📰 Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio 2026 — accepted papers

Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio, held in Rabat, Morocco, March 2026 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 9 papers of it; our library holds 2 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Rabat, Morocco · 🗓 March 2026

All accepted papers (9)

The most cited first; 2 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. Read Between the Tracks: Exploring LLM-driven Intent-based Music Recommendations ↗Anna Hausberger, Petra Jósár, Markus Schedl2 citations
2. How Far Can Pretrained LLMs Go in Symbolic Music? Controlled Comparisons of Supervised and Preference-based Adaptation ↗Deepak Kumar, Emmanouil Karystinaios, Gerhard Widmer et al.1 citation
3. Beyond Musical Descriptors: Extracting Preference-Bearing Intent in Music Queries ↗Marion Baranes, Romain Hennequin, Elena V. Epure
4. From Novice to Expert: Generating Audience-Dependent Concert Moderations with RAG-LLMs ↗Kerstin Denecke
5. HumMusQA: A Human-written Music Understanding QA Benchmark DatasetBenno Weck, Pablo Puentes, Andrea Poltronieri et al.our summary
6. LabelBuddy: An Open Source Music and Audio Language Annotation Tagging Tool Using AI AssistanceIoannis Prokopiou, Ioannis Sina, Agisilaos Kounelis et al.our summary
7. Learning When to Personalize: LLM Based Playlist Generation via Query Taxonomy and Classification ↗Fedor Buzaev, Ivan Sukharev, Rinat Mullahmetov et al.
8. MIDI-PHOR: Multi-View Distillation for Music Understanding and Captioning ↗Steven Au
9. Stochastic Parrots or True Virtuosos? Digging Deeper Into the Audio-Video Understanding of AVQA Models ↗Sara Pernille Jensen, Hallvard Innset Hurum, Anna-Maria Christodoulou

📄 Papers with our summary in our library (2)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. HumMusQA: A Human-written Music Understanding QA Benchmark DatasetWorkshop on NLP for Music and AudioBenno Weck, Pablo Puentes, Andrea Poltronieri, et al.2026 · 1 citation
2. LabelBuddy: An Open Source Music and Audio Language Annotation Tagging Tool Using AI AssistanceWorkshop on NLP for Music and AudioIoannis Prokopiou, Ioannis Sina, Agisilaos Kounelis, et al.2026

🧭 Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

❓Question answering (1)🎙️Speech & spoken language (1)

📚 Fields

🎭Arts and Humanities (2)🖥️Computer Science (2)

🏛️ Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

🎓Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaCerdanyola del Vallès · Spain1 work here🎓Universitat Pompeu FabraBarcelona · Spain1 work here

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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