Experiments on Segmentation Techniques for Music Documents Indexing

This paper presents an overview of different approaches to melody segmentation aimed at extracting music lexical units, which can be used as content descriptors of music documents. Four approaches have been implemented and compared on a test collection of real documents and queries, showing their impact on index term size and on retrieval effectiveness. From the results, simple but extensive approaches seem to give better performances than more sophisticated segmentation algorithms.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ISMIR
• Authors: Giovanna Neve, Nicola Orio
• Keywords: Index Term Size, Information Retrieval, ISMIR 2005, Music Lexical Units, Sophisticated Segmentation Algorithms