October
2000
CIIR organizes ISMIR 2000: 1st International Symposium on Music IR, held in Plymouth, MA. Donald Byrd; Conf. Chair; Bruce Croft – organizing committee. CIIR is leading research efforts in that area: first to publish papers on the application of statistical language modeling approaches to music retrieval.
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