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Wrapped feature selection by means of guided neural network optimisation
No full textIn this paper, we discuss the implementation of a wrapped neural network feature selection approach, introduced here as the Weight Cascaded Retraining (WCR) algorithm. The first part of the paper provides an outline of the algorithm and elaborates on its formal underpinnings. Central to the whole feature pruning approach is the iteratively conceived guided function optimization realized by passing the optimized weight vector from one iteration step to the next. This essentially gives rise to a cascaded form of neural network retraining. In the second part of the paper the theoretical exposition of the WCR algorithm will be illuminated and benchmarked by means of publicly available UCI case material. It is illustrated that WCR based neural network feature selection may be very effective in reducing model complexity for classification modeling via neural networks
An initial approach to wrapped input selection using least squares support vector machine classifiers: some empirical results
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Proof running two state-of-the-art pattern recognition techniques in the field of direct marketing
No full textIn this paper, we synthesize the main findings of three repeat purchase modelling case studies using real-life direct marketing data. Historically, direct marketing - more recently, targeted web marketing - has been one of the most popular domains for the exploration of the feasibility and the viable use of novel business intelligence techniques. Many a data mining technique has been field tested in the direct marketing domain. This can be explained by the (relatively) low-cost availability of recency, frequency, monetary (RFM) and several other customer relationship data, the (relatively) well-developed understanding of the task and the domain, the clearly identifiable costs and benefits, and because the results can often be readily applied to obtain a high return on investment. The purchase incidence modelling cases reported on in this paper were in the first place undertaken to trial run state-of-the-art supervised Bayesian learning multilayer perceptron (MLP) and least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) classifiers. For each of the cases, we also aimed at exploring the explanatory power (relevance) of the available RFM and other customer relationship related variable operationalizations for predicting purchase incidence in the context of direct marketing
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