Abstract. User generated content in general, and blogs in particular, form an interesting and relatively little explored domain for mining knowledge. We address the task of blog di...
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
Ranking blog posts that express opinions regarding a given topic should serve a critical function in helping users. We explored a couple of methods for opinion retrieval in the fr...
This paper describes our participation in the opinion retrieval task at Blog Track 07. The system consisted of the preprocess part, the topic retrieval part and sentiment analysis...
In this paper we describe Tokyo Institute of Technology’s attempt at the TREC2007 question answering (QA) track. Keeping the same theoretical QA model as for the TREC2006 task, ...
Edward W. D. Whittaker, Matthias H. Heie, Josef R....
: This is the first year our lab to participate in Trec. We participate in Mixed-Query task for the Web track. All the runs we submitted are based on the modified Okapi weighting s...