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International Society for Music Information Retrieval

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Research organisation in music data

The International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) is an international forum for research on the organization of music-related data. It started as an informal group steered by an ad hoc committee in 2000 which established a yearly symposium - whence "ISMIR", which meant International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval. It was turned into a conference in 2002 while retaining the acronym.2 It is headquartered in Canada.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

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The International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) is an international forum for research on the organization of music-related data. It started as an informal group steered by an ad hoc committee in 2000 which established a yearly symposium - whence "ISMIR", which meant International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval. It was turned into a conference in 2002 while retaining the acronym. ISMIR was incorporated in Canada on July 4, 2008.2

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The following list gives an overview of the main research areas and topics that are within the scope of

Music Information Retrieval.

MIR data and fundamentals

music signal processing

symbolic music processing

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metadata, linked data and semantic web

social tags and user generated data

natural language processing, text and web mining

multi-modal approaches to MIR

Methodology

methodological issues and philosophical foundations

evaluation methodology

corpus creation

legal, social and ethical issues

Domain knowledge

representation of musical knowledge and meaning

music perception and cognition

computational music theory

computational musicology and ethnomusicology

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

Music processing

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

Application

user behavior and modelling

user interfaces and interaction

digital libraries and archives

music retrieval systems

music recommendation and playlist generation

music and health, well-being and therapy

music training and education

MIR applications in music composition, performance and production

music and gaming

MIR in business and marketing

From Wikipedia’s article on International Society for Music Information Retrieval, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

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