This paper concerns the segmentation and automatic transcription of acoustic musical signals. First, a method is proposed for estimating the temporal structure of music, the musical meter. The method consists of an acoustic analysis front-end and of a subsequent probabilistic model which performs joint estimation of the meter at three time scales: beat (tactus), measure, and tatum pulse levels....

As a prerequisite to translation of poetry, we implement the ability to produce translations with meter and rhyme for phrase-based MT, examine whether the hypothesis space of such a system is flexible enough to accomodate such constraints, and investigate the impact of such constraints on translation quality.

Many connectionist approaches to musical expectancy and music composition let the question of “What next?” overshadow the equally important question of “When next?”. One cannot escape the latter question, one of temporal structure, when considering the perception of musical meter. We view the perception of metrical structure as a dynamic process where the temporal organization of external music...

This paper describes an 8-path ultrasonic flow meter, with emphasis on how this meter can be used as a master meter with traceability to appropriate standards. In particular the paper describes the methodology whereby transit time measurements and calibration factors can be established in factory and laboratory tests and then verified in the field. Simulations of distorted and swirling flows, a...