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A data-centric approach to feed search in blogs

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International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology, Volume 7, Issue 3

Pages 228 - 249

https://doi.org/10.1504/IJWET.2012.048519

Published: 01 August 2012 Publication History

Abstract

The explosive growth of blogs creates a critical demand for information retrieval techniques to effectively search for required and meaningful information. This paper studied the blog distillation and feed search task in the TREC Blog Track, which was designed to search for the relevant feeds which have a principal and recurring interest in a particular topic or query. In this paper, a novel data-centric approach is proposed which achieved good results compared to others in the TREC Blog Track.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1504/IJWET.2014.064789
Tsai F(2011)Blogger-Link-Topic model for blog miningProceedings of the 15th international conference on New Frontiers in Applied Data Mining10.1007/978-3-642-28320-8_3(28-39)Online publication date: 24-May-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-28320-8_3

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Gupta KGoel A(2014)Blog in web applicationInternational Journal of Web Engineering and Technology10.1504/IJWET.2014.0647899:2(164-200)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1504/IJWET.2014.064789
Tsai F(2011)Blogger-Link-Topic model for blog miningProceedings of the 15th international conference on New Frontiers in Applied Data Mining10.1007/978-3-642-28320-8_3(28-39)Online publication date: 24-May-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-28320-8_3

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