Given a binary classification task, a ranker sorts a set of instances from highest to lowest expectation that the instance is positive. We propose a lexicographic ranker, LexRank,...
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...
Boosting methods are known to exhibit noticeable overfitting on some datasets, while being immune to overfitting on other ones. In this paper we show that standard boosting algorit...
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 ...
In conversational speech, irregularities in the speech such as overlaps and disruptions make it difficult to decide what is a sentence. Thus, despite very precise guidelines on how...