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Modeling Score Distributions

Modeling Score Distributions
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Author(s): Anca Doloc-Mihu (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 7
Source title: Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining, Second Edition
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): John Wang (Montclair State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-010-3.ch206

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Abstract

The goal of a web-based retrieval system is to find data items that meet a user’s request as fast and accurately as possible. Such a search engine finds items relevant to the user’s query by scoring and ranking each item in the database. Swets (1963) proposed to model the distributions of these scores to find an optimal threshold for separating relevant from non-relevant items. Since then, researchers suggested several different score distribution models, which offer elegant solutions to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of different components of search systems. Recent studies show that the method of modeling score distribution is beneficial to various applications, such as outlier detection algorithms (Gao & Tan, 2006), search engines (Manmatha, Feng, & Rath, 2001), information filtering (Zhang & Callan, 2001), distributed information retrieval (Baumgarten, 1999), video retrieval (Wilkins, Ferguson, & Smeaton, 2006), kernel type selection for image retrieval (Doloc-Mihu & Raghavan, 2006), and biometry (Ulery, Fellner, Hallinan, Hicklin, & Watson, 2006). The advantage of the score distribution method is that it uses the statistical properties of the scores, and not their values, and therefore, the obtained estimation may generalize better to not seen items than an estimation obtained by using the score values (Arampatzis, Beney, Koster, & van der Weide, 2000). In this chapter, we present the score distribution modeling approach, and then, we briefly survey theoretical and empirical studies on the distribution models, followed by several of its applications.

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