Blog track research at TREC

  • Authors:
  • Craig Macdonald;Rodrygo L.T. Santos;Iadh Ounis;Ian Soboroff

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK;University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK;University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK;NIST, Gaithersburg MD, USA

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGIR Forum
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The TREC Blog track aims to explore information seeking behaviour in the blogosphere, by building reusable test collections for blog-related search tasks. Since, its advent in TREC 2006, the Blog track has led to much research in this growing field, and encapsulated cross-pollination from natural language processing research. This paper recaps on the tasks addressed at the TREC Blog track thus far, covering the period 2006 - 2009. In particular, we describe the used corpora, the tasks addressed within the track, and the resulting published research.