R. Gilad-Bachrach and C.J.C. Burges, "The Median Hypothesis", Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2012-56, 16 pages.
G. Zweig,J.C. Platt, C. Meek, C.J.C. Burges, A. Yessenalina and Q. Liu, "Computational Approaches to Sentence Completion", In Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2012. 10 pages.
G. Zweig and C.J.C. Burges, "A Challenge Set for Advancing Language Modeling", In Proceedings of the Workshop on the Future of Language Modeling for HLT, 2012. 8 pages.
G. Zweig and C.J.C. Burges, "The Microsoft Research Sentence Completion Challenge", Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2011-129, 17 pages.
C.J.C. Burges, "A Very Brief Look at the Bing Ranking Algorithm", talk given at the MSR Faculty Summit, July 2011. (With audio.) 5 minutes.
K.M. Svore and C.J.C. Burges, "Large-scale Learning to Rank using Boosted Decision Trees", in Scaling Up Machine Learning: Parallel and Distributed Approaches, Cambridge University Press, May 2011. 44 pages.
C.J.C. Burges, K.M. Svore, P.N. Bennett, A. Pastusiak and Q. Wu, "Learning to Rank Using an Ensemble of Lambda-Gradient Models", Journal of Machine Learning Research: Workshop and Conference Proceedings, vol. 14, pp. 25-35, 2011. This paper describes our winning entry in the Yahoo! Learning to Rank competition. 11 pages.
K.M. Svore, M.N. Volkovs and C.J.C. Burges, "Learning to Rank with Multiple Objective Functions", Proceedings of the International World Wide Web conference, March, 2011. 10 pages.
K.M. Svore and C.J.C. Burges, "Learning to Rank on a Cluster using Boosted Decision Trees", in Learning to Rank on Cores, Clusters, and Clouds Workshop, NIPS 2010 16 pages.
S. Jafarpour and C.J.C. Burges, "Filter, Rank, and Transfer the Knowledge: Learning to Chat", Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2010-93, 2010 18 pages.
C.J.C. Burges, "Dimension Reduction: A Guided Tour", Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning, Vol. 2, No. 4, 275-365, 2010 93 pages.
C.J.C. Burges, "From RankNet to LambdaRank to LambdaMART: An Overview", Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2010-82, 2010, 19 pages.
C.J.C. Burges, "Some Tutorial Notes on Dimension Reduction" talk prepared for NIPS 2009 Workshop on Visual Analytics.
Q. Wu, C.J.C. Burges, K. Svore, and J. Gao, "Adapting Boosting for Information Retrieval Measures", Journal of Information Retrieval, 2009, paper, tech report. The journal publication is also available at www.springerlink.com.
K. Svore and C.J.C. Burges, "A Machine Learning Approach for Improved BM25 Retrieval", CIKM 2009, 4 pages
J. Gao, Q. Wu, C.J.C. Burges, K. Svore, Y. Su, N. Khan, S. Shah and H. Zhou, "Model Adaptation via Model Interpolation and Boosting for Web Search Ranking", EMNLP 2009, 9 pages
