Bermingham, Adam, Smeaton, Alan F.ORCID: 0000-0003-1028-8389, Foster, JenniferORCID: 0000-0002-7789-4853 and Hogan, Deirdre
(2008)
DCU at the TREC 2008 Blog Track.
In: TREC 2008 - Text REtrieval Conference, Gaithersburg, MD.
In this paper we describe our system, experiments and re-
sults from our participation in the Blog Track at TREC
2008. Dublin City University participated in the adhoc re-
trieval, opinion finding and polarised opinion finding tasks.
For opinion finding, we used a fusion of approaches based
on lexicon features, surface features and syntactic features.
Our experiments evaluated the relative usefulness of each of
the feature sets and achieved a significant improvement on
the baseline.