Expectation of f-measures: Tractable exact computation and some empirical observations of its properties

SIGIR 2005 - Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 593-594

  Chai, Kian Ming Adam ^a  

^a DSO NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (Singapore)

Author keywords

F measures; optimisation; thresholding

Indexed keywords

EXACT COMPUTATIONS; F-MEASURES; NONCONVEXITY; OPTIMISATIONS; THRESHOLDING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84867130990     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1076034.1076144     Document Type: Conference Paper

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