On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, John Walsh wrote:
> I notice that as soon as one starts thinking of making good
> tune-searching software, lots of other possible uses suggest themselves.
> One could use it not just for finding tunes with a given opening bar or
> two, but for comparing two tunes which are close, or (harder) which are
> distantly related.
>
> The method of searching for exact matches of sub-strings looks
> like one promising way to attack it....
Fuzzy matching is another possibility - there is a perl module that will
match strings with a specified percentage of
insertions/deletions/substitutions; which seems to offer a possibility for
coming up with a crude & nasty number. Not nice, would need severe
tweaking wrt how you judge similarity, but a suggestion.
Has anybody looked at the HUMDRUM toolkit ? I bumped into it somewhere in
a web search, a while back. Seems to offer routines for comparing
tunes/phrases, but I haven't succeeded in getting it through the compiler
yet, and am not likely to get back to it for a while.
--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem
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