Towards Logic-based Representations of Musical Harmony for Classification, Retrieval and Knowledge Discovery

Submitted by kurtjx on Tue, 12/09/2008 - 10:16.

Publication Type:

Conference Paper

Authors:

Anglade, A.; Dixon, S.

Source:

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Machine Learning and Music (MML2008 held in conjunction with ICML/COLT/UAI 2008), Helsinki, Finland (2008)

Abstract:

We present a logic-based framework using a relational description of musical data and logical inference for automatic characterisation of music. It is intended to be an alternative to the bag-of-frames approach for classification tasks but is also suitable for retrieval and musical knowledge discovery. We present the first results obtained with such a system using Inductive Logic Programming as inference method to characterise the Beatles and Real Book harmony. We conclude with a discussion of the knowledge representation problems we faced during these first tests.