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<font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Dear MEI-list,<br>
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Richard Sutcliffe, Tim Crawford, Ed Hovy and Deane Root are proposing a task at MediaEval 2014 which might be of interest to members of this group. It is a combination of natural language processing and musical score analysis.<br>
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Participants each build a computer system over the coming months which can take as input a natural language noun phrase (e.g. 'harmonic perfect fifth') and a short classical music score in machine-readable form (e.g. J.S. Bach, Suite No. 3 in C Major for Cello,
BWV 1009, Sarabande) and return an answer stating the location of the requested feature (e.g. 'Bar 206').
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The proposal can be found at this URL: <br>
</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><a href="http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas01tc/camerata.pdf" target="_blank"> http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas01tc/camerata.pdf</a><br>
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Results will be compared in October in Barcelona.<br>
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Would you be interested in taking part or do you know anyone who might be? If so we wonder if you could consider going to
<a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/mediaeval2014" target="_blank">https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/mediaeval2014</a>, within it going to task number two - Camerata -, say you are interested in participating and then submit the questionnaire. The level of
interest decides whether it will go ahead.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
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Tim Crawford</font><br>
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