The blogosphere--the totality of blog-related Web sites-has become a great source of trend analysis in areas such as product survey, customer relationship, and marketing. Existing...
In recent years, the blogosphere has experienced a substantial increase in the number of posts published daily, forcing users to cope with information overload. The task of guidin...
Many interesting Web-based AI problems require the ability to collect, store and process large text datasets. To address this problem, we have developed Slashpack, an integrated t...
Christopher H. Brooks, Monica Agarwal, Jason Endo,...
Opinion mining techniques add another dimension to search and summarization technology by actually identifying the author's opinion about a subject, rather than simply identi...
The TREC Blog track aims to explore information seeking behaviour in the blogosphere, by building reusable test collections for blog-related search tasks. Since, its advent in TRE...
Craig Macdonald, Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Iadh Ounis,...