Challenges in Cross-Cultural/Multilingual Music Information Seeking

Understanding and meeting the needs of a broad range of music users across different cultures and languages are central in designing a global music digital library. This exploratory study examines cross-cultural/multilingual music information seeking behaviors and reveals some important characteristics of these behaviors by analyzing 107 authentic music information queries from a Korean knowledge search portal Naver 지식 (knowledge) iN and 150 queries from Google Answers website. We conclude that new sets of access points must be developed to accommodate music queries that cross cultural or language boundaries.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ISMIR
• Authors: Jin Ha Lee, J. Stephen Downie, Sally Jo Cunningham
• Keywords: Examines Cross-cultural/multilingual Music, Information Retrieval, ISMIR 2005, Music Digital Library, Music Information Queries