Overview of MusiCLEF 2011

MusiCLEF is a novel benchmarking activity that aims at promoting the development of new methodologies for music access and retrieval on real public music collections. A major focus is given to multimodal retrieval that, in the case of music collections, can be obtained by combining content-based information, automatically extracted from music les, with contextual information, provided by users via tags, comments, or reviews. Moreover, MusiCLEF aims at maintaining a tight connection with real application scenarios, focusing on issues on music access and retrieval that are faced by professional users. To this end, the benchmark activity of the rst year of MusiCLEF focused on two main tasks: automatic categorization of music to be used as soundtrack of TV shows and automatic identication of the digitized material of a music digital library