Music Search Localized Query Validation Task for

en-IN (Tasks 3) | Guidelines

A music search query is a string of text entered by a user to find specific music content within a music streaming platform. Your
goal is to ensure that the query provided to you is correctly classified into the query type indicated in the task.

Task 3: Query Type Verification

You will be provided with (1) a localized music search query for India, (2) a query type that has been assigned to this query, (3)
a definition of that query type, and (4) non-localized examples of that query. A localized query for India is one that includes
Indian/South Asian entities and uses India-specific patterns of English.

You will be shown a maximum of two questions:

QUESTION 1: Does the query have information in it that matches the assigned query type?

You may also be asked a second question, it may appear after answering the first:

QUESTION 2: Does the query have additional information that matches another query type not assigned

Task

To do this task well, you should:

1. Familiarize yourself with the guidelines, including the definitions of the assigned query type shown below
2. Carefully read the query and process the information contained in it.
a. For example, what are the music entities reference in the query? What is the search intent of the query?
3. Identify whether there is information in the query matches the assigned query type.
4. If you are asked Question 2, is there additional information in the query that matches another query type not assigned?
a. Remember that albums, artists, and songs are NOT additional information in the query.

Information in a Query

Depending on user’s intent, the query embodies all sorts of information. Here is a list:

● music genre
● music decades & years
● artist
● lyrics
● covers
● album names
● awards
● music vibes, e.g., moods, activities accompanied, for a specific time
● popularity
● logical operations such as negation
● external but not catalog information associated with a music piece
 ● mutual dependency between music features

Question 2 Examples
One important thing to note is that the presence of an artist, album, or song does NOT count as additional information for this
task. Consider the following examples:

● Query Type: Decades & Years, Query: 2000s music, Question 1: Yes, Question 2: No
● Query Type: Decades & Years, Query: 2000s music by ar rahman, Question 1: Yes, Question 2: No
○ The addition of an artist, A.R. Rahman, to the query does not change the answer to Question 2
● Query Type: Covers, Query: covers of Channa Mereya, Question 1: Yes, Question 2: No
● Query Type: Covers, Query: hit covers of Channa Mereya, Question 1: Yes, Question 2: Yes
○ The inclusion of hits indicates Popular.
● Query Type: Content Type, Query: songs for Christmas, Question 1: Yes, Question 2: No
● Query Type: Content Type, Query: Christian songs for Christmas, Question 1: Yes, Question 2: Yes
○ Christian acts as a genre indicator (a query asking just for Christmas music might want to return secular music as
well)

QUERY TYPE & INFORMATION CORRESPONDENCE:

There are in general four clusters of query types:

Music Feature Related:

Query Type Explanation Non-Localized Examples

["ballet pop songs", "rock by Queen"]

Genres Content from a particular musical genre

Decades & Years Content that is from a particular decade ["1990s music", "can you play 2000s blink-182 albums"]

Queries with a start year and/or end year that are not ["albums released before 2007", "ariana grande songs released in the
Start Year & End Year decades queries last 3 years","hits before 2010"]

Content that is top, trending, or popular (with both ["best albums of bts", "best-selling singles of all time", "most popular
audiences and critics). Also includes content that is not avicii", "lesser known tswift songs"]
Popular popular. You can include labels like "popular", "least
popular", "top", "hits", "best", "unknown", or similar.

Music that is from a video (e.g., movie, TV show, or ["house of cards theme song", "can you play music from titanic"]
Music from Video anime)

["most popular country songs popular on tiktok", "wendys commercial

Music from other Media Content from media that is not TV, Movie, or Anime jingles"]

["play a song that similar to tubthumping", "music that has the same
vibe as psycho killer ", "songs in the style of everything in its right
Similar Songs Songs similar to a song named in the query place"]

["albums in the style of diamonds by elton john", "similar albums to

Similar Albums Albums that are similar to an album named in the query missundaztood by p!nk", "play albums liked 25"]

["artists like benson boone", "play bands like The Grateful Dead"]
Similar Artists Artist that is similar to an artist named in the query

Queries searching by attributes of the artist, including

location, race, gender, type (whether solo or in a band). ["songs from one-hit wonders", "play new breakout artists", "bands that
Artist Attributes Aso includes descriptions such as new, emerging, are from europe"]
breakout, and one hit wonder.

