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NIPS
2003
15 years 2 months ago
AUC Optimization vs. Error Rate Minimization
The area under an ROC curve (AUC) is a criterion used in many applications to measure the quality of a classification algorithm. However, the objective function optimized in most...
Corinna Cortes, Mehryar Mohri
WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Web object retrieval
The primary function of current Web search engines is essentially relevance ranking at the document level. However, myriad structured information about real-world objects is embed...
Zaiqing Nie, Yunxiao Ma, Shuming Shi, Ji-Rong Wen,...
MM
2005
ACM
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15 years 7 months ago
Tracking news stories across different sources
Information linkage is becoming more and more important in this digital age. In this paper, we propose a concept tracking method, which links the news stories with the same topic ...
Yun Zhai, Mubarak Shah
IR
2010
14 years 12 months ago
Adapting boosting for information retrieval measures
Abstract We present a new ranking algorithm that combines the strengths of two previous methods: boosted tree classification, and LambdaRank, which has been shown to be empiricall...
Qiang Wu, Christopher J. C. Burges, Krysta Marie S...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Score distribution models: assumptions, intuition, and robustness to score manipulation
Inferring the score distribution of relevant and non-relevant documents is an essential task for many IR applications (e.g. information filtering, recall-oriented IR, meta-search,...
Evangelos Kanoulas, Keshi Dai, Virgiliu Pavlu, Jav...