This paper describes our approaches to the opinion retrieval and blog distillation tasks for the Blog Track. For opinion retrieval we employ a two-stage framework consisting of ke...
Abstract. Telecommunication applications based on user modeling focus on extracting customer behavior and preferences from the information implicitly included in Call Detail Record...
Blogging has been an emerging media for people to express themselves. However, the presence of spam-blogs (also known as splogs) may reduce the value of blogs and blog search engi...
Accurately and effectively detecting the locations where search queries are truly about has huge potential impact on increasing search relevance. In this paper, we define a search...
Lee Wang, Chuang Wang, Xing Xie, Josh Forman, Yans...
Previous efforts on event detection from the web have focused primarily on web content and structure data ignoring the rich collection of web log data. In this paper, we propose t...
Qiankun Zhao, Tie-Yan Liu, Sourav S. Bhowmick, Wei...