2nd Workshop on Music Recommendation and Discovery (WOMRAD) schedule

Sunday 23rd October 2011

• Welcome and Keynote

  by Douglas Eck

  After a brief introduction Douglas Eck will give a Keynote entitled, "Building a Scalable Music Recommender"

  At 9:00am to 10:15am, Sunday 23rd October

• Paper Session 1: Semantics and the Social Web

  - "Music Discovery with Social Networks".
  by Cedric S. Mesnage, Asma Rafiq, Simon Dixon and Romain Brixtel (long paper)

  - "Music recommendation for music learning: Hotttabs, a multimedia guitar tutor".
  by Mathieu Barthet, Amélie Anglade, Gyorgy Fazekas, Sefki Kolozali and Robert Macrae (long paper)

  - "Using Semantic Relations in Context-based Music Recommendations".
  by Ipek Tatli and Aysenur Birturk (short paper)

  - "Towards Semantic Music Information Extraction from the Web Using Rule Patterns and Supervised Learning".
  by Peter Knees and Markus Schedl (long paper)

  At 10:45am to 12:30pm, Sunday 23rd October

• Industrial Panel

  by Eric Bieschke, Justin Sinkovich, Douglas Eck, Evan Stein and Amélie Anglade

  At 2:00pm to 3:00pm, Sunday 23rd October

• Paper session 2: Group Recommendation and Learning

  - "The Importance of Services and Genre in Recommendations for Online Radio and Music Programmes".
  by Ian Knopke (short)

  - "Probabilistic Game Theoretic Algorithms for Group Recommender Systems".
  by George Popescu and Pearl Pu (short)

  - "Inferring meaning of chord sequences from lyrics".
  by Tom O'Hara (short)

  At 3:00pm to 4:00pm, Sunday 23rd October

• Open Discussion/ The Future

  At 4:15pm to 5:00pm, Sunday 23rd October