[cmc-users] Fwd: MIREX 2005 call forwarding

[douglas irving repetto]

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>MIREX 2005    2nd Annual Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange
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>September 11-15, 2005 London, UK
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>CALL FOR EVALUATION TOPICS
>DEADLINE January 16, 2005
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>The 2nd Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange will take 
>place during the 6th ISMIR Conference in London, UK, September 
>11-15, 2005. The goal of this contest is to compare state-of-the-art 
>algorithms and systems relevant for Music Information Retrieval. We 
>aim at MIREX to represent the vast and multidisciplinary field of 
>MIR, including symbolic, audio, and other subdisciplines.
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>- Evaluation topics will be proposed by the participants.
>- Evaluation procedures and test collections will be agreed among 
>the participants.
>- Partial test data will be made available to the participants for 
>algorithm fine tuning.
>- Evaluation of submitted algorithms will be performed by the MIREX 
>organizing committee.
>- Results will be presented during a poster and a panel session.
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>As a first step, we are issuing a call for evaluation topics. Calls 
>for evaluation procedures and for participation will follow. 
>Interested individuals are invited to join the MIREX mailing list at 
>https://mail.isrl.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/evalfest to receive 
>these calls.
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>For more information, please see the ISMIR 2005 website at 
>http://ismir2005.ismir.net/
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>SUBMISSIONS
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>Submissions of evaluation topics should include:
>- a title
>- a short description of the problem to be addressed (data and query 
>type, expected results),
>- a list of possible participants (names, email addresses, and 
>likelihood of entering),
>- suggestions for evaluation procedures (metrics, listening tests, etc),
>- suggestions for relevant test collections (including how they 
>might be obtained and possible copyright issues).
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>Proposals should be submitted to J. Stephen Downie at 
>jdownie at uiuc.edu (MIREX General Chair) and Emmanuel Vincent at 
>emmanuel.vincent at elec.qmul.ac.uk (MIREX Local Chair) by January 16, 
>2005.
>The MIREX organizing committee will retain all proposals, score them 
>according to their likelihood of being held and publish them on the 
>MIREX mailing list and web site. All willing participants will have 
>until February 20, 2005 to amend the proposals. Then the MIREX 
>organizing committee will review the amended proposals and select 
>the ones that will be held.
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>We are looking forward to your contributions !
>
>The MIREX organizing committee.


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