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CSL
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Application-independent evaluation of speaker detection
We propose and motivate an alternative to the traditional error-based or cost-based evaluation metrics for the goodness of speaker detection performance. The metric that we propos...
Niko Brümmer, Johan A. du Preez
AI
2002
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Learning cost-sensitive active classifiers
Most classification algorithms are "passive", in that they assign a class label to each instance based only on the description given, even if that description is incompl...
Russell Greiner, Adam J. Grove, Dan Roth
CLASSIFICATION
2004
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13 years 8 months ago
Oscillation Heuristics for the Two-group Classification Problem
: We propose a new nonparametric family of oscillation heuristics for improving linear classifiers in the two-group discriminant problem. The heuristics are motivated by the intuit...
Ognian Asparouhov, Paul A. Rubin
STOC
2009
ACM
120views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
14 years 9 months ago
A constant-factor approximation for stochastic Steiner forest
We consider the stochastic Steiner forest problem: suppose we were given a collection of Steiner forest instances, and were guaranteed that a random one of these instances would a...
Anupam Gupta, Amit Kumar

Lecture Notes
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15 years 6 months ago
The Relational Data Model, Normalisation and effective Database Design
I have been designing and building applications, including the databases used by those applications, for several decades now. I have seen similar problems approached by different d...
Tony Marston