The Ursinus Weekly, October 1, 1970

Dr. William Schuyler Pettit named tenth President of Ursinus College to replace retiring D. L. Helfferich • The Helfferich years: 1958-1970https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1126/thumbnail.jp

Analysing symbolic music with probabilistic grammars

Recent developments in computational linguistics offer ways to approach the analysis of musical structure by inducing probabilistic models (in the form of grammars) over a corpus of music. These can produce idiomatic sentences from a probabilistic model of the musical language and thus offer explanations of the musical structures they model. This chapter surveys historical and current work in musical analysis using grammars, based on computational linguistic approaches. We outline the theory of probabilistic grammars and illustrate their implementation in Prolog using PRISM. Our experiments on learning the probabilities for simple grammars from pitch sequences in two kinds of symbolic musical corpora are summarized. The results support our claim that probabilistic grammars are a promising framework for computational music analysis, but also indicate that further work is required to establish their superiority over Markov models

The Ursinus Weekly, June 8, 1970

289 students graduate Ursinus today: Brooks Hays selected speaker at graduation • 1970 Honorary Degree recipients • Ursinus College class of 1970 • Focus: Bob Keehn • Departmental honorshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1162/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, April 25, 1968

Two concerts, parties to highlight Spring IF weekend, May 1-5 • Student body to honor Scott Pierce; Memorial concert held on May 1 • Large UC audience attends Mme. Agi Jambor concert • Spring festival: Capers and queen • YM-YWCA and USGA elect executive officers • 13 seniors named Chapter Scholars • Editorial • Student strike for peace • Exchange • New album poses many problems for F. Scott Pierce memorial concert: Technical feat; Album hot item • Senior English majors given comprehensive • SFARC minutes • UC students tutor in local program • The Metropolitans: The road to paradise • Evening School alumni assoc. becomes active • Philadelphia radio stations plug concert and album • S. Ross Doughty, \u2768 honored by N.D.E.A. • State Legislature honors Pancoast • Ursinus trackmen unleash onslaught, vault victory streak to seven in a row • Baseball nine streaks to early season wins • Tennis team wins first • Campus Chest Road Rallye • Greek gleanings • Letter to the editor: Senior blasts explanation of new faces policy • Committee asks for new courseshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1188/thumbnail.jp