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Is spam an issue for opinionated blog post search?

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Author(s)

Ian M. Soboroff, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis

Abstract

In opinion-finding, the retrieval system is tasked with re- trieving 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 TREC Blog track in recent years. Spam blogs (splogs) are thought to be a problem on the blo- gosphere. In this poster, we investigate the extent to which spam has affected the retrieval systems of the participating groups over the three years of the TREC Blog track opinion- finding task.
Proceedings Title
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval
Conference Dates
July 19-23, 2009
Conference Location
Boston, MA
Conference Title
ACM SIGIR 2009
Pub Type
Conferences

Keywords

blog search, information retrieval, search effectiveness, spam
Data and informatics

Citation

Soboroff, I. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2009), Is spam an issue for opinionated blog post search?, Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval, Boston, MA (Accessed March 14, 2025)

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Created July 19, 2009, Updated February 19, 2017