The MTG participates to the 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2018) that takes place in Paris from September 21st to the 28th 2018. ISMIR is the world’s leading research forum on processing, searching, organizing and accessing music-related data. MTG's main contributions are the presentations of 2 papers in the main program, 1 tutorial, and 1 paper in the satellite workshop DLFM 2018. A number of more informal presentations by MTG researchers will be made at the Late-Breaking Demos Session of the conference.

The papers presented as part of the main program are:

• Eremenko, V., Demirel, E., Bozkurt, B., & Serra, X.  "Audio-aligned jazz harmony dataset for automatic chord transcription and corpus-based research".
• Pons, J., Nieto, O., Prockup, M., Schmidt, E. M., Ehmann, A. F., & Serra, X. "End-to-end Learning for Music Audio Tagging at Scale".

The tutorial is:

• X. Serra, M. Clayton, and B. Bozkurt. Computational Approaches for Analysis of Non-Western Music Traditions.

The paper on the DLFM workshop is:

• Caro Repetto, R., Pretto N., Chaachoo A., Bozkurt B., & Serra X. "An open corpus for the computational research of Arab-Andalusian music".