Multiple Viewpoints Modeling of Tabla Sequences
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چکیده
We describe a system that attempts to predict the continuation of a symbolically encoded tabla composition at each time step using a variable-length n-gram model. Using cross-entropy as a measure of model fit, the best model attained an entropy rate of 0.780 in a cross-validation experiment, showing that symbolic tabla compositions can be effectively encoded using such a model. The choice of smoothing algorithm, which determines how information from different-order models is combined, is found to be an important factor in the models performance. We extend the basic n-gram model by adding viewpoints, other streams of information that can be used to improve predictive performance. First, we show that adding a short-term model, built on the current composition and not the entire corpus, leads to substantial improvements. Additional experiments were conducted with derived types, representations derived from the basic data type (stroke names), and cross-types, which model dependencies between parameters, such as duration and stroke name. For this database, such extensions improved performance only marginally, although this may have been due to the low entropy rate attained by the basic model.
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N-gram Modeling of Tabla Sequences Using Variable-length Hidden Markov Models for Improvisation and Composition
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