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ICML
2004
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Optimising area under the ROC curve using gradient descent
This paper introduces RankOpt, a linear binary classifier which optimises the area under the ROC curve (the AUC). Unlike standard binary classifiers, RankOpt adopts the AUC stat...
Alan Herschtal, Bhavani Raskutti
WSDM
2012
ACM
285views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
12 years 3 months ago
Probabilistic models for personalizing web search
We present a new approach for personalizing Web search results to a specific user. Ranking functions for Web search engines are typically trained by machine learning algorithms u...
David Sontag, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Benn...
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A machine learning approach for improved BM25 retrieval
Despite the widespread use of BM25, there have been few studies examining its effectiveness on a document description over single and multiple field combinations. We determine t...
Krysta Marie Svore, Christopher J. C. Burges
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 4 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
PKDD
2010
Springer
169views Data Mining» more  PKDD 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Classification with Sums of Separable Functions
Abstract. We present a novel approach for classification using a discretised function representation which is independent of the data locations. We construct the classifier as a su...
Jochen Garcke