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Many practices have been presented in music generation recently. While stylistic music generation using deep learning techniques has became the main stream, these models still struggle to generate music with high musicality, different…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Shuqi Dai , Xichu Ma , Ye Wang , Roger B. Dannenberg

The work of a single musician, group or composer can vary widely in terms of musical style. Indeed, different stylistic elements, from performance medium and rhythm to harmony and texture, are typically exploited and developed across an…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Sergey Shuvaev , Hamza Giaffar , Alexei A. Koulakov

Modeling various aspects that make a music piece unique is a challenging task, requiring the combination of multiple sources of information. Deep learning is commonly used to obtain representations using various sources of information, such…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Andres Ferraro , Xavier Favory , Konstantinos Drossos , Yuntae Kim , Dmitry Bogdanov

Subword tokenization has been widely successful in text-based natural language processing (NLP) tasks with Transformer-based models. As Transformer models become increasingly popular in symbolic music-related studies, it is imperative to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Adarsh Kumar , Pedro Sarmento

A flexible recommendation and retrieval system requires music similarity in terms of multiple partial elements of musical pieces to allow users to select the element they want to focus on. A method for music similarity learning using…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yuka Hashizume , Li Li , Atsushi Miyashita , Tomoki Toda

Abundant and diverse data on medicines manufacturing and other lifecycle components has been made easily accessible in the last decades. However, a significant proportion of this information is characterised by not being tabulated and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Diego Alvarado-Maldonado , Blair Johnston , Cameron J. Brown

State-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) models are trained on massive training corpora, and report a superlative performance on evaluation datasets. This survey delves into an important attribute of these datasets: the dialect of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Aditya Joshi , Raj Dabre , Diptesh Kanojia , Zhuang Li , Haolan Zhan , Gholamreza Haffari , Doris Dippold

This article reviews recent advances in applying natural language processing (NLP) to Electronic Health Records (EHRs) for computational phenotyping. NLP-based computational phenotyping has numerous applications including diagnosis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Zexian Zeng , Yu Deng , Xiaoyu Li , Tristan Naumann , Yuan Luo

In the use of deep neural networks, it is crucial to provide appropriate input representations for the network to learn from. In this paper, we propose an approach to learn a representation that focus on rhythmic representation which is…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Yeonwoo Jeong , Keunwoo Choi , Hosan Jeong

Information retrieval aims to find information that meets users' needs from the corpus. Different needs correspond to different IR tasks such as document retrieval, open-domain question answering, retrieval-based dialogue, etc., while they…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Shicheng Xu , Liang Pang , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

Representation learning is the foundation of natural language processing (NLP). This work presents new methods to employ visual information as assistant signals to general NLP tasks. For each sentence, we first retrieve a flexible number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Zhuosheng Zhang , Kehai Chen , Rui Wang , Masao Utiyama , Eiichiro Sumita , Zuchao Li , Hai Zhao

Standard natural language processing (NLP) pipelines operate on symbolic representations of language, which typically consist of sequences of discrete tokens. However, creating an analogous representation for ancient logographic writing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Danlu Chen , Freda Shi , Aditi Agarwal , Jacobo Myerston , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Despite the recent success of deep neural networks in natural language processing (NLP), their interpretability remains a challenge. We analyze the representations learned by neural machine translation models at various levels of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Yonatan Belinkov , Nadir Durrani , Fahim Dalvi , Hassan Sajjad , James Glass

Cover song identification represents a challenging task in the field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) due to complex musical variations between query tracks and cover versions. Previous works typically utilize hand-crafted features and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Zhesong Yu , Xiaoshuo Xu , Xiaoou Chen , Deshun Yang

The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) heralds a pivotal shift in online user interactions with information. Traditional Information Retrieval (IR) systems primarily relied on query-document matching, whereas LLMs excel in comprehending…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Samira Ghodratnama , Mehrdad Zakershahrak

The process of reconstructing experiences from human brain activity offers a unique lens into how the brain interprets and represents the world. In this paper, we introduce a method for reconstructing music from brain activity, captured…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-12 Timo I. Denk , Yu Takagi , Takuya Matsuyama , Andrea Agostinelli , Tomoya Nakai , Christian Frank , Shinji Nishimoto

Text-based representations of chemicals and proteins can be thought of as unstructured languages codified by humans to describe domain-specific knowledge. Advances in natural language processing (NLP) methodologies in the processing of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-17 Hakime Öztürk , Arzucan Özgür , Philippe Schwaller , Teodoro Laino , Elif Ozkirimli

Polyphonic music generation is still a challenge direction due to its correct between generating melody and harmony. Most of the previous studies used RNN-based models. However, the RNN-based models are hard to establish the relationship…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Jiuyang Zhou , Hong Zhu , Xingping Wang

This document presents some early explorations of applying Softly Masked Language Modelling (SMLM) to symbolic music generation. SMLM can be seen as a generalisation of masked language modelling (MLM), where instead of each element of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Nicolas Jonason , Bob L. T. Sturm

Music emotion recognition is an important task in MIR (Music Information Retrieval) research. Owing to factors like the subjective nature of the task and the variation of emotional cues between musical genres, there are still significant…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Shreyan Chowdhury , Verena Praher , Gerhard Widmer