Every time I write about MajorMiner, people ask when I’m going to make the data publicly available. Well, I’m starting to do that by building a MIREX task around it. The task is officially called the Audio Tag Classification task and you can take a look at the details on its MIREX wiki page. As emails and conversations bounced around, it became not just a classification task, but also a retrieval task. Doug Turnbull formulated it well by breaking it down into three related tasks:
- Clip-Tag classification: determine whether each tag applies to each clip or not
- Clip retrieval: for each tag, rank the clips by their relevance
- Tag retrieval: for each clip, rank the tags by their relevance
There are only a few days left until the submission deadline, but if you want to throw something together, more submissions would be great. In case you’re wondering, the main contributors to the design of this task have been Kris West, Thierry Bertin-Mahieux, Doug Turnbull, and Greg Tsoumakas. Mert Bay is running things at IMIRSEL.