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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
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Web object retrieval
The primary function of current Web search engines is essentially relevance ranking at the document level. However, myriad structured information about real-world objects is embed...
Zaiqing Nie, Yunxiao Ma, Shuming Shi, Ji-Rong Wen,...
MM
2005
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
Tracking news stories across different sources
Information linkage is becoming more and more important in this digital age. In this paper, we propose a concept tracking method, which links the news stories with the same topic ...
Yun Zhai, Mubarak Shah
IR
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Adapting boosting for information retrieval measures
Abstract We present a new ranking algorithm that combines the strengths of two previous methods: boosted tree classification, and LambdaRank, which has been shown to be empiricall...
Qiang Wu, Christopher J. C. Burges, Krysta Marie S...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Score distribution models: assumptions, intuition, and robustness to score manipulation
Inferring the score distribution of relevant and non-relevant documents is an essential task for many IR applications (e.g. information filtering, recall-oriented IR, meta-search,...
Evangelos Kanoulas, Keshi Dai, Virgiliu Pavlu, Jav...