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DATAMINE
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
PRIE: a system for generating rulelists to maximize ROC performance
Rules are commonly used for classification because they are modular, intelligible and easy to learn. Existing work in classification rule learning assumes the goal is to produce ca...
Tom Fawcett
ICML
2003
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Optimizing Classifier Performance via an Approximation to the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney Statistic
When the goal is to achieve the best correct classification rate, cross entropy and mean squared error are typical cost functions used to optimize classifier performance. However,...
Lian Yan, Robert H. Dodier, Michael Mozer, Richard...
CSL
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A study in machine learning from imbalanced data for sentence boundary detection in speech
Enriching speech recognition output with sentence boundaries improves its human readability and enables further processing by downstream language processing modules. We have const...
Yang Liu, Nitesh V. Chawla, Mary P. Harper, Elizab...
CLEF
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
Detecting Wikipedia Vandalism using Machine Learning - Notebook for PAN at CLEF 2011
Wikipedia vandalism identification is a very complex issue, which is now mostly solved manually by volunteers. This paper presents the main components of a system built by our grou...
Cristian-Alexandru Dragusanu, Marina Cufliuc, Adri...
ECML
2007
Springer
14 years 2 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...