Search by attributes of a piece of music, including

BPM/speed, language, instruments (when there's no ["154 bpm music", "dutch songs","fast piano songs"]
Music Attributes mention of an artist)

Queries searching by a particular credit. It could be any

instrument where there's a reference to the player, ["plays songs wiht john paul jones playing bass", "written by christina
or "Musician", "Performer", "Songwriter", "Producer", aguilera"]
Credits "Lyrics", "Vocals", "Lead Vocals", or any other credit that
can be listed on an album.

["album by karol g that won a latin grammy award", "iheartradio music

Awards Any query that is looking for content by award awards artist of the year 2023"]

Music Content Related

Query Type Explanation Non-Localized Examples

Content that has been inspired by a particular artist, ["songs that were inspired by Love Story", "artists that were inspired by
Inspired by album, song. the beatles"]

["what song is sampled in big pimpin' by jayz", "artists who heavily

Sampled from / by Queries that ask anything related to sampling of music sample aretha franklin"]

["lyrics like can’t remember how to say your name", "songs where
Lyrics Music with particular lyrics, including misheard lyrics rihanna sings 1 and two and three and four"]

Rather than full lyrics, lyrics that mention something ["songs that mention the great wall of china", "the song with shake in the
Title & Lyrics Keywords (place, person, or things) and title matches title"]

Queries that look for a particular content, including

song/album categories (acoustic, live, remix, karaoke, ["clean versions of songs", "play elton johns acoustic songs"]
Content Types etc.), music for a particular holiday, clean vs. explicit, or
intended audience (kids, family, etc.)

["songs about anxiety", "play songs about being crushed under

Songs about some particular subject; a query is "music pressure", "grief from pet loss music"]
Music Intent intent" if it can be phrased such as "songs about"

Query asks for collaboration between artists or songs that [“songs featuring bebe rexha", "sabrina carpenter christina aguilera
Collaborations & Features feature an artist. The query must mention the words of collab", "featuring jellyroll", "music where beyonce collabs with jayz"]
variations of the words collaboration and feature.

["cover of drops of jupiter", "play childish gambino covers", "covers of i

Queries looking for song covers rather than the original will survive"]
Covers artist

Queries looking for classical attributes (soprano, alto, ["albinoni's violin concertos", "boston symphony orchestra performing
tenor, bass, vibrato, screaming, falsetto) works by strauss", "classical music with trumpet and guitar"]
Classical or classical works

Queries that ask about performance at a particular ["artists who played at lollapalooza in 2019", "setlist of the beatles in
Concerts concert/event shea stadium in 1965", "play songs from the renaissance tour"]

Music for Feeling/Action/Time Types

Query Type Explanation Non-Localized Examples

["albums for a good cry", "happysong", "love songs"]

Moods Content for a particular mood or feeling.

["background music while playing board games","bbq music","dinner

Activities Music geared towards a particular activity party music to listen to with friends"]

Queries that refer to the songs for a duration, a particular ["edm to energize the evening", "music to relax and rejuvenate during a
Distance / Time time of day, or day of the week. spa day afternoon"]

Music Query Logical Types

Query Type Explanation Non-Localized Examples

["party songs not rap", "artists like abba but not from sweden","can you
play italian music thats not traditional", "songs from 1989 other than
Negation Queries that have a negation or “not” aspect shake it off"]

Queries that will return a single result for an unknown ["artist that is also known as the king of pop", "debut album by destiny’s
entity requested on the query based on an attribute of the child"]
Single Result Queries artist, song, or album

["1960s swing music", "play some big band music from the 1930s", "chill
Any query that is a mix of multiple query types. They can pop music"]
Mixed Classes contain genre, decades, similarities, or others combined.

Informational queries that do not fit neatly into other ["k-pop song that went viral for a dance craze", "songs with a cool guitar
Music Informational categories and require internet data solo in the middle"]

Recursive queries are the queries where multiple steps of

searches/question-answering are needed in a logical ["albums by the artist who won the grammy for best new artist in 2013",
sequence to return the intended items, because there are "progressive rock albums by artists who have also won a grammy in a
Recursive chain of dependencies between the entities mentioned in folk category"]
the query.