The paper reports the University of Waterloo participation in the opinion and polarity tasks of the Blog track. The proposed method uses a lexicon built from several linguistic re...
This paper presents an approach for the Opinion Finding task at TREC 2008 Blog Track. For the Ad-hoc Retrieval subtask, we adopt language model to retrieve relevant documents. For...
For opinion finding task our method of the combination of 5 Windows method and Pseudo Relevance Feedback behaves well, achieving an improvement of over 20% on the baseline adhoc r...
Opinion detection research relies on labeled documents for training data, either by assumptions based on the document’s origin or by using human assessors to categorise the docu...
In this paper, we discuss the the role of the retrieval component in an TREC style opinion question answering system. Since blog retrieval differs from traditional ad-hoc document...