Browsing Mathematics (Faculty of) by Supervisor "Brown, Daniel"
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Modelling Chart Trajectories using Song Features
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-23)Over the years, hit song science has been a controversial topic within music information retrieval. Researchers have debated whether an unbiased dataset can be constructed to model song performance in a meaningful way. ... -
People know how diverse their music recommendations should be; why don’t we?
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-17)While many researchers have proposed various ways of quantifying recommendation list diversity, these approaches have had little input from users on their own perceptions and preferences in seeking diversity. Through a ... -
Style Recognition in Music with Context Free Grammars and Kolmogorov Complexity
(University of Waterloo, 2020-03-11)The Kolmogorov Complexity of an object is incomputable. But built in its structure is a way to specify description methods of an object that is computable in some sense. Such a description method then can be exploited ... -
TwitSong: A current events computer poet and the thorny problem of assessment.
(University of Waterloo, 2018-11-29)This thesis is driven by the question of how computers can generate poetry, and how that poetry can be evaluated. We survey existing work on computer-generated poetry and interdisciplinary work on how to evaluate this type ...