In a variety of disciplines such as social sciences, psychology, medicine and economics, the recorded data are considered to be noisy measurements of latent variables connected by...
Authority flow is an effective ranking mechanism for answering queries on a broad class of data. Systems have been developed to apply this principle on the Web (PageRank and topic ...
— We present three general approaches to detecting prototypical entities in a given taxonomy and apply them to a music information retrieval (MIR) problem. More precisely, we try...
The page rank of a commercial web site has an enormous economic impact because it directly influences the number of potential customers that find the site as a highly ranked sear...
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...