Question: vocabulary for instruments?

[bmcfee]

I noticed that there's a vocabulary for function annotations, and the structure annotations otherwise have a well-formed scheme that can be modeled by a regexp.

What about the instrument annotations? Do these come from a known, finite set, or should they be interpreted as belonging an open vocabulary?

[jblsmith]

The instrument annotations do indeed come from an open vocabulary—you'll
notice the occurrence of "vocal", "voice", "vocals", and other synonymous
groups. They were also the most complex to annotate—ii.e., the easiest to
screw up with a misplaced bracket—which is why they still haven't been
officially "cleaned."

On 3 February 2016 at 23:49, Brian McFee [email protected] wrote:

I noticed that there's a vocabulary for function annotations, and the
structure annotations otherwise have a well-formed scheme that can be
modeled by a regexp.

What about the instrument annotations? Do these come from a known, finite
set, or should they be interpreted as belonging an open vocabulary?

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[bmcfee]

I see, thanks.

I suppose a tangential question is: are the salami annotations complete, or do you foresee more annotations following these guidelines being produced in the future? If the former, it wouldn't be too difficult to crunch through the data and normalize the annotations, maybe with some judicious application of stemming.

[jblsmith]

I could see them revised in a few ways, depending on what purpose you
foresee the instrument tags being used for. (Something we could talk about
at Dagstuhl soon?)

In fact, the instrument tags were collected even though no immediate
evaluation purpose was planned; it was something where, having that extra
level of detail seemed to make the annotations feel more "complete" of a
record to the listener. Without that level of detail, the annotator would
probably want to add these dimensions of the music to the other labels (as
we see in the "verse-guitar" and "piano solo" labels in the Beatles
annotations, for example).

On 4 February 2016 at 00:06, Brian McFee [email protected] wrote:

I see, thanks.

I suppose a tangential question is: are the salami annotations complete,
or do you foresee more annotations following these guidelines being
produced in the future? If the former, it wouldn't be too difficult to
crunch through the data and normalize the annotations, maybe with some
judicious application of stemming.

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