Abstract:
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An experimental comparison among Support Vector Machines, AdaBoost and a recently proposed model for maximizing the margin with
Feed-forward Neural Networks has been made on a real-world classification problem, namely Text Categorization. The results obtained
when comparing their agreement on the predictions show that similar performance does not imply similar predictions, suggesting that
different models can be combined to obtain better performance. As a consequence of the study, we derived a very simple confidence
measure of the prediction of the tested margin-based classifiers. This measure is based on the margin curve. The combination of
margin-based classifiers with this confidence measure lead to a marked improvement on the performance of the system, when combined with several well-known combination schemes. |