Toward the Scientific Evaluation of Music Information Retrieval Systems

走向音乐信息检索系统的科学评估

• 批准号: 0328471
• 负责人: John Downie
• 金额: $ 50.49万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-15 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0328471&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Toward; Scientific; Evaluation; Music; Information

Music Information Retrieval (MIR) is a new and vibrant international, multidisciplinary research endeavor that strives to develop innovative content-based searching schemes, novel interfaces, and evolving networked delivery mechanisms in an effort to make the world's vast store of music accessible to all. Librarians, musicologists, psychologists, audio engineers, music teachers and students, computer scientists, legal experts, music rights-holders, and business executives are all involved. This project is designed enhance the efforts being made to establish a scientific evaluation paradigm within the MIR research community. Major issues addressed in this project include the comprehension of the complex nature of music information; adequately capturing the complex nature of music queries; and an in-depth examination of the "relevance" problem in the MIR context. To these ends, this project undertakes the creation of comprehensive set of data-rich query records that are both grounded in real-world requirements and neutral with respect to retrieval technique(s) being examined; the adoption, and subsequent validation, of a "reasonable person" approach to "relevance" assessment; the establishment of scientifically valid experimental protocols; and, the ongoing acquisition of music information (audio, symbolic and metadata) to enhance the development of a secure, yet accessible, research environment that allows researchers to remotely participate in the use of the large-scale testbed collection. Because this project significantly enhances the infrastructure of MIR research, it plays a pivotal role in improving access to the world's vast music resources. Thus, this project impacts the way music lovers, scholars, educators, students, industrial and commercial developers, and all other interested parties, will be interacting with music in the future. The project Web site (http://music-ir.org) provides access to the research materials, publications and updates.

音乐信息检索(MIR)是一项新的、充满活力的国际多学科研究努力，致力于开发创新的基于内容的搜索方案、新颖的界面和不断发展的网络交付机制，努力使世界上巨大的音乐商店为所有人所访问。图书馆员、音乐学家、心理学家、音响工程师、音乐教师和学生、计算机科学家、法律专家、音乐版权持有者和企业高管都参与其中。该项目旨在加强正在进行的努力，以便在和平研究所研究界内建立一种科学的评估模式。该项目涉及的主要问题包括：对音乐信息的复杂性的理解；充分把握音乐查询的复杂性；以及深入研究和平与和平背景下的“相关性”问题。为此，该项目致力于创建一套全面的数据丰富的查询记录，这些记录既以现实世界的要求为基础，又对正在审查的检索技术(S)保持中立；采用“合理的人”方法进行“相关性”评估并随后进行验证；建立具有科学效力的实验方案；以及持续获取音乐信息(音频、符号和元数据)，以加强安全但可访问的研究环境的开发，使研究人员能够远程参与大规模试验台收藏的使用。由于这个项目大大加强了和平号研究的基础设施，它在改善获取世界上巨大的音乐资源方面发挥了关键作用。因此，这个项目将影响音乐爱好者、学者、教育工作者、学生、工商开发商和所有其他感兴趣的各方在未来与音乐互动的方式。该项目的网站(http://music-ir.org))提供对研究材料、出版物和更新的访问。