Opinion retrieval deals with finding relevant documents that express either a negative or
positive opinion about some topic. Social Networks such as Twitter, where people routinely …

Blog search engines and general search engines automatically crawl web pages from the
Internet and produce search results for users. One difference between the two is that blog …

We consider the problem of finding opinionated tweets about a given topic. We automatically
construct opinionated lexica from sets of tweets matching specific patterns indicative of …

Blogs have recently emerged as a new open, rapidly evolving and reactive publishing
medium on the Web. Rather than managed by a central entity, the content on the …

In this paper, we propose a method for optimizing search engine results based on user
interaction. This method generates different search results mainly through the user's …

The faceted blog distillation task retrieves blogs (ie RSS feeds) that are not only relevant to a
query but also satisfy an interested facet. The facets under consideration are opinionated vs …

Faceted blog distillation aims at retrieving the blogs that are not only relevant to a query but
also exhibit an interested facet. In this paper we consider personal and official facets …

Social media, such as blogs and microblogs (Twitter), gain popularity in people's daily life.
The volumes of blogosphere and micro-blogosphere are rapidly growing, which triggers the …