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There has been a recent explosion of interest in digital music libraries. In particular, interactive melody retrieval is a striking example of a search paradigm that differs radically from the standard full-text search. Many different techniques have been proposed for melody matching, but the area lacks standard databases that allow them to be compared on common grounds—and copyright issues have stymied attempts to develop such a corpus. This paper focuses on methods for evaluating different symbolic music matching strategies, and describes a series of experiments that compare and contrast results obtained using three dominant paradigms.
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Bainbridge, D., Dewsnip, M., Witten, I. (2002). Searching Digital Music Libraries. In: Lim, E.P., et al. Digital Libraries: People, Knowledge, and Technology. ICADL 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2555. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36227-4_13
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