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NIPS
2008
13 years 8 months ago
Overlaying classifiers: a practical approach for optimal ranking
ROC curves are one of the most widely used displays to evaluate performance of scoring functions. In the paper, we propose a statistical method for directly optimizing the ROC cur...
Stéphan Clémençon, Nicolas Va...
COLING
2010
13 years 2 months ago
An Empirical Study on Web Mining of Parallel Data
This paper1 presents an empirical approach to mining parallel corpora. Conventional approaches use a readily available collection of comparable, nonparallel corpora to extract par...
Gum-Won Hong, Chi-Ho Li, Ming Zhou, Hae-Chang Rim
EUROGP
2009
Springer
149views Optimization» more  EUROGP 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Adaptation, Performance and Vapnik-Chervonenkis Dimension of Straight Line Programs
Abstract. We discuss here empirical comparation between model selection methods based on Linear Genetic Programming. Two statistical methods are compared: model selection based on ...
José Luis Montaña, César Luis...
GECCO
2009
Springer
151views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Swarming to rank for information retrieval
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...
JCST
2008
138views more  JCST 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Predicting Chinese Abbreviations from Definitions: An Empirical Learning Approach Using Support Vector Regression
In Chinese, phrases and named entities play a central role in information retrieval. Abbreviations, however, make keyword-based approaches less effective. This paper presents an em...
Xu Sun, Houfeng Wang, Bo Wang 0003