Knowledge-driven syntactic structuring: The case of multidimensional space of music information

Abstract

In this paper we study syntactic data structuring as a tool of automatic knowledge discovery. The discussion is focused on domain-nested syntactic processing where paginated music notation is the case of domain. Paginated music notation is a language describing multi dimensional concepts of domain knowledge. Syntactic structuring is based on context-free methods. We propose constructions of context-free grammars driven by concepts of multidimensional knowledge space. Furnishing grammars with attributes allows for information flow between separated knowledge concepts. The study reveals potential and strength of context-free methods in automatic knowledge discovery. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.