Blog links raise three key questions: Why did the author make the link, what exactly is he pointing at, and what does he feel about it? In response to these questions we introduce...
This paper describes our approaches to the opinion retrieval and blog distillation tasks for the Blog Track. For opinion retrieval we employ a two-stage framework consisting of ke...
In this paper we propose a new approach to capture the inclination towards a certain election candidate from the contents of blogs and to explain why that inclination may be so. T...
Weblog (usually shortened as blog) has gained its popularity lately. There are about 70,000 new blogs a day and about 29,100 blog updates an hour. As an emerging blogging phenomen...
Pujianto Cemerlang, Joo-Hwee Lim, Yilun You, Jun Z...
With an exponential growth of Weblogs (or blogs), many blog directories have appeared to help users to locate topical blogs. As tags are commonly used to describe blogs, we study t...