Subject: How to compare classification results From: Geoffroy Peeters <Geoffroy.Peeters@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:20:32 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Dear all, has anyone already deal with the comparison of classification results coming from experiments using various number of classes. In other words: how to compare a recognition-rate X coming from an experiment with N classes to a recognition-rate Y coming from an experiment with M classes. I guess one possibility is to compute for both, the ratio of the obtained recognition-rate to the random recognition rate (which depends on the number of classes). Example: - recognition-rate of 50% for 2 classes would give 1 (50%/50%) - recognition-rate of 50% for 4 classes would give 2 (50%/25%); So this would lead to the conclusion that the second system performs better. However, this measure has the drawback that it favors experiments with large number of classes: A 2 classes problem will never exceed a ratio of 2 (100%/50%) ! Thanks for any suggestions of references Best regards Geoffroy Peeters