P. Donmez, K. Svore and C.J.C. Burges, "On the Local Optimality of LambdaRank", SIGIR 2009, paper, tech report.
D. Zhou and C.J.C. Burges, "High-Order Regularization in Graphs", Intl. Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs, Helsinki, 2008 8 pages
K.M. Svore, L. Vanderwende, and C.J.C. Burges, “Using Signals of Human Interest to Enhance Single-document Summarization”, in Proceedings of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2008, Nectar track, 4 pages
Y. Yue and C.J.C. Burges, "On Using Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation for Learning to Rank, and the Empirical Optimality of LambdaRank", Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2007-115, 17 pages
P. Li, C.J.C. Burges and Q. Wu, "Learning to Rank Using Classification and Gradient Boosting", NIPS 2007, 10 pages
K. Svore, L. Vanderwende and C.J.C. Burges, "Enhancing Single-document Summarization by Combining RankNet and Third-party Sources", EMNLP 2007, 10 pages
D. Zhou and C.J.C. Burges, "Spectral Clustering and Transductive Learning with Multiple Views", ICML 2007, 8 pages
K. Svore, Q. Wu, C.J.C. Burges and A. Raman, "Improving Web spam classification using Rank-time features", AIRWeb workshop in WWW 2007, 8 pages
D. Zhou, C.J.C. Burges, and T. Tao, "Transductive Link Spam Detection", AIRWeb workshop in WWW 2007, 8 pages
C.J.C. Burges, R. Ragno and Q.V. Le, "Learning to Rank with Non-Smooth Cost Functions", NIPS 2006, 8 pages
I. Matveeva, C.Burges, T. Burkard, A. Laucius and L. Wong, "High accuracy retrieval with multiple nested rankers", SIGIR 2006, 8 pages
M. Taylor, H. Zaragoza, H. Craswell, S. Robertson and C. Burges, "Optimisation methods for ranking functions with multiple parameters", CIKM 2006, 9 pages
C.J.C. Burges and J.C. Platt, "Semi-Supervised Learning with Conditional Harmonic Mixing", in "Semi-Supervised Learning", MIT Press, 2006, Eds. O. Chapelle, B. Schölkopf, and A. Zien, 29 pages
C.J.C. Burges, "Ranking As Function Approximation", invited talk, Proc. Algorithms for Approximation 5 (July 2005), Springer 2006, 15 pages
C.J.C. Burges, "Ranking as Learning Structured Outputs", in Proceedings of the NIPS 2005 Workshop on Learning to Rank, Editors S. Agarwal, C. Cortes and R. Herbrich, Dec. 2005, 4 pages
R. Ragno, C.J.C. Burges, C. Herley, "Inferring Similarity Between Music Objects with Application to Playlist Generation", Proc. 7th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, Nov. 2005, 8 pages
C.J.C. Burges, T. Shaked, E. Renshaw, A. Lazier, M. Deeds, N. Hamilton, G. Hullender, "Learning to Rank using Gradient Descent", 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning, Bonn, 2005, 8 pages
J. Goldstein, J.C. Platt, C.J.C. Burges, "Redundant Bit Vectors for Quickly Searching High-Dimensional Regions", Sheffield Machine Learning Workshop, Springer, 2005, 22 pages
C.J.C. Burges, D. Plastina, J.C. Platt, E. Renshaw and H.S. Malvar, "Using Audio Fingerprinting for Duplicate Detection and Thumbnail Generation", International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE 2005, 4 pages
C.J.C. Burges, "Geometric Methods for Feature Extraction and Dimensional Reduction", "Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Handbook: A Complete Guide for Researchers and Practitioners'', Eds. O. Maimon and L. Rokach, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005, 36 pages
C.J.C. Burges, "Some Notes on Applied Mathematics for Machine Learning", in Proceedings of the 2003 Summer Schools on Machine Learning, Springer Lecture Series on Artificial Intelligence, Eds. Bousquet, Raetsch, von Luxburg, 2004, 20 pages
S. Sukittanon, A.C.Surendran, J.C. Platt and C.J.C. Burges, "Convolutional Networks for Speech Detection", International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2004, 4 pages
C.J.C. Burges, J.C. Platt, and S. Jana, "Distortion Discriminant Analysis for Audio Fingerprinting", IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol 11, No. 3, 2003, 10 pages
