DCU at the TREC 2008 Blog Track

TitleDCU at the TREC 2008 Blog Track
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2008
AuthorsBermingham, Adam, Smeaton Alan F., Foster Jennifer, and Hogan Deirdre
Conference NameTREC 2008 - Text REtrieval Conference
PublisherNational Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)
Conference LocationGaithersburg, MD
KeywordsRP5
Abstract

In this paper we describe our system, experiments and re- sults from our participation in the Blog Track at TREC 2008. Dublin City University participated in the adhoc re- trieval, opinion finding and polarised opinion finding tasks. For opinion finding, we used a fusion of approaches based on lexicon features, surface features and syntactic features. Our experiments evaluated the relative usefulness of each of the feature sets and achieved a significant improvement on the baseline.

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