This paper describes our opinion retrieval system for TREC 2008 blog track. We focused on five different aspects of the system. The first module is focussed on extracting the blog...
The aim of this study is to understand the role of bloggers in driving viral information. More specifically, we develop a new methodology that creates a map of the „life cycleâ€...
Karine Nahon, Jeff Hemsley, Shawn Walker, Muzammil...
Most studies on tags focus on collaborative tagging systems where each resource (e.g., article, photo) can be tagged by multiple users with multiple tags. The tag usage patterns i...
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,...
In this paper, we attempt to specify the influencer and the influential terms in consumer package goods by using the influence diffusion model (IDM). IDM calculates the spread of ...