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WWW
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Measuring credibility of users in an e-learning environment
Learning Villages (LV) is an E-learning platform for people's online discussions and frequently citing postings of one another. In this paper, we propose a novel method to ra...
Wei Wei, Jimmy Ho-Man Lee, Irwin King
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SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Novelty and diversity in information retrieval evaluation
Evaluation measures act as objective functions to be optimized by information retrieval systems. Such objective functions must accurately reflect user requirements, particularly w...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. C...
176
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FGR
2011
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Hierarchical ranking of facial attributes
Abstract— We propose a novel hierarchical structured prediction approach for ranking images of faces based on attributes. We view ranking as a bipartite graph matching problem; l...
Ankur Datta, Rogerio Feris, Daniel A. Vaquero
65
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ICML
2003
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Margin Distribution and Learning
Recent theoretical results have shown that improved bounds on generalization error of classifiers can be obtained by explicitly taking the observed margin distribution of the trai...
Ashutosh Garg, Dan Roth
ICML
2010
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Metric Learning to Rank
We study metric learning as a problem of information retrieval. We present a general metric learning algorithm, based on the structural SVM framework, to learn a metric such that ...
Brian McFee, Gert R. G. Lanckriet