Second International Workshop on Language, Music, and Computing

1. Olga Mitrenina, Saint Petersburg State University (chair)
2. Polina Eismont, Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (vice-chair)
3. John Frederick Bailyn, SUNY at Stony Brook , USA
4. Natalia Braginskaya, Saint Petersburg State Conservatory
5. Natalia Degtyareva, Saint Petersburg State Conservatory
6. Andrey Denisov, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
7. Elena Erofeeva, Perm National Research University
8. Elena Grudeva, Cherepovets State University
9. Simon Holland, The Open University, UK
10. Olga Khomitsevitch, NTENT, Inc., USA
11. Andrej Kibrik, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow
12. Natalia Konstantinova, University of Wolverhampton, UK
13. Mikhail Kopotev, University of Helsinki, Finland
14. Sergey Krylov, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow
15. Guerino Mazzola, University of Minnesota, USA
16. Constantin Orasan, University of Wolverhampton, UK
17. Eric Reuland, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
18. Martin Rohrmeier, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
19. Rafael Salinas, Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, Spain
20. Dmitry Sitchinava, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow
21. Akira Takaoka, Tamagawa University, Japan
22. Daniel Junqueira Tarquinio, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil
23. Remi van Trijp, Sony CSL, Paris, France
24. Partick Zuk, University of Durham, UK

The Workshop was opened with the speeches by the SUAI Rector Yulia Antokhina, Vice-Rector for Research of the State Conservatory Natalia Braginskaya, Vice-Rector for International Affairs Konstantin Losev, Prof. Sabine Iatridou of MIT (USA).

This year the Workshop is attended by experts, researchers and developers from over 20 countries – Austria, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, India, Japan, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, UK, USA etc.

The presentations and talks are made by representatives of MIT (USA), Touro College (USA), California State University San Marcos (USA), University of Music, Karlsruhe (Germany), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain),University of Kent (UK), University of Zagreb (Croatia), University of Nice (France), Istanbul Technical University (Turkey), Université de Genève (Switzerland) etc.

The Workshop discusses:

1. The problems of language and music acquisition; the influence of music skills on language acquisition and language processing; the influence of linguistic skills on music acquisition; the relationship between music and language training.
2. The linguistic and music knowledge, their structure and functioning; the explicit and the implicit knowledge of music and language; the similarities and the differences in understanding of music and language.
3. The automatic classification of linguistic and music knowledge; formal models of linguistic and music knowledge; musical information retrieval vs. linguistic information retrieval.

Special attention is paid to formal representation of language and music, structure of linguistic and music corpora. Selected revised (double-blind review) papers will be published in the Springer’s Communications in Computer and Information Science series and some selected revised papers in Russian will be published in a special issue of online scientific journal “Philosophy and Humanities in Information Society” (included into Russian Science Citation Index).

Selected revised (double-blind review) papers will be published in the Springer’s Communications in Computer and Information Science series and some selected revised papers in Russian will be published in a special issue of online scientific journal “Philosophy and Humanities in Information Society” (included into Russian Science Citation Index).

Dear colleagues,
We kindly invite you to contribute your paper to LMAC-2017 volume that is to be published in Springer’s Communications in Computer and Information Science. All required information may be downloaded here. Submission deadline – June, 07 2017. All submitted papers will be double-blind reviewed. We kindly ask you to check carefully your paper before submitting for it corresponding with all the requirements.

Social program

• A guided tour of St.Petersburg
• Concert of classical music
• Conference dinner