Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA 2026)

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA 2026) Elena V Epure editor Sergio Oramas editor SeungHeon Doh editor Pedro Ramoneda editor Anna Kruspe editor Mohamed Sordo editor 2026-03 Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco text conference publication 979-8-89176-369-2 nlp4musa-2026-1 10.18653/v1/2026.nlp4musa-1.0 https://aclanthology.org/2026.nlp4musa-1.0/ From Novice to Expert: Generating Audience-Dependent Concert Moderations with RAG-LLMs Kerstin Denecke author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA 2026) Elena V Epure editor Sergio Oramas editor SeungHeon Doh editor Pedro Ramoneda editor Anna Kruspe editor Mohamed Sordo editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-369-2 denecke-2026-novice 10.18653/v1/2026.nlp4musa-1.1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.nlp4musa-1.1/ 2026-03 1 6 LabelBuddy: An Open Source Music and Audio Language Annotation Tagging Tool Using AI Assistance Ioannis Prokopiou author Ioannis Sina author Agisilaos Kounelis author Pantelis Vikatos author Themos Stafylakis author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA 2026) Elena V Epure editor Sergio Oramas editor SeungHeon Doh editor Pedro Ramoneda editor Anna Kruspe editor Mohamed Sordo editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-369-2 prokopiou-etal-2026-labelbuddy 10.18653/v1/2026.nlp4musa-1.2 https://aclanthology.org/2026.nlp4musa-1.2/ 2026-03 7 12 Stochastic Parrots or True Virtuosos? Digging Deeper Into the Audio-Video Understanding of AVQA Models Sara Pernille Jensen author Hallvard Innset Hurum author Anna-Maria Christodoulou author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA 2026) Elena V Epure editor Sergio Oramas editor SeungHeon Doh editor Pedro Ramoneda editor Anna Kruspe editor Mohamed Sordo editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-369-2 jensen-etal-2026-stochastic 10.18653/v1/2026.nlp4musa-1.3 https://aclanthology.org/2026.nlp4musa-1.3/ 2026-03 13 19 Beyond Musical Descriptors: Extracting Preference-Bearing Intent in Music Queries Marion Baranes author Romain Hennequin author Elena V Epure author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA 2026) Elena V Epure editor Sergio Oramas editor SeungHeon Doh editor Pedro Ramoneda editor Anna Kruspe editor Mohamed Sordo editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-369-2 baranes-etal-2026-beyond 10.18653/v1/2026.nlp4musa-1.4 https://aclanthology.org/2026.nlp4musa-1.4/ 2026-03 20 26 How Far Can Pretrained LLMs Go in Symbolic Music? Controlled Comparisons of Supervised and Preference-based Adaptation Deepak Kumar author Emmanouil Karystinaios author Gerhard Widmer author Markus Schedl author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA 2026) Elena V Epure editor Sergio Oramas editor SeungHeon Doh editor Pedro Ramoneda editor Anna Kruspe editor Mohamed Sordo editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-369-2 kumar-etal-2026-far 10.18653/v1/2026.nlp4musa-1.5 https://aclanthology.org/2026.nlp4musa-1.5/ 2026-03 27 32 MIDI-PHOR: Multi-View Distillation for Music Understanding and Captioning Steven Au author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA 2026) Elena V Epure editor Sergio Oramas editor SeungHeon Doh editor Pedro Ramoneda editor Anna Kruspe editor Mohamed Sordo editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-369-2 au-2026-midi 10.18653/v1/2026.nlp4musa-1.6 https://aclanthology.org/2026.nlp4musa-1.6/ 2026-03 33 43 Read Between the Tracks: Exploring LLM-driven Intent-based Music Recommendations Anna Hausberger author Petra Jósár author Markus Schedl author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA 2026) Elena V Epure editor Sergio Oramas editor SeungHeon Doh editor Pedro Ramoneda editor Anna Kruspe editor Mohamed Sordo editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-369-2 hausberger-etal-2026-read 10.18653/v1/2026.nlp4musa-1.7 https://aclanthology.org/2026.nlp4musa-1.7/ 2026-03 44 50 Learning When to Personalize: LLM Based Playlist Generation via Query Taxonomy and Classification Fedor Buzaev author Ivan Sukharev author Rinat Mullahmetov author Roman Bogachev author Ilya Sedunov author Oleg Pavlovich author Daria Pugacheva author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA 2026) Elena V Epure editor Sergio Oramas editor SeungHeon Doh editor Pedro Ramoneda editor Anna Kruspe editor Mohamed Sordo editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-369-2 buzaev-etal-2026-learning 10.18653/v1/2026.nlp4musa-1.8 https://aclanthology.org/2026.nlp4musa-1.8/ 2026-03 51 57 HumMusQA: A Human-written Music Understanding QA Benchmark Dataset Benno Weck author Pablo Puentes author Andrea Poltronieri author Satyajeet Prabhu author Dmitry Bogdanov author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio (NLP4MusA 2026) Elena V Epure editor Sergio Oramas editor SeungHeon Doh editor Pedro Ramoneda editor Anna Kruspe editor Mohamed Sordo editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-369-2 weck-etal-2026-hummusqa 10.18653/v1/2026.nlp4musa-1.9 https://aclanthology.org/2026.nlp4musa-1.9/ 2026-03 58 67