Blog post opinion retrieval is the problem of identifying posts which express an opinion about a particular topic. Usually the problem is solved using a 3 step process in which rel...
In this paper, we discuss the the role of the retrieval component in an TREC style opinion question answering system. Since blog retrieval differs from traditional ad-hoc document...
Blog post opinion retrieval aims at finding blog posts that are relevant and opinionated about a user’s query. In this paper we propose a simple probabilistic model for assigni...
This paper addresses a relatively new text categorization problem: classifying a political blog as either `liberal' or `conservative', based on its political leaning. Ins...
In this paper we describe our system, experiments and results from our participation in the Blog Track at TREC 2008. Dublin City University participated in the adhoc retrieval, op...
Adam Bermingham, Alan F. Smeaton, Jennifer Foster,...