ECAI 2008 paper online

Finding Key Bloggers, One Post At A Time by Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog and Maarten de Rijke is available online now. Our idea of applying expertise retrieval models to the task of blog distillation was first described in a SIGIR 2008 poster titled Bloggers as Experts. The conclusions of that work was that the expert finding Model 1 can compete with state-of-the-art on the blog distillation task. In the ECAI paper we explore additional blog-specific features (including representation, number of comments, post length, and temporal ordering) and, in addition, a combination of these. We find that these result in significant improvements over the baseline.

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