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Call for Papers

Special Issue of
The IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
on Music Information Retrieval (MIR) 

This is a call for papers for a special issue on Music Information Retrieval to be published in late 2007 in the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing.  This is the premiere journal in the field of audio analysis, and we welcome the description of your novel research.

Music listening stands at an unprecedented point in history.  Never before have so many listeners had access to such a large collection of music.  Large online music providers offer consumers millions of songs from a catalog of material extending over many decades and genres.

But this rich experience comes with a drawback.  How do you choose what to listen to when you can choose from millions of different songs? How can music librarians satisfy their needs given the explosion of content? And what can we do to keep track of new music, when technology makes it possible for almost anyone to produce professional-quality music, and many more types of music are viable because of the markets enabled by the Internet?

We are inviting papers describing previously unpublished work in the following broad areas: music analysis, music understanding, music similarity, recommendations, systems issues, and user interface issues.  Specific topics of interest include:  
Submission procedure:

Prospective authors should prepare manuscripts according to the Information for Authors as published in any recent issue of the Transactions and as available on the web at http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/sp/infotsa.html. Note that all rules will apply with regard to submission lengths, mandatory overlength page charges, and color charges.

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically through the online IEEE manuscript submission system at http://sps-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/. When selecting a manuscript type, authors must click on "Special Issue of TASLP on Music Information Retrieval". Authors should follow the instructions for the IEEE Transactions Audio, Speech and Language Processing and indicate in the Comments to the Editor-in-Chief that the manuscript is submitted for publication in the Special Issue on Music Information Retrieval. We require a completed copyright form to be signed and faxed to 1-732-562-8905 at the time of submission. Please indicate the manuscript number on the top of the page.

Schedule:
Submission deadline: 15 December 2006
Notification of final acceptance:
15 June 2007
Final manuscript due: 1 August 2007
Tentative publication date: Late 2007

Guest Editors:
Dr. Malcolm Slaney
 Yahoo! Research Labs and Stanford CCRMA, USA
 malcolm@ieee.org
Dr. Dan Ellis
 Columbia University, USA
 dpwe@ee.columbia.edu
Dr. Mark Sandler
 Queen Mary, University of London, UK
 mark.sandler@elec.qmul.ac.uk
Dr. Masataka Goto
 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
 m.goto@aist.go.jp
Dr. Mike Goodwin
 Creative Advanced Technology Center, USA
 mgoodwin@atc.creative.com