WHU at Blog Track 2007

We participate in all the sub tracks of the Blog track 2007. For the Opinionated Task, we use an excerpt list of the SentiWordNet to determine the opinionated nature of returned blog posts. For the Topic distillation Task, we test the effectiveness of cleaning work for the data collection in improvement of retrieval performance and the use of title and description part as queries. Both results show that our method does not work well.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: TREC
• Authors: Haozhen Zhao, Zhicheng Luo, Wei Lu
• Keywords: Blog Track, Sub Tracks, Topic Distillation Task, TREC 2007, TREC 2008