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NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Overlaying classifiers: a practical approach for optimal ranking
ROC curves are one of the most widely used displays to evaluate performance of scoring functions. In the paper, we propose a statistical method for directly optimizing the ROC cur...
Stéphan Clémençon, Nicolas Va...
COLING
2010
13 years 9 days ago
An Empirical Study on Web Mining of Parallel Data
This paper1 presents an empirical approach to mining parallel corpora. Conventional approaches use a readily available collection of comparable, nonparallel corpora to extract par...
Gum-Won Hong, Chi-Ho Li, Ming Zhou, Hae-Chang Rim
EUROGP
2009
Springer
149views Optimization» more  EUROGP 2009»
13 years 12 months ago
Adaptation, Performance and Vapnik-Chervonenkis Dimension of Straight Line Programs
Abstract. We discuss here empirical comparation between model selection methods based on Linear Genetic Programming. Two statistical methods are compared: model selection based on ...
José Luis Montaña, César Luis...
GECCO
2009
Springer
151views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
13 years 12 months ago
Swarming to rank for information retrieval
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...
JCST
2008
138views more  JCST 2008»
13 years 5 months ago
Predicting Chinese Abbreviations from Definitions: An Empirical Learning Approach Using Support Vector Regression
In Chinese, phrases and named entities play a central role in information retrieval. Abbreviations, however, make keyword-based approaches less effective. This paper presents an em...
Xu Sun, Houfeng Wang, Bo Wang 0003