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...
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...
In this paper, we report our experiments on the Web Track TREC-2003. We submitted five runs for the topic distillation task. Our goal was to evaluate the standard language modeli...
We participated in the Opinion Retrieval Task and the Polarity Subtask. An SVM classifier was used to determine the opinion polarities of documents. We found that the opinion mean...
Topical noise in blogs arises when bloggers digress from the central topical thrust of their blogs. We introduce a method to explicitly incorporate a model of topical noise into a...