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NIPS
2007
13 years 11 months ago
On Ranking in Survival Analysis: Bounds on the Concordance Index
In this paper, we show that classical survival analysis involving censored data can naturally be cast as a ranking problem. The concordance index (CI), which quantifies the quali...
Vikas C. Raykar, Harald Steck, Balaji Krishnapuram...
FGR
2011
IEEE
354views Biometrics» more  FGR 2011»
13 years 1 months ago
Hierarchical ranking of facial attributes
Abstract— We propose a novel hierarchical structured prediction approach for ranking images of faces based on attributes. We view ranking as a bipartite graph matching problem; l...
Ankur Datta, Rogerio Feris, Daniel A. Vaquero
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Probabilistic models of ranking novel documents for faceted topic retrieval
Traditional models of information retrieval assume documents are independently relevant. But when the goal is retrieving diverse or novel information about a topic, retrieval mode...
Ben Carterette, Praveen Chandar
TSP
2010
13 years 4 months ago
Single antenna power measurements based direction finding
Abstract--In this paper, the problem of estimating direction-ofarrival (DOA) of multiple uncorrelated sources from single antenna power measurements is addressed. Utilizing the fac...
Joni Polili Lie, Thierry Blu, Chong Meng Samson Se...
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Joint Ranking for Multilingual Web Search
Ranking for multilingual information retrieval (MLIR) is a task to rank documents of different languages solely based on their relevancy to the query regardless of query’s langu...
Wei Gao, Cheng Niu, Ming Zhou, Kam-Fai Wong