Introduction

MUMT621

Topics

• Course description
  • Overview of selected topics in Music Information Retrieval (MIR) via presentations
  • How to efficiently conduct research
  • Final project, either:
    • Software project with description (2–3 pages) (Repository on Github)
    • Research paper (5–10 pages) (ISMIR style). Submit it to ISMIR
• Topics: Overview
• MIR resources
• Google Advanced Search
• Literature search
• LLMs (Try and compare: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot)
  • Topbots
  • Prompt Engineering:
    • Learn Prompting
    • Dave Birss (video) (no need to sign up)
  • McGill Guideline
  • Google NotebookLM
    • Learn 80% of NotebookLM in Under 13 Minutes! (video)
    • NotebookLM: A Breakthrough for Researchers (video)
    • 12 NotebookLM Epic Use Cases You Must Try (video)
  • Try Gemini Advanced (free for one month, starting March / April?)
• History (SIGIR 1999: Call, Proceeding; ISMIR 2000)
• Early examples
  • Melodic arch (1996)
  • Melody type map (1999)