A look into the past: Analysis of trends and topics in the Sound & Music Computing Conference

Abstract

In this paper we analyze the proceedings of all the past six editions of the Sound & Music Computing Conference. The proceedings are analyzed using knowledge based “keywords to text” mapping to discover the overall conference trends. The analysis is done on the basis of number of papers, distinct authors, participation ratio for each relevant topic, interdependence of topics in terms of shared keywords and the overall popularity of keywords. The analysis was done for each conference year as well as for the overall collection of proceedings till date. The objective of the discussed work is to provide an insight over the past six years in the SMC community that was envisioned in the roadmap.