Personal vs non-personal blogs: initial classification experiments

We address the task of separating personal from non-personal blogs, and report on a set of baseline experiments where we compare the performance on a small set of features across a set of five classifiers. We show that with a limited set of features a performance of up to 90% can be obtained. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: H.3.1 Content Analysis and Indexing; H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval; H.3.4 Systems and Software General Terms Algorithms, Measurement, Performance, Experimentation Keywords Blog classification, language modeling

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: SIGIR
• Authors: Erik Elgersma, Maarten de Rijke
• Keywords: General Terms Algorithms, Information Technology, Limited Set, SIGIR 2008, Small Set