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ECML
2007
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
An Improved Model Selection Heuristic for AUC
Abstract. The area under the ROC curve (AUC) has been widely used to measure ranking performance for binary classification tasks. AUC only employs the classifier’s scores to ra...
Shaomin Wu, Peter A. Flach, Cèsar Ferri Ram...
SIGKDD
2002
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15 years 2 months ago
The True Lift Model - A Novel Data Mining Approach to Response Modeling in Database Marketing
In database marketing, data mining has been used extensively to find the optimal customer targets so as to maximize return on investment. In particular, using marketing campaign d...
Victor S. Y. Lo
ICALT
2005
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
An Empirical Exploration of Using Wiki in an English as a Second Language Course
In this paper, we present an empirical study of using a new and cost-effective Web-based collaboration software, Wiki, in a freshman-level English as a second language (ESL) cours...
Hao-Chuan Wang, Chun-Hung Lu, Jun-Yi Yang, Hsin-We...
PKDD
2010
Springer
183views Data Mining» more  PKDD 2010»
15 years 1 months ago
Fast Active Exploration for Link-Based Preference Learning Using Gaussian Processes
Abstract. In preference learning, the algorithm observes pairwise relative judgments (preference) between items as training data for learning an ordering of all items. This is an i...
Zhao Xu, Kristian Kersting, Thorsten Joachims
WSDM
2010
ACM
160views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
16 years 17 days ago
Learning Concept Importance Using a Weighted Dependence Model
Modeling query concepts through term dependencies has been shown to have a significant positive effect on retrieval performance, especially for tasks such as web search, where rel...
Michael Bendersky, Donald Metzler, W. Bruce Croft