Connectionists: Call for Papers ISMIR 2019 - Delft, The Netherlands

[Arthur Flexer]

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ISMIR 2019, Delft, The Netherlands, November 4-8 2019
20th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval
http://ismir2019.ismir.net
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The annual conference of the International Society for Music Information 
Retrieval (ISMIR) is the world’s leading research forum on processing, 
analyzing, searching, organizing and accessing music-related data. Music 
becomes music after being processed by the human mind and each person 
perceives the music in a different and complex way. Therefore, this 
conference embraces the complexity and diversity of music by showcasing 
ideas and applications that aim to enhance the way in which we interact 
with music.

Music Information Retrieval (MIR) is a truly interdisciplinary area, 
involving researchers, developers, educators, librarians, students and 
professionals from the disciplines of musicology, cognitive science, 
library and information science, computer science, electrical 
engineering and many others. The tagline for this year's conference is 
`Across the Bridge'. Our community reflects a diversity of scientific 
disciplines, seniority levels, professional affiliations, and cultural 
backgrounds. It always has been explicitly interested in fostering and 
stimulating this diversity, leading to better science and better music 
services. At ISMIR 2019, we want to explicitly encourage the community 
to take this a step further, and actively connect across the bridges 
between our backgrounds.

Like previous editions, ISMIR 2019 will provide a venue for the exchange 
of ideas, issues, results and perspectives among the different profiles 
of people working with music and computing in a broad sense. ISMIR 2019 
will cover the entire area of MIR, providing ample room for diversity 
and new developments.


CALL FOR PAPERS

ISMIR 2019 welcomes full-paper contributions to any aspect of Music IR. 
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

- MIR data and fundamentals: music signal processing; symbolic music 
processing; linked data; semantic web; NLP, multimodality

- Domain knowledge: representations of music; acoustics; computational 
music theory and musicology; cognitive MIR; machine learning and AI for 
music

- Evaluation and Methodology: philosophical foundations; evaluation 
methodology; reproducibility; statistical methods; datasets and 
annotation protocols; metrics

- Musical features and properties: melody and motives; harmony, chords 
and tonality; rhythm, beat, tempo; structure, segmentation; timbre, 
instrumentation and voice; style and genre, emotion and mood

- Music processing: sound source separation; transcription and 
annotation, optical music recognition; alignment, synchronization and 
score following; summarization; synthesis; fingerprinting; 
classification; indexing and querying; similarity

- User-centered MIR: user behavior and modeling; HCI and interfaces; 
personalization; user-centered evaluation; legal, social and ethical issues

- Applications: digital libraries and archives; music retrieval, 
recommendation and playlist generation; music and health; training and 
education; composition, performance and production; gaming; business and 
marketing

More details about submissions will be available at 
http://ismir2019.ewi.tudelft.nl/?q=call-for-papers

Important Dates

Abstract Submission, April 5, 2019
Final Submission, April 12, 2019
Notification of Acceptance, June 7, 2019
Camera-Ready Upload, June 28, 2019

Special paper category for ISMIR's 20th anniversary

To commemorate this year's anniversary of 20 years of ISMIR conferences, 
we are looking for papers which reflect on the development of MIR as a 
research field by charting MIR's progress over the last two decades but 
also elaborate on MIR's future. Such papers should provide a critical 
state-of-the-art overview of a broader MIR problem area and at the same 
time discuss the midterm future of this research area. Only a few of 
these papers will be selected. These papers will have oral presentations 
at the conference, and extended versions will be considered for 
inclusion, together with a regular set of submissions, for a special 
issue of the TISMIR (Transactions of the International Society for Music 
Information Retrieval) journal.

Scientific Program Chairs

Arthur Flexer, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Geoffroy Peeters, LTCI - Télécom ParisTech, France
Julián Urbano, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Anja Volk, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

General Conference Chairs

Cynthia Liem, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Emilia Gómez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain