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 recognition, data mining and information extraction, and user information needs. It is a field that is full of rich but solvable problems. And it’s music.. who doesn’t like that?
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