York University participated in the TREC 2008 Blog track, by introducing two opinion finding features. By initially focusing solely on the sentiment terms found in a document, usi...
In some information retrieval scenarios, for example internal help desk systems, texts are entered into the document collection without proofreading. This can result in a relative...
Information relevance is an important issue in information access techniques. A solution for improving this relevance is the personalization or adaptation of the answers provided ...
Ranking blog posts that express opinions regarding a given topic should serve a critical function in helping users. We explored a couple of methods for opinion retrieval in the fr...
This paper validates a recognition system using bidimensional wavelet transforms as feature extractor and investigates the relevance of each subband image in the recognition proce...