University of Glasgow (uog_tw) at TREC Microblog 2012
Abstract
In TREC 2012, we participated in the search and filtering tasks of the Microblog Track. The Microblog track is in its second year, and whilst the real-time ad-hoc search task remained very similar to 2011, a new real-time filtering task was introduced. For both tasks, we made use of temporal evidence and a burst detection algorithm to re-rank documents created during bursty periods. We also made extensive use of query expansion, which yielded good results in the ad-hoc task, but mixed results in the filtering task. Many of our runs were well above the TREC Median, and the methods we propose show promise for application to Twitter.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 2012
- Accession Number
- ADA581507
Entities
People
- Andrew J. Mcminn
- Jesus A. Rodriguez Perez
- Joemon M. Jose
Organizations
- University of Glasgow