UMass at TREC 2007 Blog Distillation Task
Jangwon Seo, W. Bruce Croft · 2007
The focus of the blog distillation task is finding blogs with a principle, recurring interest in a specific topic. For this task, we considered a blog as a collection of postings and used resource selection approaches. Further, we investigated techniques that penalized general blogs and combined resource selection techniques. This combination demonstrated significant improvements over baselines. 1