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Vox Blogguli

June 1, 2006 - December 1, 2009

Blogvox is an experimental system initially built for the 2006 TREC blog track. The goal was to do opinion retrieval from blog posts. GIven a query string describing a topic, e.g., "March of the Penguins", the system retieves blog posts that express an opinion, positive or negative, about the topic.

blog, information retrieval, splog

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Students

  1. Akshay Java
  2. Justin Martineau

Faculty

  1. Anupam Joshi
  2. Tim Oates

Adjunct Faculty

  1. Pranam Kolari

Collaborator

  1. James Mayfield

Publications

2007

  1. A. Java, P. Kolari, T. Finin, J. Mayfield, A. Joshi, and J. Martineau, "BlogVox: Separating Blog Wheat from Blog Chaff", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data, 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2007), January 2007, 3819 downloads, 8 citations.

2006

  1. P. Kolari, A. Java, T. Finin, J. Mayfield, A. Joshi, and J. Martineau, "Blog Track Open Task: Spam Blog Classification", InCollection, TREC 2006 Blog Track Notebook, November 2006, 8566 downloads, 11 citations.

Research Areas

  1. Web based information systems