Classifying skewed data: Importance weighting to optimize Average Recall

13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages 2239-2242

  Rosenberg, Andrew ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion classification; Prosodic analysis; Prosody; Skewed class distributions

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIER PERFORMANCE; EMOTION CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION MEASURES; IMPORTANCE WEIGHTING; PROSODIC ANALYSIS; PROSODY; SAMPLING TECHNIQUE; SKEWED CLASS DISTRIBUTIONS;

LINGUISTICS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84878617148     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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