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Assessing the performance of melodic similarity algorithms using human judgments of similarity

  • Margaret Cahill
  • , Donncha Ó Maidín
    • Centre for Computational Musicology and Computer Music
    • University of Limerick

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    Abstract

    This paper outlines a project to identify reliable algorithms for measuring melodic similarity by using melodies extracted from a piece of music in Theme and Variations form, for which human judgements of similarity have been gathered.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationISMIR 2006 - 7th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval
    PublisherUniversity of Victoria
    Pages355-356
    Number of pages2
    ISBN (Print)9781550583496
    Publication statusPublished - 2006
    Event7th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR 2006 - Victoria, BC, Canada
    Duration: 8 Oct 200612 Oct 2006

    Publication series

    NameISMIR 2006 - 7th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval

    Conference

    Conference7th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR 2006
    Country/TerritoryCanada
    CityVictoria, BC
    Period8/10/0612/10/06

    Keywords

    • Human similarity judgments
    • Melodic similarity
    • Scores

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