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WEBI
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
How to Improve Your Google Ranking: Myths and Reality
Abstract--Search engines have greatly influenced the way people access information on the Internet as such engines provide the preferred entry point to billions of pages on the Web...
Ao-Jan Su, Y. Charlie Hu, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, C...
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Learning to rank relevant and novel documents through user feedback
We consider the problem of learning to rank relevant and novel documents so as to directly maximize a performance metric called Expected Global Utility (EGU), which has several de...
Abhimanyu Lad, Yiming Yang
ICML
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
On the Consistency of Ranking Algorithms
We present a theoretical analysis of supervised ranking, providing necessary and sufficient conditions for the asymptotic consistency of algorithms based on minimizing a surrogate...
John Duchi, Lester W. Mackey, Michael I. Jordan
MLDM
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Ensemble-based Feature Selection Criteria
Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE) combined with feature ranking is an effective technique for eliminating irrelevant features when the feature dimension is large, but it is diffi...
Terry Windeatt, Matthew Prior, Niv Effron, Nathan ...
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...