[AUDITORY] Call for Papers: ISMIR 2021

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ISMIR 2021, Online, November 8-12, 2021

https://ismir2021.github.io/

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The annual conference of the International Society for Music Information
Retrieval (ISMIR) is the world’s leading research forum on processing,
analyzing, searching, organizing and accessing music-related data. The
22nd ISMIR conference, to be held online, welcomes contributions related
to any aspect of Music IR, including foundations and theories for music
processing, evaluation algorithms, applications, and analysis.

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Important Dates

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Time zone: Anywhere On Earth (AOE)
Abstract Submission: May 8, 2021
Final Submission: May 15, 2021
Notification of Acceptance: July 9, 2021
Camera-Ready Upload: August 2, 2021

There will be *no extension* to the submission deadlines. However,
authors of registered papers on or before May 8th will be allowed to
upload new versions of their papers until May 15th.

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Submission Guidelines

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All submissions must comply with the following requirements:

Length (6+n pages): papers must contain at most 6 pages of scientific
content (including figures and tables), with additional optional pages
that contain only references and acknowledgments.

Templates: papers must be submitted in PDF format using the ISMIR 2021
templates (LaTex or Word) to be released soon. You may not manipulate
the style files in any way.

File size: submitted PDF files must be at most 4MB in size. Please
compress images and figures as necessary before submitting.

Originality: papers must be original contributions. They cannot have
been published elsewhere nor currently submitted for publication
anywhere else. All relevant work, including direct quotations from your
own work, should be cited.

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Submissions

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Submission system: We will use Microsoft CMT (the submission link will
be released soon).

Supplementary material: In addition to the PDF file of the manuscript,
authors will be able to also upload supplementary files for their
submission, such as audio samples, code or additional results. We
strongly encourage authors to do this.

Main message: During submission, authors will be asked for ONE line of
text stating the main take-home message of their work. This information
will NOT be available to reviewers or meta-reviewers; it is intended to
help organize cohesive sessions for the conference.

Anonymity: ISMIR reviews are double-blind; authors and reviewers will be
anonymous to each other. For the initial submission, please keep the
author list from appearing in the text. Also, do not add any links/URLs
that could reveal authors’ identity (e.g., to github pages). Likewise,
make any self-citations in the third person, although self-citations
should be kept to a minimum. Note that acknowledgments must not be
included in the anonymized submission.

Preprints: to maintain the legitimacy for our double-blind review
process, we strongly discourage authors from posting near duplicate
manuscripts on public archives (technical reports, arXiv, etc.). In the
same spirit, to protect our double-blind reviewing process, authors need
to make sure they do not promote their work in any way during the review
process (social media, blog, mailing-list, etc.), since this may prevent
preserving anonymity.

Submissions that deviate from any of the above requirements will be
automatically rejected.

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Review Process

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In order to ensure the quality of the papers published at the
conference, all submissions will be evaluated according to the following
criteria:

- Novelty
- Scholarly/scientific quality
- Reusable insights
- Thought-provoking potential
- Appropriateness of topic
- Importance
- Presentation and readability

We especially call for submissions that explicitly discuss reusable
insights, that is, insights that may go beyond the scope of the paper,
domain or application, to build up consistent knowledge across the MIR
community.

The reviewing workflow follows a two-tier model, i.e. with one level of
“regular” reviewers, and another level of “meta-reviewers”. All
papers are examined by at least three reviewers.

Accepted papers must be presented at the conference by one of the
authors, and at least one of the authors must register before the
deadline given for author registration (TBD). Failure to register before
the deadline will result in automatic withdrawal of the paper from the
conference proceedings and program.

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Topics of Interest

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ISMIR 2021 welcomes full-paper contributions to any aspect of Music IR.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

- MIR fundamentals and methodology: music signal processing; symbolic
music processing; metadata, tags, linked data, and semantic web; lyrics
and other textual data, web mining, and natural language processing;
multimodality.

- Domain knowledge: representations of music; music acoustics;
computational music theory and musicology; cognitive MIR; machine
learning/artificial intelligence for music.

- Musical features and properties: melody and motives; harmony, chords
and tonality; rhythm, beat, tempo; structure, segmentation, and form;
timbre, instrumentation, and voice; musical style and genre; musical
affect, emotion and mood; expression and performative aspects of music.

- MIR tasks: sound source separation; music transcription and
annotation; optical music recognition; alignment, synchronization, and
score following; music summarization; music synthesis and
transformation; fingerprinting; automatic classification; indexing and
querying; pattern matching and detection; similarity metrics.

- Evaluation, datasets, and reproducibility: evaluation methodology;
evaluation metrics; novel datasets and use cases; annotation protocols;
reproducibility; MIR tasks.

- Philosophical and ethical discussions: philosophical and
methodological foundations; legal and societal aspects of MIR; ethical
issues related to designing and implementing MIR tools and technologies.


- Human-centered MIR: user behavior analysis and mining, user modeling;
human-computer interaction and interfaces; personalization;
user-centered evaluation.

- Applications: digital libraries and archives; music retrieval systems;
music recommendation and playlist generation; music and health,
well-being and therapy; music training and education; music composition,
performance, and production; gaming; business and marketing.

For additional information, you can reach the program chairs via email
at ismir2021-papers@xxxxxxxxx [1].

Zhiyao Duan, Peter van Kranenburg, Juhan Nam, and Preeti Rao

ISMIR 2021 Scientific Program Chairs