Steven Skiena
3 papers in the PaperMetrix corpus
Papers by this author
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The Trumpiest Trump? Identifying a Subject's Most Characteristic Tweets
2019 · arXiv (Cornell University)
The sequence of documents produced by any given author varies in style and content, but some documents are more typical or representative of the source than others. We quantify the extent to which a given …
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Does It Pay to Optimize AUC?
2023 · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
The Area Under the ROC Curve (AUC) is an important model metric for evaluating binary classifiers, and many algorithms have been proposed to optimize AUC approximately. It raises the question of whether the generally insignificant …
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Statistically Significant Detection of Linguistic Change
2015
We propose a new computational approach for tracking and detecting statistically significant linguistic shifts in the meaning and usage of words. Such linguistic shifts are especially prevalent on the Internet, where the rapid exchange of …