J. Goldstein, J.C. Platt and C.J.C. Burges, "Indexing High Dimensional Rectangles for Fast Multimedia Identification", Technical Report MSR-TR-2003-38, 2003, 12 pages
C.J.C. Burges and D.J. Crisp, "Uniqueness Theorems for Kernel Methods", Neurocomputing, Vol 55, 2003, 36 pages
P.Y. Simard, C.J.C. Burges, D. Steinkraus and H.S. Malvar, "Image Compression with On-Line and Off-Line Learning", ICIP 2003, 4 pages
C.J.C. Burges, J.C. Platt, and J. Goldstein, "Identifying Audio Clips with RARE", Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Conference on Multimedia", ACM Press, 2003
C.J.C. Burges, J.C. Platt, and S. Jana, "Extracting Noise-Robust Features from Audio Data", ICASSP 2002, 10 pages
C.J.C. Burges "Factoring as Optimization", Microsoft Research Technical Report TR-2002-83, 2002, 19 pages
J. C. Platt, C. J. C. Burges, S. Swenson, C. Weare and A. Zheng, "Learning a Gaussian Process Prior for Automatically Generating Music Playlists", NIPS 14, 2002 8 pages
C.J.C. Burges, P.Y. Simard and H.S. Malvar, "Improving Wavelet Image Compression with Neural Networks", Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2001-47, June, 2001 18 pages. Also in Proceedings, Data Compression Conference, March 2001, p.486 1 page abstract
C.J.C. Burges and D.J. Crisp, "Uniqueness of the SVM Solution", NIPS 12, 2000, pp. 223-229 7 pages
D.J. Crisp and C.J.C. Burges, "A Geometric Interpretation of nu-SVM Classifiers", NIPS 12, 2000, pp. 244-250 7 pages
B. Schölkopf, S. Mika, C.J.C. Burges, P. Knirsch, K.-R. Müller, G. Raetsch and A. Smola, "Input space vs. feature space in kernel-based methods", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 1999, 10:5, pp 1000-1017. 19 pages
C.J.C. Burges, "Geometry and Invariance in Kernel Based Methods", in Advances in Kernel Methods - Support Vector Learning, Eds. B. Schölkopf, C.J.C. Burges, A. Smola, MIT Press, Cambridge, USA, 1999 32 pages
C.J.C. Burges, S. Chari and C. Nohl, "Discriminative Gaussian Mixture Models for Speaker Identification", Bell Labs Technical Report, 1999, 19 pages
C.R. Nohl, D.S. Lee, J.I. Ben and C.J.C. Burges, "A system for address extraction from facsimile images", Proceedings, Symposium on Document Image Understanding Technology, 1999
C.J.C. Burges, "A Tutorial on Support Vector Machines for Pattern Recognition", Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Vol. 2, Number 2, p. 121-167, © Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998,
B. Schölkopf, P. Knirsch, A. Smola and C.J.C. Burges, "Fast Approximation of Support Vector Kernel Expansions, and an Interpretation of Clustering as Approximation in Feature Spaces", DAGM Symposium Mustererkennung, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1998 8 pages
B. Schölkopf, A. Smola, K.-R. Müller, C.J.C. Burges and V. Vapnik, "Support Vector methods in learning and feature extraction", Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems Vol. 1, pp. 3-9, 1998 7 pages
P. Niyogi, C.J.C. Burges, and P. Ramesh, "Distinctive Feature Detection Using Support Vector Machines", Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 1998 5 pages
C.J.C. Burges and B. Schölkopf, "Improving the Accuracy and Speed of Support Vector Machines", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 1997 7 pages
B. Schölkopf, K. Sung, C.J.C. Burges, F. Girosi, P. Niyogi, T. Poggio, and V. Vapnik, "Comparing Support Vector Machines with Gaussian Kernels to Radial Basis Function Classifiers", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 45:11, pp 2758-2765, 1997 7 pages
H. Drucker, C.J.C. Burges, L. Kaufman, A. Smola, and V. Vapnik, "Support Vector Regression Machines", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 1997
C.J.C. Burges, "Simplified Support Vector Decision Rules", 13th International Conference on Machine Learning, 1996, p. 71 8 pages
