Hierarchical Organization and Description of Music Collections at the Artist Level

Abstract. As digital music collections grow, so does the need to organizing them automatically. In this paper we present an approach to hierarchically organize music collections at the artist level. Artists are grouped according to similarity which is computed using a web search engine and standard text retrieval techniques. The groups are described by words found on the webpages using term selection techniques and domain knowledge. We compare different term selection techniques, present a simple demonstration, and discuss our findings.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ERCIMDL
• Authors: Elias Pampalk, Arthur Flexer, Gerhard Widmer
• Keywords: Digital Music Collections, ERCIMDL 2005, Music Collections, Term Selection Techniques