Status: Active project

Project Description:
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.

Start Date: June 2006

End Date: December 2009

Principal Investigator:
Tim Finin

Faculty:
Anupam Joshi
Tim Oates

Students:
Akshay Java
Pranam Kolari
Justin Martineau

Collaborators:
James Mayfield

Tags: blog, splog, information retrieval

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2 Refereed Publications

2007

1. Akshay Java et al., "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, 1133 downloads.

2006

2. Pranam Kolari et al., "Blog Track Open Task: Spam Blog Classification", InCollection, TREC 2006 Blog Track Notebook, November 2006, 3215 downloads.

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Research Areas:
 Web based information systems