Research projects

• CompMusic: Computational models for the discovery of the World's Music. Post-doc researcher (2011-present).
  
• Pharos: Platform for searcHing of Audiovisual Resources across Online Spaces. Technical responsible (2009).
  

Publications

Journals

• Sordo, M., Gouyon F., Sarmento L., & Celma Ò, Serra, X. (2013). Inferring Semantic Facets of a Music Folksonomy with Wikipedia. Journal of New Music Research.
• Domingues, M. A., Gouyon F., Jorge A. M., Leal J. P., Vinagre J., Lemos L., & Sordo M. (2013). Combining Usage and Content in an Online Recommendation System for Music in the Long-Tail. International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval, Special Issue on Hybrid Music Information Retrieval.
  
• Marques, G., Langlois T., Gouyon F., Lopes M., & Sordo M. (2011). Short-term feature space and Music Genre Classfication. Journal of New Music Research. 40(2), 127-137.

Book chapters

• Markus Schedl, Mohamed Sordo, Noam Koenigstein, Udi Weinsberg (2014). Mining User-Generated Content for Music Information Retrieval. In Marie-Francine Moens, Juanzi Li, Tat-Seng Chua (eds.), Mining User Generated Content. CRC Press.
• Nadine Kroher, Amin Chaachoo, José-Miguel Díaz-Báñez, Emilia Gómez, Francisco Gómez-Martín, Joaquín Mora and Mohamed Sordo (In Press). Computational ethnomusicology: a study of flamenco and Arab-Andalusian vocal music. Springer Handbook for Systematic Musicology.
  

Peer-reviewed Conferences and Workshops

• Sordo, M., Ogihara, M., & Wurty, S. (2015). Analysis of the Evolution of Research Groups and Topics in the ISMIR Conference. In Proceedings of the 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Malaga, Spain.

• Oramas, S., Sordo, M., & Espinosa-Anke, L. (2015). A Semantic-based Approach for Artist Similarity. In Proceedings of the 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Malaga, Spain.
  
• Sordo, M., Oramas, S., & Espinosa-Anke, L. (2015). Extracting Relations from Unstructured Text Sources for Music Recommendation. In 20th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (pp. 661-666), Passau, Germany.

• Oramas, S., Sordo, M., & Espinosa-Anke, L. (2015). A Rule-Based Approach to Extracting Relations from Music Tidbits. In 2nd Workshop on Knowledge Extraction from Text, Proceedings of the International World Wide Web Conference (pp. 661-666), Florence, Italy.
  
• Kroher, N., Gómez E., Sordo M., Gómez-Martín F., Díaz-Báñez J. - M., Mora J., et al. (2014). Computational ethnomusicology: a study of flamenco and Arab-Andalusian vocal music. 4th International Workshop On Folk Music Analysis, Istanbul, Turkey.
  
• Porter, A., Sordo M., & Serra X. (2013). Dunya: A System for Browsing Audio Music Collections Exploiting Cultural Context. Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Curitiba, Brazil.
  
• Sordo, M., Serrà, J., Koduri, G. K. & Serra, X (2012). Extracting Semantic Information from an Online Carnatic Music Forum. Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Porto, Portugal.
• Sordo, M., Koduri, G. K., Şentürk, S., Gulati S. & Serra, X (2012). A Musically Aware System for Browsing and Interacting with Audio Music Collections. Proceedings of the 2nd CompMusic Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey.
  
• Sordo, M., Serrà, J., Koduri, G. K. & Serra, X (2012). A Method for Extracting Semantic Information from on-line Art Music Discussion Forums. Proceedings of the 2nd CompMusic Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey.
  
• Yang, Y., Bogdanov. D., Herrera P. & Sordo M.  (2012).  Music Retagging Using Label Propagation and Robust Principal Component Analysis. 4th International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research,  ACM WWW, 2012, Lyon, France.
  
• Domingues, M. A., Gouyon F., Jorge A. M., Leal J. P., Vinagre J., Lemos L. & Sordo M. (2012).  Combining Usage and Content in an Online Music Recommendation System for Music in the Long-Tail. 4th International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research, ACM WWW, 2012, Lyon, France. 
  
