Natural Language Processing (NLP) research is typically associated with the advancement of language technologies. However, in today's growing digital landscape, where users engage with other users, products and service providers, NLP is becoming ubiquitous due to its ability to facilitate and personalize access to digital content of any nature. One case of particular relevance is the audio entertainment industry, as language is a key component of most audio content (e.g., songs, podcasts, radio shows, audio ads, etc.) as well as user-content interactions (e.g., textual queries, spoken utterances, social media activity, etc.). In this context, we propose the Third Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio, a forum for bringing together academic and industrial scientists and stakeholders interested in exploring synergies between NLP and music/audio. We especially encourage submissions that explore the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the audio entertainment industry, i.e. research focusing on the development, customization, or innovative use of LLMs in music and spoken audio contexts.
NLP for Music and Audio Understanding
Tagging and meta-tagging
Knowledge graph construction
Information extraction
Named entity recognition and linking
Speech to text
Song and podcast segmentation
Topic modeling
Sentiment analysis
Representation learning
Bias in music and audio corpora
Audio captioning
Debiasing music entity embeddings
Evaluation and adaptation of LLMs for music and spoken audio understanding
NLP for Music and Audio Retrieval and Personalization
Conversational AI
Slot filling and intent prediction
Information retrieval
Cross-modal retrieval
Recommender systems
Ads personalization
Responsible recommendations
Fairness and transparency
NLP for Music and Audio Generation
Lyrics generation
Music generation with (Large) Language models
Spoken audio/podcast generation
Submission Deadline: July 12, 2024
Notification of Acceptance: September 2, 2024
Camera-Ready Deadline: September 27, 2024
Workshop Date: November 15, 2024