ISMIR 2001 - Call for Participation

[Michel Fingerhut]

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ISMIR (International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval) 2001
October 15-17, 2001 @ Indiana University Bloomington
http://ismir2001.indiana.edu/
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Join us for ISMIR 2001 - an intensive and lively forum on the rapidly
emerging realm of Music Information Retrieval (Music IR)!  ISMIR 2001
builds upon the very successful ISMIR 2000 meeting held last year in
Plymouth, Massachusetts. Explore with your colleagues the exciting
potential Music IR has for a wide variety of applications in the
educational and academic domains as well as in the area of
entertainment. ISMIR offers the only information exchange to focus
exclusively on Music IR, enabling scholars to move more quickly toward
viable solutions to many challenges.

Call for participation submissions deadline is May 14, 2001 (details
below).

Sincerely,

The ISMIR Organizing Committee

J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (ISMIR Chair)
David Bainbridge, University of Waikato, New Zealand (Program Chair)
Gerry Bernbom, Indiana University
Donald Byrd, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Tim Crawford, Kings College, London
Michael Fingerhut, IRCAM - Centre Pompidou, Paris

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*** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** DEADLINE: MAY 14, 2001 ***
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PAPERS

* Submissions must be received by May 14, 2001
* 3000 - 5000 words (approximately 10 pages)
* Include 150-200 words abstract
* Must consist of original contributions (not previously published,
   and not currently being considered for publication elsewhere)
* To be peer-reviewed
* In the event there are more excellent papers than can fit into the
symposium program, we may request some paper submissions become poster
sessions
* To submit your paper, two steps are required:
	1) Provide author information and paper title using using the Web
form provided
	2) Use the template for formatting instruction

	The Web form and template are provided at:
http://ismir2001.indiana.edu/

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POSTER SESSIONS

* Submissions must be received by May 14, 2001
* Extended abstract 750 - 1000 words
 (2 pages maximum, including references, to be included
in symposium proceedings)
* Poster sessions will consist of printed posters - exact sizes TBA.
* Internet connection will be provided for each poster session
* You are encouraged to bring a laptop computer
* To submit your poster, two steps are required:
	1) Provide author information and paper title using using the Web
form provided
	2) Use the template for formatting instruction

	The Web form and template are provided at:
http://ismir2001.indiana.edu/

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ISMIR 2001 THEMES

Topics to be covered may include, but are not limited to, the
following:

   * Music representation and indexing
   * Estimating similarity of music
     - perceptual criteria such as pitch, rhythm, timbre;
     - musical criteria such as form, genre, etc.
   * Problems of recognizing music optically and/or via audio
   * Routing and filtering for music
   * Building up music databases
   * Evaluation of music-IR systems
   * Intellectual property rights issues
   * User interfaces for music IR
   * Issues related to musical styles and genres
   * Language modeling for music
   * User needs and expectations

Music in this context is not restricted to a particular genre
(monophonic, polyphonic, non-Western, microtonal, polyrhythmic, etc.)
nor to a particular encoding or representation (sheet music, MIDI,
recorded vocal and/or electroacoustic music, etc.).

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KEYNOTE ADDRESS

David Cope is a composer, music theorist, and professor of music at the
University of California, Santa Cruz. Cope has been interested for many
years in what might be described as simulating specific musical styles
by computer: he is the creator of software that implements, books that
describe, and CDs that demonstrate (with Bach, Mozart, Prokofieff and
other composers) his unique and remarkably successful approach. More
recently, he has been working on a program that analyzes music for
allusions to other music.

Other invited speakers - to be announced.

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IMPORTANT DATES

	May 14, 2001 -- Deadline for Paper/Poster Submissions
	June 29, 2001 -- Authors Notified of Committee Decision
	August 6, 2001  -- Final Paper Submission
	September 29, 2001 -- Registration Deadline

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ISMIR 2001 LOCATION AND ACCOMMODATIONS

ISMIR will be held on the beautiful campus of Indiana University
Bloomington (http://www.iub.edu/). You'll feel right at home in the
casual, academic atmosphere during the most brilliantly colorful time of
the fall season. The Indiana Memorial Union,
(http://www.imu.indiana.edu/) the centerpiece of the campus, is the
location for most ISMIR activities as well as the hotel.

The ISMIR Web pages will be updated regularly to include an online
registration form and program content and schedule. The registration fee
for ISMIR will be $150.

   http://ismir2001.indiana.edu/