UMass at TREC 2007 Blog Distillation Task

The focus of the blog distillation task is finding blogs with a principle, recurring interest in a specific topic. For this task, we considered a blog as a collection of postings and used resource selection approaches. Further, we investigated techniques that penalized general blogs and combined resource selection techniques. This combination demonstrated significant improvements over baselines.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: TREC
• Authors: Jangwon Seo, W. Bruce Croft
• Keywords: Blog Distillation Task, Resource Selection, Resource Selection Approaches, TREC 2007, TREC 2008