Friday, July 28, 2006

Ten Thousand Statistically Grammar-Average Fake Band Names

Ten Thousand Statistically Grammar-Average Fake Band Names: "When working on the paper 'The Quest for Ground Truth in Musical Artist Similarity' (paper PDF link) we built MusicSeer to collect human evaluation of artist similarity. We expected a lot of responses but needed a way to ferret out 'bad' results-- robots, users just clicking randomly, and people that didn't know the bands presented. One idea was to pepper the list with 'red herrings' in the form of fake bandnames-- and if someone chose one, we'd ignore their responses later on. "

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