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Linguistic aggregation methods in blog retrieval

  • Keikha, Mostafa Facoltà di scienze informatiche, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
  • Crestani, Fabio Facoltà di scienze informatiche, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
    26.07.2012
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  • Information processing and management: an international journal. - Elsevier. - 2012, vol. 48, no. 3, p. 467–475
Blog retrieval
aggregation methods
ordered weighted averaging operators
English This paper addresses the blog distillation problem, that is, given a user query find the blogs that are most related to the query topic. We model each post as evidence of the relevance of a blog to the query, and use aggregation methods like Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) operators to combine the evidence. We show that using only highly relevant evidence (posts) for each blog can result in an effective retrieval system. We also take into account the importance of the posts in a query-based cluster and investigate its effect in the aggregation results. We use prioritized OWA operators and show that considering the importance is effective when the number of aggregated posts from each blog is high. We carry out our experiments on three different data sets (TREC07, TREC08 and TREC09) and show statistically significant improvements over state of the art model called Voting Model.
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