abstract. in the 18th century, the term ‘wit’ was held to be almost equal to the term ‘spirit’, and its notion, being applied both in music and in literature, was one of the most fundamental themes in poetry in the age of enlightenment. the meaning of the word changed during the time, however, its importance lasted until the romantic era. at that period, the term ‘wit’ was defined as ‘intellige...

Did Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) re-use material when composing his piano sonatas? What repeated patterns are distinctive of Beethoven’s piano sonatas compared, say, to those of Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)? Traditionally, in preparation for essays on topics such as these, music analysts have undertaken inter-opus pattern discovery—informally or systematically—which is the task of identifyin...

This paper presents on-going work on constructing bilingual multimodal corpora of referring expressions in collaborative problem solving for English and Japanese. The corpora were collected from dialogues in which two participants collaboratively solved Tangram puzzles with a puzzle simulator. Extra-linguistic information such as operations on puzzle pieces, mouse cursor position and piece posi...

An increasing number of cultural institutions accept the challenge to build digital libraries. They start the process of digitising and describing their treasures in order to present them to cultural audiences as digital media. So did the Beethoven House in Bonn who owns the largest and most valuable collection of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven. In cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute f...

Composers commonly employ ornamentation and elaboration techniques to generate varied versions of an initial core melodic idea. Dynamic programming techniques, based on edit operations, are used to find similarities between melodic strings. However, replacements, insertions and deletions may give non-musically pertinent similarities, especially if rhythmic or metrical structure is not considere...