4.0834 Ns: Musical Knowledge; Academic Computing (2/76)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Sun, 16 Dec 90 16:13:33 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0834. Sunday, 16 Dec 1990.
(1) From: "NANCY M. IDE (914) 437 5988" <IDE@VASSAR> (56 lines)
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 90 10:20 EST
Subject: Representing Musical Knowledge
(2) From: Tzvee Zahavy <MAIC@VM1.SPCS.UMN.EDU> (20 lines)
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 90 22:42:01 EST
Subject: Demise of Academic Computing
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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 90 10:20 EST (22 lines)
From: "NANCY M. IDE (914) 437 5988" <IDE@VASSAR>
Subject:
"Acquisition et Representation de Connaissances en Musique"
Ph.D. thesis in Theoretical Computer Science, by Bernard Bel.
Defended at Aix-Marseille III University on 28 November 1990
Jury: Jean-Paul ALLOUCHE, Jean-Claude BERTRAND, Eugene CHOURAQUI, Alain
GUENOCHE, Otto LASKE, Jean-Claude RISSET, Bernard VECCHIONE.
Text in French (208 pages)
English Abstract:
This study deals with computer representations of musical knowledge
based on two real-scale experiments. The first experiment focusses on
knowledge acquisition in ethnography (Kippen-Bel's project on North
Indian drumming): an expert (the musician), an analyst (the
musicologist), and a machine interact in a learning situation.
Improvisation schemata through which musicians express their musical
ideas are identified and formalized with production rules in a formalism
derived from generative grammars and pattern languages. A deterministic
algorithm is introduced for assessing the membership of arbitrary
strings to the langage defined by a given (context- sensitive) grammar.
A technique for the inductive inference of regular languages is
presented, enabling automatic knowledge acquisition of syntactic and
lexical knowledge.
The second experiment is part of the design of a computer environment
for musical composition ("Bol Processor BP2"). Here the specific
problem centres on time representation in a discrete structure of "time
objects", and the more general problem on the synchronization of
parallel processes. A method is outlined for determining a structure
without complete data on the synchronization of its objects. The
concept of "sound object" is then formally introduced. An efficient
algorithm is proposed for the time-setting of objects in a structure,
given the constraints arising from their metric and topological
properties.
Keywords: formal languages, membership test, grammatical inference,
synchronization, time representation.
Orders should be sent to:
The Librarian, Groupe Representation et Traitement des
Connaissances (GRTC) Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique (CNRS) 31 chemin Joseph Aiguier, 13402 Marseille
Cedex 9 (France)
...along with an International Money Order (or UNESCO
Coupons) for the amount of 180 French Francs in the name of
"Groupe Representation et Traitement des Connaissances".
Further information: bel@frmop11.bitnet
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From: Tzvee Zahavy <MAIC@VM1.SPCS.UMN.EDU>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 90 22:42:01 EST
Subject: Demise of Academic Computing
I just received the following note:
Dear Subscriber,
Thank you for your subscription to Academic Computing.
Unfortunately we have had to make the decision to terminate
publication. We have not and will not be charging your credit
card for the amount of the subscription. Your support is
genuinely appreciated. -Academic Computing.
This is a loss. Is there any hope of a replacement magazine?
For all the pros and cons it still represented a factor in the
the equation.
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Demise of Academic Computing