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Interactive Improvisational Music Companionship: A User-Modeling Approach

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Thom, B. Interactive Improvisational Music Companionship: A User-Modeling Approach. User Model User-Adap Inter 13, 133–177 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024014923940

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