Emília Gómez
Biographic Data
| ID | 3585261 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emília Gómez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emília |
| FAMILY NAME | Gómez |
| SIGNATURE | GOMEZ E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4983-3989 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“ In a way, I want TikTok to tell me what I want. . . ” Users’ experience of TikTok as a televisual algorithmic flow
This article revisits Williams’s concept of flow, Firth’s notion of algorithmic flow, and Picone et al.’s concept of Small Acts of Engagement (SAOE) to examine how users experience TikTok’s algorithmic flow. SAOE are understood as low-effort, everyday acts through which users negotiate their identities and shape their digital consumption. While SAOE have been a valuable lens for understanding user agency on earlier social media platforms, we argu…
More than a fingerprint on a pebble
The pebble discovered in the San Lázaro rock-shelter (Segovia, Central Spain) is the oldest known non-utilitarian object with a fingerprint made in Europe. Its morphology and the strategic position of an ocher dot, where a dermatoglyphic image has been detected, may be evidence of symbolic behavior. This object contributes to our understanding of Neanderthals' capacity for abstraction, suggesting that it could represent one of the earliest human …
Use case cards
Despite recent efforts by the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community to move towards standardised procedures for documenting models, methods, systems or datasets, there is currently no methodology focused on use cases aligned with the risk-based approach of the European AI Act (AI Act). In this paper, we propose a new framework for the documentation of use cases that we call use case cards , based on the use case modelling included in the Unified…
Evaluation and combination of pitch estimation methods for melody extraction in symphonic classical music
The extraction of pitch information is arguably one of the most important tasks in automatic music description systems. However, previous research and evaluation datasets dealing with pitch estimation focused on relatively limited kinds of musical data. This work aims to broaden this scope by addressing symphonic western classical music recordings, focusing on pitch estimation for melody extraction. This material is characterized by a high number…
Melodic Contour and Mid-Level Global Features Applied to the Analysis of Flamenco Cantes
This work focuses on the topic of melodic characterization and similarity in a specific musical repertoire: a cappella flamenco singing, more specifically in debla and martinete styles. We propose the combination of manual and automatic description. First, we use a state-of-the-art automatic transcription method to account for general melodic similarity from music recordings. Second, we define a specific set of representative mid-level melodic fe…
Computational Ethnomusicology
Since the beginning of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) as a field, most of its models and technologies have been developed for mainstream popular music in the so-called ‘Western’ tradition. Over
Measuring Similarity between Flamenco Rhythmic Patterns
Music similarity underlies a large part of a listener's experience, as it relates to familiarity and associations between different pieces or parts. Rhythmic similarity has received scant research attention in comparison with other aspects of music similarity such as melody or harmony. Mathematical measures of rhythmic similarity have been proposed, but none of them has been compared to human judgments. We present a first study consisting of two …
Statistical Analysis of Chroma Features in Western Music Predicts Human Judgments of Tonality
Motivated by evidence that image source statistics predict the response properties of several visual perception aspects, we provide an empirical analysis of the relation between chroma statistics and human judgments of tonality. To accomplish this, a statistical analysis method based on chroma feature covariance is proposed. It makes use of a large collection of western music to build a tonal profile. The obtained profile is compared to alternati…
Discovering expressive transformation rules from saxophone jazz performances
If-then rules are one of the most expressive and intuitive knowledge representations and their application to represent musical knowledge raises particularly interesting questions. In this paper, we describe an approach to learning expressive performance rules from monophonic recordings of jazz standards by a skilled saxophonist. We have first developed a melodic transcription system which extracts a set of acoustic features from the recordings p…
More than a fingerprint on a pebble
The pebble discovered in the San Lázaro rock-shelter (Segovia, Central Spain) is the oldest known non-utilitarian object with a fingerprint made in Europe. Its morphology and the strategic position of an ocher dot, where a dermatoglyphic image has been detected, may be evidence of symbolic behavior. This object contributes to our understanding of Neanderthals' capacity for abstraction, suggesting that it could represent one of the earliest human …
Discovering expressive transformation rules from saxophone jazz performances
If-then rules are one of the most expressive and intuitive knowledge representations and their application to represent musical knowledge raises particularly interesting questions. In this paper, we describe an approach to learning expressive performance rules from monophonic recordings of jazz standards by a skilled saxophonist. We have first developed a melodic transcription system which extracts a set of acoustic features from the recordings p…
Statistical Analysis of Chroma Features in Western Music Predicts Human Judgments of Tonality
Motivated by evidence that image source statistics predict the response properties of several visual perception aspects, we provide an empirical analysis of the relation between chroma statistics and human judgments of tonality. To accomplish this, a statistical analysis method based on chroma feature covariance is proposed. It makes use of a large collection of western music to build a tonal profile. The obtained profile is compared to alternati…
Measuring Similarity between Flamenco Rhythmic Patterns
Music similarity underlies a large part of a listener's experience, as it relates to familiarity and associations between different pieces or parts. Rhythmic similarity has received scant research attention in comparison with other aspects of music similarity such as melody or harmony. Mathematical measures of rhythmic similarity have been proposed, but none of them has been compared to human judgments. We present a first study consisting of two …
Computational Ethnomusicology
Since the beginning of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) as a field, most of its models and technologies have been developed for mainstream popular music in the so-called ‘Western’ tradition. Over
Evaluation and combination of pitch estimation methods for melody extraction in symphonic classical music
The extraction of pitch information is arguably one of the most important tasks in automatic music description systems. However, previous research and evaluation datasets dealing with pitch estimation focused on relatively limited kinds of musical data. This work aims to broaden this scope by addressing symphonic western classical music recordings, focusing on pitch estimation for melody extraction. This material is characterized by a high number…
Melodic Contour and Mid-Level Global Features Applied to the Analysis of Flamenco Cantes
This work focuses on the topic of melodic characterization and similarity in a specific musical repertoire: a cappella flamenco singing, more specifically in debla and martinete styles. We propose the combination of manual and automatic description. First, we use a state-of-the-art automatic transcription method to account for general melodic similarity from music recordings. Second, we define a specific set of representative mid-level melodic fe…
Use case cards
Despite recent efforts by the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community to move towards standardised procedures for documenting models, methods, systems or datasets, there is currently no methodology focused on use cases aligned with the risk-based approach of the European AI Act (AI Act). In this paper, we propose a new framework for the documentation of use cases that we call use case cards , based on the use case modelling included in the Unified…
More than a fingerprint on a pebble
The pebble discovered in the San Lázaro rock-shelter (Segovia, Central Spain) is the oldest known non-utilitarian object with a fingerprint made in Europe. Its morphology and the strategic position of an ocher dot, where a dermatoglyphic image has been detected, may be evidence of symbolic behavior. This object contributes to our understanding of Neanderthals' capacity for abstraction, suggesting that it could represent one of the earliest human …
“ In a way, I want TikTok to tell me what I want. . . ” Users’ experience of TikTok as a televisual algorithmic flow
This article revisits Williams’s concept of flow, Firth’s notion of algorithmic flow, and Picone et al.’s concept of Small Acts of Engagement (SAOE) to examine how users experience TikTok’s algorithmic flow. SAOE are understood as low-effort, everyday acts through which users negotiate their identities and shape their digital consumption. While SAOE have been a valuable lens for understanding user agency on earlier social media platforms, we argu…
Computer Science (8 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · Music and Audio Processing (5 works) · Musical (5 works) · Music Technology and Sound Studies (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Melody (3 works) · Natural language processing (3 works) · Neuroscience and Music Perception (3 works) · Perception (3 works)