B. Schölkopf, C.J.C. Burges, and V. Vapnik, "Incorporating Invariances in Support Vector Learning Machines", in Proceedings, International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks. Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1996 6 pages
V. Blanz, B. Schölkopf, H. Bultoff, C.J.C. Burges, V. Vapnik, and T. Vetter, "Comparison of View-Based Object Recognition Algorithms Using Realistic 3D Models", International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, 1996 6 pages
B. Schölkopf, C.J.C. Burges, and V. Vapnik, "Extracting Support Data for a Given Task", in Fayyad, U. M., Uthurusamy, R. (eds.), Proceedings, First International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA 1995 6 pages
V. Vapnik, C.J.C. Burges, B. Schölkopf, and R. Lyons, "A New Method for Constructing Artificial Neural Networks: Interim ARPA Technical Report", AT&T Bell Laboratories, May 1, 1995
Y. Bengio, Y. LeCun, C. Nohl and C.J.C. Burges, "LeRec: a Neural Network / HMM Hybrid for On-Line Handwriting Recognition", Neural Computation, Vol. 7, Number 6, pp. 1289-1303, 1995
C.J.C. Burges, "Handwritten Digit String Recognition", The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, MIT Press, Ed. M. Arbib, 1995
H.P. Graf, C.J.C. Burges, E. Cosatto and C.R. Nohl, "Analysis of Complex and Noisy Check Images", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 1995
J.S. Denker and C.J.C. Burges, "Image Segmentation and Recognition", The Mathematics of Generalization: Proceedings of the SFI/CNLS Workshop on Formal Approaches to Supervised Learning, Addison Wesley, 1994, 24 pages
L.D. Jackel et al., "Neural Net Applications in Character Recognition and Document Analysis", Neural Networks in Telecommunications, Kluwer, 1994
C.J.C. Burges, J.I. Ben, J.S. Denker, Y. LeCun and C.R. Nohl, "Off Line Recognition of Handwritten Postal Words Using Neural Networks", International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 1993
C.J.C. Burges et al., "Shortest Path Segmentation: A Method For Training a Neural Network to Recognize Character Strings", IJCNN Conference Proceedings, Vol. 3, pp 165-172, 1992, 8 pages
C.J.C. Burges, J.I. Ben and C.R. Nohl, "Recognition of Handwritten Cursive Postal Words Using Neural Networks", USPS Advanced Technology Conference, pp. A-117-124, 1992
H.P. Graf, J.I. Ben, C.J.C. Burges and C.R. Nohl, "Address Block Location and Image Preprocessing Using Neural Net Hardware", USPS Advanced Technology Conference, pp. A-125--135, 1992
C.R. Nohl, C.J.C. Burges and J.I. Ben. "Character-Based Handwritten Address Word Recognition with Lexicon", USPS Advanced Technology Conference, pp 167-180, 1992
O. Matan, C.J.C. Burges, Y. Le Cun and J.S. Denker, "Multi-Digit Recognition Using a Space Displacement Neural Network", NIPS 4, pp 488-495, 1992
O. Matan et al., "Reading Handwritten Digits: A ZIP Code Recognition System", IEEE Computer, Vol 25, Number 7, pp 59-63, 1992
C.J.C. Burges and S. Zaleski, "Buoyant Mixtures of Cellular Automaton Gases", Complex Systems, Vol. 1, p. 31, 1987
C.J.C. Burges, "Current Conservation and Parallelism in Nonlinear Sigma Models", Physics Letters, Vol. 166B, p. 165, 1986
C.J.C. Burges, D.Z. Freedman, S. Davis and G.W. Gibbons, "Supersymmetry in Anti de Sitter Space", Annals of Physics, Vol. 167, p. 285, 1986
C.J.C. Burges, "The Gravitational Aharanov-Bohm Effect in Three Dimensions", Physical Review D, Vol. 32, 1985
C.J.C. Burges, "The de Sitter Vacuum", Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 247, p. 533, 1984
C.J.C. Burges and H.J. Schnitzer, "Deep Inelastic Scattering as a Probe of New Hadronic Mass Scales", Physics Letters, Vol. 131B, p. 49, 1983
L.F. Abbott and C.J.C. Burges, "Homogeneous Phase Transitions in an Inflating Universe", Physics Letters, Vol. 131B, p. 49, 1983
C.J.C. Burges and H.J. Schnitzer, "Virtual Effects of Excited Quarks as Probes of a Possible New Hadronic Mass Scale", Nuclear Physics, Vol. B228, p. 464, 1983