Facebook Games for a Better Music Search Engine

Friday, June 5, 2009 - 13:28 in Mathematics & Economics

Electrical engineers at UC San Diego created games on Facebook in order to improve their experimental music search engine that is capable of listening to new songs and accurately labeling them with words—with no help from humans. These computer-labeled songs can then be retrieved later when someone types these same words into the cutting-edge music search engine.

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