An investigation of music analysis by the application of grammar-based compressors

Humphreys, David, Sidorov, Kirill ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7935-4132, Jones, Andrew and Marshall, David 2021. An investigation of music analysis by the application of grammar-based compressors. Journal of New Music Research 50 (4) , pp. 312-341. 10.1080/09298215.2021.1978505

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Abstract

Many studies have presented computational models of musical structure, as an important aspect of musicological analysis. However, the use of grammar-based compressors to automatically recover such information is a relatively new and promising technique. We investigate their performance extensively using a collection of nearly 8000 scores, on tasks including error detection, classification, and segmentation, and compare this with a range of more traditional compressors. Further, we detail a novel method for locating transcription errors based on grammar compression. Despite its lack of domain knowledge, we conclude that grammar-based compression offers competitive performance when solving a variety of musicological tasks.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Computer Science & Informatics Advanced Research Computing @ Cardiff (ARCCA)
Additional Information:	This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis Group
ISSN:	0929-8215
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	11 October 2021
Date of Acceptance:	1 September 2021
Last Modified:	17 May 2023 21:24
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/144808

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