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ICML
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Learning Decision Trees Using the Area Under the ROC Curve
ROC analysis is increasingly being recognised as an important tool for evaluation and comparison of classifiers when the operating characteristics (i.e. class distribution and cos...
César Ferri, José Hernández-O...
ICML
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Is Combining Classifiers Better than Selecting the Best One
We empirically evaluate several state-of-theart methods for constructing ensembles of heterogeneous classifiers with stacking and show that they perform (at best) comparably to se...
Saso Dzeroski, Bernard Zenko
ICML
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Action Refinement in Reinforcement Learning by Probability Smoothing
In many reinforcement learning applications, the set of possible actions can be partitioned by the programmer into subsets of similar actions. This paper presents a technique for ...
Carles Sierra, Dídac Busquets, Ramon L&oacu...
ICML
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Exact model averaging with naive Bayesian classifiers
The naive classifier is a well-established mathematical model whose simplicity, speed and accuracy have made it a popular choice for classification in AI and engineering. In this ...
Denver Dash, Gregory F. Cooper
ICML
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
IEMS - The Intelligent Email Sorter
Classification of email is an important everyday task for a large and growing number of users. This paper describes the machine learning approaches underlying the i-ems (Intellige...
Elisabeth Crawford, Judy Kay, Eric McCreath
ICML
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A New Statistical Approach to Personal Name Extraction
We propose a new statistical approach to extracting personal names from a corpus. One of the key points of our approach is that it can both automatically learn the characteristics...
Zheng Chen, Liu Wenyin, Feng Zhang