TNKG at the MediaEval 2015 C@merata Task

This paper explores a method to answer natural language musicological queries against electronic music scores, with the aim of developing a complete grammar specification in the domain. Our system takes a three step approach to finding the answers to the queries first, it replaces the musical features in the question with our own tags in a key value form, and also replaces words in the question with equivalents from a synonym list. This is to normalize the natural language and minimize the search space. Second, based on the word sequence in the normalized question, an inference on the type of question is made using handwritten rules. Finally, we have functions that search through the MusicXML for the answer based on the question type.