• Sordo, M., Gouyon F., & Sarmento L. (2010). A Method for Obtaining Semantic Facets of Music Tags. 1st Workshop On Music Recommendation And Discovery (WOMRAD), ACM RecSys, 2010, Barcelona, Spain.
  
• Marques, G., Lopes M., Sordo M., Langlois T., & Gouyon F. (2010). Additional Evidence That Common Low-level Features Of Individual Audio Frames Are Not Representative Of Music Genre. 7th Sound and Music Computing Conference, Barcelona, Spain.
• Herrera, P., Resa Z., & Sordo M. (2010). Rocking around the clock eight days a week: an exploration of temporal patterns of music listening. 1st Workshop On Music Recommendation And Discovery (WOMRAD), ACM RecSys, Barcelona, Spain.
• Bischoff, K., Firan C., Paiu R., Nejdl W., Laurier C., & Sordo M. (2009). Music Mood and Theme Classification a Hybrid Approach. Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Kobe, Japan.
• Laurier, C., Sordo M., Serrà J., & Herrera P. (2009). Music Mood Representations from Social Tags. Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR). 381-386, Kobe, Japan.
• Serrà, J., Zanin M., Laurier C., & Sordo M. (2009). Unsupervised detection of cover song sets: accuracy improvement and original identification. Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) , Kobe, Japan, 225-230.

• Martínez, E., Celma Ò., Sordo M., De Jong B., & Serra X. (2009). Extending the folksonomies of freesound.org using content-based audio analysis. 6th Sound and Music Computing Conference, Porto, Portugal.
• Sordo, M., Celma Ò., Blech M., & Guaus E. (2008). The Quest for Musical Genres: Do the Experts and the Wisdom of Crowds Agree?. 9th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• Sordo, M., Laurier C., & Celma Ò. (2007). Annotating Music Collections How content-based similarity helps to propagate labels. 8th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Vienna, Austria.

(NEW) Tutorials: 

• Sordo, M. and Coviello, E. (2013). Music Autotagging. Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Curitiba, Brazil.

Other contribution to Conferences

• Sordo, M., Celma Ò., & Bogdanov D. (2011). Audio Tag Classification using Weighted-Vote Nearest Neighbor Classification. Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) extended abstract.
• Sordo, M., Celma Ò., & Laurier C. (2009). QueryBag: Using Different Sources For Querying Large Music Collections. Conference of the International Society for Music Information Research (ISMIR), Demo session.
• Laurier, C., Sordo M., Bozzon A., Brambilla M., & Fraternali P. (2009). Pharos: An Audiovisual Search Platform using Music Information Retrieval Techniques. Conference of the International Society for Music Information Research (ISMIR), Demo session.
• Laurier, C., Sordo M., & Herrera P. (2009). Mood Cloud 2.0: Music Mood Browsing based on Social Networks. Conference of the International Society for Music Information Research (ISMIR).

Theses

• Sordo, M. Semantic Annotation of Music Collections: A Computational Approach. PhD thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2012.
  
• Sordo, M. Semi-automatic Annotation of Music Collections. Master's thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2007.
• Sordo, M. [ES] Sistema de compilación y testeo automatizado, distribuido y multiplataforma. Informatics Engineering dissertation, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2006.

Scientific services

Journal reviews:

• Artificial Intelligence Journal
• ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
  
• Springer Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications
• Springer International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval (MMIR)
  
• Open Journal of Information Systems (OJIS)
  

Conference and Workshop reviews:

• ISMIR: International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (2009-2013)
  
• SMC: Sound and Music Computing Conference (2010, 2011, 2012)
  
• WOMRAD: International Workshop on Music Recommendation and Discovery (2010) 
  
• AdMIRe: International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research (2011, 2012)
  
• INFLA-FMA: Interdisciplinary Conference in Flamenco Research - International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis (2012)

Program Committee:

• DLfM: International Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop (2014)
• WOMRAD: International Workshop on Music Recommendation and Discovery (2010)
  
• AdMIRe: International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research (2011, 2012)
• F(MIR): International Workshop on the Future of Music Information Retrieval (2010, 2011) 

Organization of conferences, workshops and events:

• ISMIR: International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference. Late-break/Demos Chair (2013)
• SMC: Sound and Music Computing Conference. Organization Committee (2010)
  
• Music Hack Day (Barcelona, Spain). Co-Organizer (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
  

Research interests

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