@article{Downie_2013, title={Infometrics and Music Information Retrieval: An Infometric Examination of a Folksong Database}, url={https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ojs.cais-acsi.ca/index.php/cais-asci/article/view/424}, DOI={10.29173/cais424}, abstractNote={<span>This study examined the informetric properties of intervallic n-grams as derived from a database of 9354 folksongs. The informetric properties of the melodies were compared and contrasted to those of traditional text. Understanding these similarities/dissimilarities can play a vital role in the creation of a successful Music Information Retrieval (MIR) system.</span>}, journal={Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l’ACSI}, author={Downie, Stephen J.}, year={2013}, month={Oct.} }