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    A Bayesian hierarchical model for comparing average F1 scores

    Zhang, Dell and Wang, J. and Zhao, X. and Wang, X. (2015) A Bayesian hierarchical model for comparing average F1 scores. In: UNSPECIFIED (ed.) 2015 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). IEEE Computer Society, pp. 589-598. ISBN 9781467395038.

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    Abstract

    In multi-class text classification, the performance (effectiveness) of a classifier is usually measured by micro-averaged and macro-averaged F1 scores. However, the scores themselves do not tell us how reliable they are in terms of forecasting the classifier's future performance on unseen data. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to explicitly modelling the uncertainty of average F1 scores through Bayesian reasoning, and demonstrate that it can provide much more comprehensive performance comparison between text classifiers than the traditional frequentist null hypothesis significance testing (NHST).

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    Item Type: Book Section
    Additional Information: 14-17 Nov 2015, Atlantic City, NJ.
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): text classification, performance evaluation, hypothesis testing, model comparison, Bayesian inference.
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
    Research Centres and Institutes: Birkbeck Knowledge Lab, Data Analytics, Birkbeck Institute for
    Depositing User: Dr Dell Zhang
    Date Deposited: 21 Oct 2015 15:18
    Last Modified: 09 Aug 2023 12:37
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13086

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