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Overview of the TREC-2009 Blog Track

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Ian M. Soboroff, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis

Abstract

In TREC 2009, the Blog track has been markedly revamped with the use of a new and larger sample of the blogosphere, cal led Blogs08, which has a 13-month timespan covering a period ranging from 14th January 2008 to 10th February 2009, and the introdu c- tion of two new search tasks, addressing more refined and typi cal search scenarios on the blogosphere: Faceted blog distillation: A more refined version of the blog distillation task, addressing the quality aspect of the retrieved blogs. Top stories identification: A task that addresses news-related issues on the blogosphere.
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blog search, information retrieval, test collections, TREC
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Citation

Soboroff, I. , Macdonald, C. and Ounis, I. (2010), Overview of the TREC-2009 Blog Track, Other, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=905208 (Accessed October 11, 2025)

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Created May 3, 2010, Updated February 19, 2017
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