This list includes almost all of the papers, including book chapters and my dissertation, that have been published with my name as one of the authors. It does not include unpublished presentations. The list is in reverse chronological order.

Most of the University of Massachusetts Computer Science Technical Reports are available at the CIIR publication page.

• Byrd, Donald, & Isaacson, Eric (2016). A Music Representation Requirement Specification for Academia. Based on our 2003 paper of the same title, with many additions to the table as well as updates to the body. You can get the full paper (.doc, 656K).

• Byrd, Donald (2016). More Counterexamples In Conventional Music Notation. You can get the full list.

• Byrd, Donald, & Simonsen, Jakob Grue (2015). Towards a Standard Testbed for Optical Music Recognition: Definitions, Metrics, and Page Images. Journal of New Music Research 44, 3, pp. 169–195. You can get a preliminary but near-final version (PDF, 6 MB).

• Byrd, Donald (2014). Progress in Computing Pi, 250 BCE to the Present: From Polygons to Elliptic Integrals. Submitted for publication.

• Byrd, Donald (2012). Studying Music is Difficult and Important: Challenges of Music Knowledge Representation. A revised and expanded version of my 2009 paper of the same title. You can get the full paper (PDF, 168K).

• Byrd, Donald (2012). Infinite Bottles of Beer: Mathematical Concepts with Epsilon Pain, Or: A Cantorial Approach to Cantorian Arithmetic and Other Mathematical Melodies. A revised and expanded version of my Math Horizons article of a similar title. You can get the full paper (.pdf, 520K).

• Byrd, Donald (2010). Infinite Bottles of Beer: A cantorial approach to Cantorian arithmetic and other mathematical melodies. Math Horizons, September 2010, pp. 16–17.

• Byrd, Donald, Guerin, William, Schindele, Megan, & Knopke, Ian (2010). OMR Evaluation and Prospects for Improved OMR via Multiple Recognizers. Submitted for publication. You can get the full paper (.doc, 420K) . (An expanded version with supporting documents is available on request.)

• Downie, J. Stephen, Byrd, Donald, & Crawford, Tim (2009). Ten Years of ISMIR: Reflections On Challenges and Opportunities. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2009), Kobe, Japan.

• Nichols, Eric, & Byrd, Donald (2009). The Future Of Music IR: How Do You Know When A Problem Is Solved? Read at ISMIR 2009 Special Session on the Future of Music Information Retrieval.

• Byrd, Donald (2009). Studying Music is Difficult and Important: Challenges of Music Knowledge Representation. In Proceedings of Dagstuhl Seminar on Knowledge Representation for Intelligent Music Processing, Leibniz-Center for Informatics, Wadern, Germany. You can get the full paper (PDF). see above for a revised version.

• Byrd, Donald (2009). Written Vs. Sounding Pitch. MLA Notes 66,1, September 2009. Based on my 2005 paper of the same title, much expanded and with many musical examples added. You can get the full paper (PDF, 1250K).

• Byrd, Donald (2008). A Similarity Scale for Content-Based Music IR. Unpublished.

• Knopke, Ian, & Byrd, Donald (2007). Towards MusicDiff: A Foundation for Improved Optical Music Recognition using Multiple Recognizers. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2007), Vienna, Austria, pp. 123–126. You can get the full paper (PDF, 88K).

• Byrd, Donald, & Schindele, Megan (2006). Prospects for Improving Optical Music Recognition with Multiple Recognizers. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2006), Victoria, Canada, pp. 41–46. You can get an expanded version and supporting documents.
• Dunn, Jon; Byrd, Donald; Notess, Mark; Riley, Jenn; & Scherle, Ryan (2006). Variations2: Retrieving and Using Music in an Academic Setting. Communications of the ACM 49,8, pp. 53–59.
• Byrd, Donald (2005). Written Vs. Sounding Pitch. Available at http://variations2.indiana.edu/system_design.html; see above for a revised version.

• Clifford, Raphael, Groult, Richard, Illiopoulos, Costas S., & Byrd, Donald (2004). Music Retrieval Algorithms for the Lead Sheet Problem. In Proceedings of Sound and Music Computing (SMC 2004), Paris, France, pp. 141–146.

• Scherle, Ryan, & Byrd, Donald (2004). The Anatomy of a Bibliographic Search System for Music. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2004), Barcelona, Spain, pp. 489–496. You can get an abstract or the full paper (PDF, 105K).

• Byrd, Donald, & Isaacson, Eric (2003). A Music Representation Requirement Specification for Academia. Computer Music Journal 27, no. 4, pp. 43–57; see above for a revised version.

• Byrd, Donald, & Isaacson, Eric (2003). Music Representation in a Digital Music Library. In Proceedings of Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2003), pp. 234–236. You can get the full paper (PDF, 140K).

• Byrd, Donald, & Fingerhut, Michael (2002). The History of ISMIR: A Short Happy Tale. D-Lib Magazine 8(11).

