This paper develops the concept of usefulness in the context of supervised learning. We argue that usefulness can be used to improve the performance of classification rules (as me...
Gholamreza Nakhaeizadeh, Charles Taylor, Carsten L...
Question classification plays an important role in question answering. Features are the key to obtain an accurate question classifier. In contrast to Li and Roth (2002)'s app...
Weighted voting is the commonly used strategy for combining predictions in pairwise classification. Even though it shows excellent performance in practice, it is often criticized ...
—We formalize the notion of style context, which accounts for the increased accuracy of the field classifiers reported in this journal recently. We argue that style context forms...
The pairwise approach to multilabel classification reduces the problem to learning and aggregating preference predictions among the possible labels. A key problem is the need to qu...