Abstract--Imbalanced data sets present a particular challenge to the data mining community. Often, it is the rare event that is of interest and the cost of misclassifying the rare ...
This paper presents our solution for KDD Cup 2008 competition that aims at optimizing the area under ROC for breast cancer detection. We exploited weighted-based classification me...
Real life datasets often suffer from the problem of class imbalance, which thwarts supervised learning process. In such data sets examples of positive (minority) class are signific...
The goal of this work is to produce a classifier that can distinguish subjective sentences from objective sentences for the Urdu language. The amount of labeled data required for ...
Guided by an initial idea of building a complex (non linear) decision surface with maximal local margin in input space, we give a possible geometrical intuition as to why K-Neares...