A Music Retrieval System with Spelling Correction Technique

In this paper, we describe a novel music information retrieval system using spelling correction technique. The current music retrieval systems with humming enable a user give a query with humming. However, there is a problem that a user cannot always input a complete melody to the system with humming. It is because the user often mistakes a melody in its query. In order to solve the problem, we employ the spelling correction technique, which is used usually in a document processing system. Our system first converts user’s query by humming into melody information then in order to apply the spell correction, “term” and“characters”are extracted from the melody. Finally, our system can correct the mistake of the user’s query by the spelling correction technique.