@inproceedings{hauer2021SMP-dorabella-inspire,
 abstract = {The Dorabella cipher is an encrypted note written by English composer Edward Elgar, which has defied decipherment attempts for more than a century. While most proposed solutions are English texts, we investigate the hypothesis that Dorabella represents enciphered music. We weigh the evidence for and against the hypothesis, devise a simplified music notation, and attempt to reconstruct a melody from the cipher. Our tools are n-gram models of music which we validate on existing music cor- pora enciphered using monoalphabetic substitution. By applying our methods to Dorabella, we produce a decipherment with musical qualities, which is then transformed via artful composition into a listenable melody. Far from arguing that the end result represents the only true solution, we instead frame the process of decipherment as part of the composition process.},
 accepted = {2021-11-30},
 author = {Bradley Hauer and Colin Choi and Abram Hindle and Scott Smallwood and Grzegorz Kondrak},
 authors = {Bradley Hauer, Colin Choi, Abram Hindle, Scott Smallwood, Grzegorz Kondrak},
 booktitle = {Speech and Music workshop at ICON},
 code = {hauer2021SMP-dorabella-inspire},
 data = {https://zenodo.org/record/4764819},
 date = {2021-12-16},
 funding = {NSERC Discovery},
 location = {India},
 pagerange = {33--38},
 pages = {33--38},
 rate = {Unknown},
 role = {Co-Author},
 title = {Dorabella Cipher as Musical Inspiration},
 type = {inproceedings},
 url = {http://softwareprocess.ca/pubs/hauer2021SMP-dorabella-inspire.pdf},
 venue = {Speech and Music workshop at ICON},
 video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmAQwTXSUHQ},
 year = {2021}
}