Making Explicit the Formalism Underlying Evaluation in Music Information Retrieval Research: A Look at the MIREX Automatic Mood Classification Task

摘要

We make explicit the formalism underlying evaluation in music information retrieval research. We define a "system," what it means to "analyze" one, and make clear the aims, parts, design, execution, interpretation, assumptions and limitations of its "evaluation." We apply this formalism to discuss the MIREX automatic mood classification task.