Abstract
Exemplified in the substantial amount of published research in music genre recognition, mood recognition and autotagging, content-based music information retrieval (MIR) advances an "engineering approach'': build a system producing the most "correct'' answers in datasets appearing throughout the literature. However, it has been clearly shown that much of this research is deficient in: formally and explicitly defining problems and use cases; identifying and testing underlying assumptions;
and using evaluation with the validity to address relevant hypotheses. This means that a system so engineered might not even be considering the through it answers "correctly''. It could thus be worthless for addressing real-world problems that must consider (e.g., music description). To emphasise the critical points above, and encourage a new approaches to research that address real-world problems,
we present four challenges for MIR researchers.
and using evaluation with the validity to address relevant hypotheses. This means that a system so engineered might not even be considering the through it answers "correctly''. It could thus be worthless for addressing real-world problems that must consider (e.g., music description). To emphasise the critical points above, and encourage a new approaches to research that address real-world problems,
we present four challenges for MIR researchers.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication date | 2015 |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
| Event | Digital Music Research Network 9 - Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom Duration: 16 Dec 2014 → 16 Dec 2014 |
Workshop
| Workshop | Digital Music Research Network 9 |
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| Location | Queen Mary University of London |
| Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
| City | London |
| Period | 16/12/2014 → 16/12/2014 |