Sciweavers

873 search results - page 101 / 175
» Tournament scoring problem
Sort
View
SIGIR
2011
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
When documents are very long, BM25 fails!
We reveal that the Okapi BM25 retrieval function tends to overly penalize very long documents. To address this problem, we present a simple yet effective extension of BM25, namel...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai
CVPR
2001
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Face Verification Using Error Correcting Output Codes
The Error Correcting Output Coding (ECOC) approach to classifier design decomposes a multi-class problem into a set of complementary two-class problems. We show how to apply the E...
Josef Kittler, Reza Ghaderi, Terry Windeatt, Jiri ...
WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 17 days ago
Enhanced hierarchical classification via isotonic smoothing
Hierarchical topic taxonomies have proliferated on the World Wide Web [5, 18], and exploiting the output space decompositions they induce in automated classification systems is an...
Kunal Punera, Joydeep Ghosh
PKDD
2009
Springer
118views Data Mining» more  PKDD 2009»
15 years 6 months ago
Protein Identification from Tandem Mass Spectra with Probabilistic Language Modeling
This paper presents an interdisciplinary investigation of statistical information retrieval (IR) techniques for protein identification from tandem mass spectra, a challenging probl...
Yiming Yang, Abhay Harpale, Subramaniam Ganapathy
CPM
1998
Springer
115views Combinatorics» more  CPM 1998»
15 years 4 months ago
Aligning Alignments
d abstract) John Kececioglu and Dean Starrett Department of Computer Science The University of Arizona Tucson AZ 85721, USA A basic computational problem that arises in both the...
John D. Kececioglu, Weiqing Zhang