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Is spam an issue for opinionated blog post search?

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SIGIR '09: Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572090

Published: 19 July 2009 Publication History

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In opinion-finding, the retrieval system is tasked with retrieving not just relevant documents, but those that also express an opinion towards the query target entity. This task has been studied in the context of the blogosphere by groups participating in the 2006-2008 TREC Blog tracks. Spam blogs (splogs) are thought to be a problem on the blogosphere. In this paper, we investigate the extent to which spam has affected the participating groups' retrieval systems over the three years of the TREC Blog track opinion-finding task. Our results show that spam can be an issue, with most systems retrieving some spam for every topic. However, removing spam from the rankings does not markedly change the relative performance of opinion-finding approaches.

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Zeng YKlyuev VWu S(2012)An Opinion Mining Technique For Chinese BlogsFuture Information Technology, Application, and Service10.1007/978-94-007-4516-2_28(281-289)Online publication date: 5-Jun-2012
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SIGIR '09: Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

July 2009

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ISBN:9781605584836

DOI:10.1145/1571941

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James Allan
University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
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Northeastern University, USA
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University of Sheffield, UK
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ChengXiang Zhai
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
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University of Melbourne, Australia

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