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NIPS
2003
13 years 9 months ago
AUC Optimization vs. Error Rate Minimization
The area under an ROC curve (AUC) is a criterion used in many applications to measure the quality of a classification algorithm. However, the objective function optimized in most...
Corinna Cortes, Mehryar Mohri
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
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14 years 20 days ago
Threshold query optimization for uncertain data
The probabilistic threshold query (PTQ) is one of the most common queries in uncertain databases, where all results satisfying the query with probabilities that meet the threshold...
Yinian Qi, Rohit Jain, Sarvjeet Singh, Sunil Prabh...
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Voting for candidates: adapting data fusion techniques for an expert search task
In an expert search task, the users' need is to identify people who have relevant expertise to a topic of interest. An expert search system predicts and ranks the expertise o...
Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
JCDL
2004
ACM
170views Education» more  JCDL 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
Looking for new, not known music only: music retrieval by melody style
With the growth of digital music, content-based music retrieval (CBMR) has attracted increasingly attention. For most CBMR systems, the task is to return music objects similar to ...
Fang-Fei Kuo, Man-Kwan Shan
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Studying trailfinding algorithms for enhanced web search
Search engines return ranked lists of Web pages in response to queries. These pages are starting points for post-query navigation, but may be insufficient for search tasks involvi...
Adish Singla, Ryen White, Jeff Huang