Overview - Blog 2008

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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 (i.e. “What do people think about X?”) and the blog distillation task (i.e. “Find me a blog with a principal, recurring interest in X.”).

Track coordinator(s):

• I. Ounis, University of Glasgow
• C. Macdonald, University of Glasgow
• I. Soboroff, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Tasks:

• baseline: Baseline adhoc (blog post) retrieval
• opinion: Opinion-finding (blog post) retrieval
• polarity: Polarity opinion-finding (blog post) retrieval
• feed: Blog (feed) distillation

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

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