Limits of Opinion-Finding Baseline Systems

Published

July 21, 2008

Author(s)

Ian M. Soboroff, Craig Macdonald, Ben He, Iadh Ounis

Abstract

In opinion-finding, the retrieval system is tasked with re- trieving not just relevant documents, but which also express an opinion towards the query target entity. Most opinion- finding systems are based on a two-stage approach, where initially the system aims to retrieve relevant documents, which are then re-ranked according to the extent to which they are detected to be of an opinionated nature. In this work, we investigate how the underlying baseline retrieval system performance affects the overall opinion-finding per- formance. We apply two effective opinion-finding techniques to all the baseline runs submitted to the TREC 2007 Blog track, and draw new insights and conclusions.

Proceedings Title

Proceedings of the 31th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval

Conference Dates

July 21-25, 2008

Conference Location

Singapore, SN

Conference Title

ACM SIGIR 2008 (Special Interest Group for Information Retrieval)

Pub Type

Conferences

Keywords

blog search, opinion finding

Citation

Soboroff, I. , Macdonald, C. , He, B. and Ounis, I. (2008), Limits of Opinion-Finding Baseline Systems, Proceedings of the 31th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval, Singapore, SN (Accessed October 11, 2025)