This commentary offers a review of Videira and Rosa's attempt to construct and validate an online corpus of fado transcriptions. While I support their application of music information retrieval (MIR) tools to diverse musical repertoires, I fear that a lack of clarity in their goals leads them to fall into the trap of finding "solutions in search of a problem" that is common in computational ethnomusicology. I highlight ways in which I believe they could improve future work on this project, including: 1) more interdisciplinary collaboration, 2) more clarity in their goals, and 3) the use of corpora and tools that are more suitable for comparing the symbolic data contained in their database of musical transcriptions.

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“寻找问题的解决方案”：关于Videira和Rosa的评论（2017）

这篇评论评论了维迪拉（Videira）和罗莎（Rosa）构建并验证在线法多语转录语料库的尝试。虽然我支持他们将音乐信息检索（MIR）工具应用到各种音乐曲目中，但我担心他们的目标缺乏明确性会导致他们陷入寻找“计算中的问题解决方案”的陷阱，而这在计算领域是很常见的民族音乐学。我重点介绍了我认为他们可以改善此项目未来工作的方式，包括：1）跨学科合作，2）他们的目标更加清晰，3）使用更适合比较符号数据的语料库和工具包含在他们的音乐转录数据库中。