{"id":326,"date":"2018-09-24T12:56:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T12:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougturnbull.org\/?p=326"},"modified":"2020-10-23T20:02:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T20:02:22","slug":"not-running-ismir-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougturnbull.org\/index.php\/2018\/09\/24\/not-running-ismir-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Not running ISMIR in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Admittedly, I slept in this morning and missed the first oral session at 2018 International Society of Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Conference.\u00a0 This is notable because, for the past two years, I have been a program chair for the conference. This has meant that I had had to arrive early, help setup the lecture hall, meet with the session chairs, track down speakers, help setup poster boards, do sound and video checks, and put out tons of small fires. Things always ran smoothly\u00a0but that was always a small amount of\u00a0<em>ambient<\/em> stress during the week.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My role <g class=\"gr_ gr_9 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace\" id=\"9\" data-gr-id=\"9\">this <g class=\"gr_ gr_10 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace\" id=\"10\" data-gr-id=\"10\">years<\/g><\/g> is that of a society board member and conference attendee. It means that I am still deeply invested in the success of the conference but that I am not responsible for the minute-to-minute operation of the academic program. This has allowed me to sleep in, attend the helpful tutorials, have <g class=\"gr_ gr_76 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling\" id=\"76\" data-gr-id=\"76\">longer<\/g> conversations with folks at coffee breaks, be fashionably late to social events, etc. That is, the ambient stress has been replaced with a sense of flexibility and freedom.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I am doing here is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Learning more about deep learning for content-based <g class=\"gr_ gr_8 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"8\" data-gr-id=\"8\">autotagging<\/g> &amp; music similarity.<\/li><li>Exploring how deep learning can be used for playlist generation<\/li><li>Presenting a late-breaking abstract on music event recommendation<\/li><li>Running an unconference workshop session to collect feedback and generate ideas for the academic program<\/li><li>Interacting with all of my favorite friends and\u00a0researcher\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Post Conference Update: The conference was a great success in terms of growth (450 participants), innovative research ideas, and community enthusiasm.\u00a0 The organizers (<g class=\"gr_ gr_401 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"401\" data-gr-id=\"401\">Geoffory<\/g>\u00a0Peeters, Slim Essid, Gael Richard) put on a great conference with many innovations (e.g., 4-minute presentation format, industry meetup) and social events (jam session party cruise on the Seine.)\u00a0 I&#8217;m already looking forward to ISMIR 2019 in the Netherlands!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Admittedly, I slept in this morning and missed the first oral session at 2018 International Society of Music Information Retrieval[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougturnbull.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougturnbull.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougturnbull.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougturnbull.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougturnbull.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dougturnbull.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/dougturnbull.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougturnbull.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougturnbull.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougturnbull.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougturnbull.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}