Jazz Chords Parsing with Transformers

A Data-Driven Approach to Tree-Based Music Analysis

In this article, I summarize part of my research paper “Predicting Music Hierarchies with a Graph-Based Neural Decoder” which presents a data-driven system able to parse jazz chord sequences.

This research is motivated by my frustration with Grammar-based parsing systems (which were the only option available for music data):

• The grammar-building phase requires a lot of domain knowledge
• The parser will fail in case of some unseen configurations or noisy data
• It is …

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