Overview - Blog 2006

Proceedings | Data | Results | Runs | Participants

The Blog track began this year, with the aim to explore the information seeking behaviour in the blogosphere. For this purpose, a new large-scale test collection, namely the TREC Blog06 collection, has been created. In the first pilot run of the track in 2006, we had two tasks, a main task (opinion retrieval) and an open task. The opinion retrieval task focuses on a specific aspect of blogs: the opinionated nature of many blogs. The second task was introduced to allow participants the opportunity to influence the determination of a suitable second task (for 2007) on other aspects of blogs, such as the temporal/event-related nature of many blogs, or the severity of spam in the blogosphere.

Track coordinator(s):

• I. Ounis, University of Glasgow
• C. Macdonald, University of Glasgow
• M. de Rijke, University of Amsterdam
• G. Mishne, University of Amsterdam
• I. Soboroff, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Tasks:

• opinion: Opinion Retrieval
• open_task: Open Task

Track Web Page: https://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/wiki/TREC-BLOG

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