Traditional classification involves building a classifier using labeled training examples from a set of predefined classes and then applying the classifier to classify test instan...
Web extraction systems attempt to use the immense amount of unlabeled text in the Web in order to create large lists of entities and relations. Unlike traditional IE methods, the ...
The area under the ROC curve (AUC) has been advocated as an evaluation criterion for the bipartite ranking problem. We study large deviation properties of the AUC; in particular, ...
The NIPS 2003 workshops included a feature selection competition organized by the authors. We provided participants with five datasets from different application domains and calle...
Isabelle Guyon, Steve R. Gunn, Asa Ben-Hur, Gideon...
: Text classification, document clustering and similar document analysis tasks are currently the subject of significant global research, since such areas underpin web intelligence,...