html> --_000_AS4PR07MB846066CF943188FD26414329BE342AS4PR07MB8460eurp_--