most citedNatural Language Processing Methods for Symbolic Music Generation and Information Retrieval: a Survey

36 citations

5 papers

cs.IR2025

Evaluating Interval-based Tokenization for Pitch Representation in Symbolic Music Analysis

Dinh-Viet-Toan Le, Louis Bigo, Mikaela Keller

Symbolic music analysis tasks are often performed by models originally developed for Natural Language Processing, such as Transformers. Such models require the input data to be rep…

cs.IR2024

Analyzing Byte-Pair Encoding on Monophonic and Polyphonic Symbolic Music: A Focus on Musical Phrase Segmentation

Dinh-Viet-Toan Le, Louis Bigo, Mikaela Keller

Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE) is an algorithm commonly used in Natural Language Processing to build a vocabulary of subwords, which has been recently applied to symbolic music. Given th…

cs.SD2024

Towards Explainable and Interpretable Musical Difficulty Estimation: A Parameter-efficient Approach

Pedro Ramoneda, Vsevolod Eremenko, Alexandre D'Hooge +2

Estimating music piece difficulty is important for organizing educational music collections. This process could be partially automatized to facilitate the educator's role. Neverthe…

cs.SD2024

Guitar Chord Diagram Suggestion for Western Popular Music

Alexandre d'Hooge, Louis Bigo, Ken Déguernel +1

Chord diagrams are used by guitar players to show where and how to play a chord on the fretboard. They are useful to beginners learning chords or for sharing the hand positions req…

cs.IR2024★ 36 cited

Natural Language Processing Methods for Symbolic Music Generation and Information Retrieval: a Survey

Dinh-Viet-Toan Le, Louis Bigo, Mikaela Keller +1

Several adaptations of Transformers models have been developed in various domains since its breakthrough in Natural Language Processing (NLP). This trend has spread into the field…