This paper describes two sets of crowdsourcing experiments on temporal information annotation conducted on two languages, i.e., English and Italian. The first experiment, launched on the CrowdFlower platform, was aimed at classifying temporal relations given target entities. The second one, relying on the CrowdTruth metric, consisted in two subtasks: one devoted to the recognition of events and...

We describe the TempEval-2 task which is currently in preparation for the SemEval-2010 evaluation exercise. This task involves identifying the temporal relations between events and temporal expressions in text. Six distinct subtasks are defined, ranging from identifying temporal and event expressions, to anchoring events to temporal expressions, and ordering events relative to each other.

This study proposes a music-aided framework for affective interaction of service robots with humans. The framework consists of three systems, respectively, for perception, memory, and expression on the basis of the human brain mechanism. We propose a novel approach to identify human emotions in the perception system. The conventional approaches use speech and facial expressions as representativ...

EmotionFace is a software interface for visually displaying the self-reported emotion expressed by music. Taken in reverse, it can be viewed as a facial expression whose auditory connection or exemplar is the time synchronized, associated music. The present instantiation of the software uses a simple schematic face with eyes and mouth moving according to a parabolic model: Smiling and frowning ...

Intrinsic emotional expressions such as those communicated by faces and vocalizations have been shown to engage specific brain regions, such as the amygdala. Although music constitutes another powerful means to express emotions, the neural substrates involved in its processing remain poorly understood. In particular, it is unknown whether brain regions typically associated with processing 'biol...

Reproducing piano rolls are among the early music storage mediums, preserving fine details of a piano or organ performance on a continuous roll of paper with holes punched onto them. While early acoustic recordings suffer from poor quality sound, reproducing piano rolls benefit from the fidelity of a live piano for playback, and capture all features of a performance in what amounts to an early ...

the confrontation between iranian and western musical cultures and especially taking the idea of western orchestra is a topic that had incongruous dimensions in iranian music. therefore, this process leads up to some questions: what is the relationship between the multiplicity of musical performance and identity of iranian music? and the other question: did such a process in its different dimen...

Evaluation has been suggested to be one of the main trends in current NIME research. However, the meaning of the term for the community may not be as clear as it seems. In order to explore this issue, we have analyzed all papers and posters published in the proceedings of the NIME conference from 2012 to 2014. For each publication that explicitly mentioned the term “evaluation”, we looked for: ...

The article presents a fragment of research project devoted to studying the impact musical influence system on mental development mentally retarded children. author’s approach criterion-oriented assessment levels preschoolers’ psychomotor is applied. Three estimated children’s are used assess both actual features this and potential opportunities. ascertaining experiment made it possible reveal ...