University of Waterloo at TREC 2008 Blog Track
Abstract
The paper reports the University of Waterloo participation in the opinion and polarity tasks of the Blog track. The proposed method uses a lexicon built from several linguistic resources. The opinion discriminating ability of each subjective lexical unit was estimated using the Kullback-Leibler divergence. The KLD scores of subjective words occurring within fixed-size windows around instances of query terms were used in calculating document scores. The described system also used a method of identifying phrases in topic titles by matching them to Wikipedia titles. The results show that both KLD-based scores of subjective lexical units and Wikipedia-matched phrases are useful techniques that help improve opinion retrieval performance.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 2008
- Accession Number
- ADA512717
Entities
People
- Olga Vechtomova
Organizations
- University of Waterloo