• Pickens, J., Bello, J.P., Crawford, T., Dovey, M., Monti, G., Sandler, M.B., & Byrd, D. (2002). Polyphonic Score Retrieval Using Polyphonic Audio Queries: A Harmonic Modeling Approach. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2002), Paris, France, pp. 140–149.

• Byrd, Donald, & Crawford, Tim (2002). Problems of Music Information Retrieval in the Real World. Information Processing and Management 38, pp. 249–272. Also available as Technical Report IR-214, Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst. You can get an abstract or the full paper (PDF, 296K).

• Byrd, Donald (2001). Music-Notation Searching and Digital Libraries. In Proceedings of Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2001), pp. 239–246. Also available as Technical Report IR-220, Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst. You can get an abstract or the full paper (PDF, 232K).

• Allan, J., Leuski, A., Swan, R., & Byrd, D. (2001). Evaluating Combinations of Ranked Lists and Visualizations of Inter-document Similarity. Information Processing and Management 37, pp. 435–458; also available as Technical Report IR-204, Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst.

• Byrd, Donald & Podorozhny, Rodion (2000). Adding Boolean-quality control to best-match searching via an improved user interface. Technical Report IR-210, Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst.

• Byrd, Donald (1999). A Scrollbar-based Visualization for Document Navigation. In Proceedings of ACM Digital Libraries 99, pp. 122–129. Also available as Technical Report IR-163, Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst. You can get an abstract or the full paper (PDF, 793K).

• Shneiderman, B., Byrd, D., & Croft, W.B. (1998, April). Sorting out Searching: A User-Interface Framework for Text Searches. Communications of the ACM 41, no. 4. A revised and shortened version of our 1997 "Clarifying Search" paper. You can get an abstract.

• Swan, R., Allan, J., & Byrd, D. (1998). Evaluating a Visual Information Retrieval Interface: AspInquery at TREC-6. Presented at Workshop on Information Exploration at CHI 98 conference, April 17–18, 1998, http://www.fxpal.com/CHI98IE/submissions/index.htm ; also available as Technical Report IR-134, Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst.

• Swan, R., Allan, J., & Byrd, D. (1998). Evaluating a Task-specific Information Retrieval Interface. Technical Report IR-133, Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst.

• Allan, J., Callan, J., Croft, W.B., Ballesteros, L., Byrd, D., Swan, R., & Xu, J. (1997). INQUERY Does Battle with TREC-6. In The Sixth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-6). NIST Special Publication.

• Byrd, D., Swan, R., & Allan, J. (1997). TREC-6 Interactive Track Report. Technical Report IR-117, Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst.

• Crawford, T., Byrd, D., & Gibson, J. (1997). The Nightingale Notelist. In E. Selfridge-Field, ed., Beyond MIDI: The handbook of musical codes, pp. 293–318. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

• Shneiderman, B., Byrd, D., & Croft, W.B. (1997, January). Clarifying Search: A User-Interface Framework for Text Searches. D-Lib Magazine; available at http://www.dlib.org . Also available as Technical Report IR-107, Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst. You can get the full paper (PDF, 340K).

• Byrd, Donald (1994). Music-Notation Software and Intelligence. Computer Music Journal 18, no. 1, pp. 17–20. You can get a scanned-in version of the full paper (PDF, 268K), or the full text, unformatted and minus figures.

• Byrd, Donald (1992). Foreword: Notation Software. In C. Yavelow, The Macworld Music and Sound Bible. San Mateo, California: IDG Books.

• Byrd, Donald, Starr, Mark, et al (1992). The Musical Notation Quiz. In Computing in Musicology 8, pp. 183–190.

• Byrd, Donald (1986). User Interfaces in Music Notation Systems. In Proceedings of the 1986 International Computer Music Conference, Royal Conservatory, The Hague.

• Byrd, Donald & Yavelow, Christopher (1986). The Kurzweil 250 Digital Synthesizer. Computer Music Journal 10, no. 1, pp. 64–86.

• Byrd, Donald (1984). Music Notation by Computer (doctoral dissertation, Computer Science Department, Indiana University). Available from UMI ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan (order no. 8506091), or npc Imaging. You can get an abstract or a scanned-in version of the full dissertation (PDF, 8600K).

• Byrd, Donald (1981, September). Science Fiction's Intelligent Computers. Byte 6, pp. 200–214.

• Byrd, Donald (1980). Human Engineering in a Machine-Independent Music Notation System. Proceedings of the 1980 International Computer Music Conference, Queens College.

• Wittlich, Gary, Byrd, Donald, & Nerheim, Rosalee (1978). A System for Interactive Encoding of Music Scores Under Computer Control. Computers and the Humanities 12, pp. 309–319.

• Byrd, Donald (1977). An Integrated Computer Music Software System. Computer Music Journal 1,2, pp. 55–60.

• Byrd, Donald (1974). A System for Music Printing by Computer. Computers and the Humanities 8, pp. 161–172.

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