The rise of blogging as a new grassroots publishing medium and the many interesting peculiarities that characterise blogs compared to other genres of documents opened up several n...
This paper describes our participation in the 2008 TREC Blog track. Our system consists of 3 components: data preprocessing, topic retrieval, and opinion finding. In the topic ret...
The paper reports the University of Waterloo participation in the opinion and polarity tasks of the Blog track. The proposed method uses a lexicon built from several linguistic re...
This paper presents an approach for the Opinion Finding task at TREC 2008 Blog Track. For the Ad-hoc Retrieval subtask, we adopt language model to retrieve relevant documents. For...
For opinion finding task our method of the combination of 5 Windows method and Pseudo Relevance Feedback behaves well, achieving an improvement of over 20% on the baseline adhoc r...