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Overview of the TREC 2008 Blog Track

@inproceedings{Ounis2008OverviewOT,
  title={Overview of the TREC 2008 Blog Track},
  author={Iadh Ounis and Craig Macdonald and Ian Soboroff},
  booktitle={Text Retrieval Conference},
  year={2008}
}
Abstract : The Blog track explores the information seeking behaviour in the blogosphere. The track was introduced in 2006, with a main pilot search task, namely the opinion-finding task. In TREC 2007, the track investigated two main tasks inspired by the analysis of a commercial blog-search query log: the opinion-finding task and the blog distillation task. In addition, the Blog 2007 track investigated a natural extension to the opinion-finding task, namely the polarity task. All tasks thus far… 
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Overview of the TREC 2009 Blog Track

In TREC 2009, the Blog track has been markedly revamped with the use of a new and larger sample of the blogosphere, called Blogs08, which has a 13-month timespan covering a period ranging from 14th January 2008 to 10th February 2009, and the introduction of two new search tasks, addressing more refined and typical search scenarios on theblogosphere.

Blog track research at TREC

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Blog feed search with a post index

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Information Retrieval on the Blogosphere

This survey describes the phenomenon of blogging and the motivations for searching for information on blogs, and covers both the search tasks underlying blog searchers' information needs and the most successful approaches to these tasks.

UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) Blog feed search with a post index

This paper model the blog feed search task by aggregating over a blogger’s posts to collect evidence of relevance to the topic and persistence of interest in the topic, and introduces a two-stage model where a pre-selection of candidate blogs is followed by a ranking step.

Mining authoritative and topical evidence from the blogosphere for improving opinion retrieval

Is spam an issue for opinionated blog post search?

Investigation of the extent to which spam has affected the participating groups' retrieval systems over the three years of the TREC Blog track opinion-finding task shows that spam can be an issue, with most systems retrieving some spam for every topic.

An improved feedback approach using relevant local posts for blog feed retrieval

This paper proposes a novel feed-level selection of local posts which uses only highly relevant local posts in each top-ranked feed, in order to capture the correct and diverse relevant information to a given topic.

Time sensitive blog retrieval using temporal properties of queries

This paper proposes an efficient approach to improving relevant blog retrieval using temporal property of queries, which aims at ranking blogs with respect to their recurrent relevance to a user's topic.

RMIT at TREC 2010 Blog Track: Faceted Blog Distillation Task

This paper reports RMIT's participation in the TREC Blog Track 2010. For the baseline task, we adopted the BM25 model implemented in the Zettair search engine to establish a retrieval system of blog…
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