Information Retrieval Gupf

One of my early, longstanding information retrieval passions is Music Information Retrieval — especially content-based music IR.  I began research in MIR back in 1998 as a graduate student at UMass Amherst.  In 2000, we organized the very first ISMIR conference, in Plymouth Massachusetts.
Music IR hits a sweet spot between information retrieval, information seeking, pattern [...]

The title of this blog is “Information Retrieval Gupf”.  I’ll wager that more than a few of you are wondering what a Gupf is.
Gupf is an Austrian slang/dialect form of the high German word “Gipfel”, which means “peak” or “summit”, as on a mountain.  My idea for naming the blog “Information Retrieval Gupf” was to [...]