Bibliography of Sources on Dena’ina and Cook Inlet Anthropology Through 2016

This version 4.3 will be the final version for this bibliography, a project that was begun in 1993 by Greg Dixon. We have intentionally excluded all potential references for the year 2017. This version is about 29 pages longer and has about 211 entries added since the previous version 3.1 of 2012. Aaron Leggett has added over fifty sources many being rare items from newpapers and magazines. Also many corrections and additions were made to entries in earlier versions.I wish to thank Kenaitze Indian Tribe and the “Dena’ina Language Revitalization Project” for their support for several projects during 2017-2018, including this Vers. 4.3. Previous versions have had partial support from "Dena'ina Archiving, Training and Access" project (NSF-OPP 0326805, 2004) and from Lake Clark National Park. I thank Katherine Arndt of Alaska & Polar Regions at UAF for her careful proofreading

Criminal Minded? : Mixtape DJs, The Piracy Paradox, and Lessons for the Recording Industry

For at least the past three years, leading American fashion designers have lobbied for passage of copyright-like protection for the design aspects of their apparel creations. For at least as long, the recorded music industry has been engaged in an aggressive campaign to enforce its copyrights in recorded music against a number of technology-enabled and/or culturally sympathetic alleged infringers, including twelve year-olds and grandmothers. Although the record labels already have protection under the copyright law while the fashion houses seek it, they have at least one thing in common: some portion of the piracy that they seek to eradicate is more valuable to them than they publicly let on. In their recent article The Piracy Paradox: Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design, Kal Raustiala and Chris Sprigman explore the low-IP equilibrium of the fashion design industry, as well as the unexpected value created by a low-protection regime. One might ask whether there is anything wrong with chilling an unlawful activity such as large-scale copyright infringement. The article argues that there is something wrong with such a result, but that the owners of the copyright in the recordings either fail to appreciate the problem or fail to account for the problem in executing their enforcement strategy. Hip-hop mixtape DJs are engaged in productive infringement – infringing activity or improper appropriation that adds value to the infringed asset, rather than leading to losses for the copyright owner. Dealing with such infringement requires an approach different from typical recording industry tactics. This article argues that, in order to preserve and enhance the value of their own assets, the record labels should practice strategic forbearance

REFINING MUSIC SIGNAL TO LYRIC TEXT SYNCHRONIZATION FROM LINE-LEVEL TO SYLLABLE-LEVEL BY CONSTRAINING DYNAMIC TIME WARPING SEARCH

Master'sMASTER OF SCIENC

Generative Disco: Text-to-Video Generation for Music Visualization

Visuals are a core part of our experience of music, owing to the way they can amplify the emotions and messages conveyed through the music. However, creating music visualization is a complex, time-consuming, and resource-intensive process. We introduce Generative Disco, a generative AI system that helps generate music visualizations with large language models and text-to-image models. Users select intervals of music to visualize and then parameterize that visualization by defining start and end prompts. These prompts are warped between and generated according to the beat of the music for audioreactive video. We introduce design patterns for improving generated videos: "transitions", which express shifts in color, time, subject, or style, and "holds", which encourage visual emphasis and consistency. A study with professionals showed that the system was enjoyable, easy to explore, and highly expressive. We conclude on use cases of Generative Disco for professionals and how AI-generated content is changing the landscape of creative work

Multiple Media Correlation: Theory and Applications

This thesis introduces multiple media correlation, a new technology for the automatic alignment of multiple media objects such as text, audio, and video. This research began with the question: what can be learned when multiple multimedia components are analyzed simultaneously? Most ongoing research in computational multimedia has focused on queries, indexing, and retrieval within a single media type. Video is compressed and searched independently of audio, text is indexed without regard to temporal relationships it may have to other media data. Multiple media correlation provides a framework for locating and exploiting correlations between multiple, potentially heterogeneous, media streams. The goal is computed synchronization, the determination of temporal and spatial alignments that optimize a correlation function and indicate commonality and synchronization between media objects. The model also provides a basis for comparison of media in unrelated domains. There are many real-world applications for this technology, including speaker localization, musical score alignment, and degraded media realignment. Two applications, text-to-speech alignment and parallel text alignment, are described in detail with experimental validation. Text-to-speech alignment computes the alignment between a textual transcript and speech-based audio. The presented solutions are effective for a wide variety of content and are useful not only for retrieval of content, but in support of automatic captioning of movies and video. Parallel text alignment provides a tool for the comparison of alternative translations of the same document that is particularly useful to the classics scholar interested in comparing translation techniques or styles. The results presented in this thesis include (a) new media models more useful in analysis applications, (b) a theoretical model for multiple media correlation, (c) two practical application solutions that have wide-spread applicability, and (d) Xtrieve, a multimedia database retrieval system that demonstrates this new technology and demonstrates application of multiple media correlation to information retrieval. This thesis demonstrates that computed alignment of media objects is practical and can provide immediate solutions to many information retrieval and content presentation problems. It also introduces a new area for research in media data analysis

Symbolic music generation conditioned on continuous-valued emotions

In this paper we present a new approach for the generation of multi-instrument symbolic music driven by musical emotion. The principal novelty of our approach centres on conditioning a state-of-the-art transformer based on continuous-valued valence and arousal labels. In addition, we provide a new large-scale dataset of symbolic music paired with emotion labels in terms of valence and arousal. We evaluate our approach in a quantitative manner in two ways, first by measuring its note prediction accuracy, and second via a regression task in the valence-arousal plane. Our results demonstrate that our proposed approaches outperform conditioning using control tokens which is representative of the current state of the art.‘la Caixa’’ Foundation under Grant 100010434 and Grant LCF/BQ/DI19/1173003 - FCT—Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., through the Project MERGE through the National Funds (PIDDAC) through the Portuguese State Budget under Grant PTDC/CCI-COM/3171/2021 - European Social Fund through the Regional Operational Program Centro 2020 Project CISUC under Grant UID/CEC/00326/2020info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Understanding listening assessment in a Colombian EFL context

Even though listening research has come to the fore; from the cognitive, affective, and behavioral perspectives, there is still a lack of understanding of what indeed happens when assessing listening inside the classroom. Examining how listening is assessed and the influence of said practices on learners could be beneficial for the academic community. In this study, I aimed at analyzing the characteristics of the listening assessment used in B1 level classes at a private language institution. To do so, a total of fourteen tasks were analyzed. These tasks come from six tests, from the course curriculum testing package (CCTP) and from an external testing package (ETP). Three aspects were identified: the type of knowledge targeted in each listening task, the forms of listening assessment and the type of communicative listening activities students, as listeners, are exposed to in each test from the CCTP and the ETP. The findings indicate: a) CCTP and ETP assess different types of listening knowledge, b) the most recurrent type of knowledge assessed in the CCTP is the phonological knowledge while ETP focused on integrating not only the phonological but also the lexical, pragmatic and general knowledge, c) there is a lack of variety in the forms of listening assessment used in CCTP: 80% of the listening tasks in the tests are dictation tasks in audio media and recordings assessing mostly phonological knowledge. This study concluded that the inclusion of an external examination to the course curriculum examination does not seem to align to the holistic view of listening development proposed by the course curriculum. The results could inform curricular alignment and listening assessment literacy decisions for EFL teachers in the institution.MaestríaMagister en la Enseñanza del Ingle