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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

There’s this outgrowth of music retrieval types that love to do summarization — they take in a four minute pop song and find the “optimal” summary– maybe it’s 10 seconds long. Of course, with nothing but the signal to lead you, all the summarization algorithms read like pulpy redactions from a Pierce/Shannon appendix: the maximal […]