Text, Context, Music

Personalized Text-Based Music Retrieval

We consider the problem of personalized text-based music retrieval where users’ history of preferences are taken into account in addition to their issued textual queries. Current retrieval methods mostly rely on songs meta-data. This limits the query vocabulary. Moreover, it is very costly to gather this information in large collections of music. Alternatively, we use music annotations retrieve...

Context and Text

Text and context are two essential elements in human communication. Text can not exist in a vacuum. Its production and comprehension are influenced and restricted by context. This paper aims to analyze the relations between context and text with the framework of both traditional context and cognitive context by Sperber & Wilson.

Generating text in context

While the World Wide Web sets the scene for the future of information sciences, a great opportunity and challenge is created for researchers in natural language generation. The present WWW paradigm in which the user is looking for information on the net, trying to interpret it, to determine what is important and useful becomes problematic as the amount of information explodes. A new paradigm ne...

Social Context and Absolute Music

Browsing Music by Usage Context

This paper aims to motivate and demonstrate how widely available environmental data can be exploited to allow organization, structuring and exploration of music collections by personal listening contexts. We describe a logging plug-in for music players that automatically records data about the listening context and discuss possible extensions for more sophisticated context logging. Based on dat...