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Development of An Opinion Blog Mining System

—Current search engines apply numerous innovative searching methods that are adhered to retrieve documents or web pages containing certain queried keywords along with their synonyms. Alternatively, the user might be interested in not just finding relevant documents or web pages to a query but also extracting the opinions or reviews commented previously on some topic; this is called opinion mining. This research aims to develop an opinion blog mining system; in general; the development process of Opinion system involves employing different models and schemes related to several computer science disciplines such as data mining, databases, social networks and information retrieval. Also, this research proposes a new opinion mining method that passes several phases that include the crawling of the reviews related to a certain search Query based on user. The expected system will be developed using the .NET 2008 environment.

The BlogVox Opinion Retrieval System

2006

The BlogVox system retrieves opinionated blog posts specified by ad hoc queries. BlogVox was developed for the 2006 TREC blog track by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory using a novel system to recognize legitimate posts and discriminate against spam blogs. It also processes posts to eliminate extraneous non-content, including blog-rolls, link-rolls, advertisements and sidebars. After retrieving posts relevant to a topic query, the system processes them to produce a set of independent features estimating the likelihood that a post expresses an opinion about the topic. These are combined using an SVM-based system and integrated with the relevancy score to rank the results. We evaluate BlogVox's performance against human assessors. We also evaluate the individual splog filtering and non-content removal components of BlogVox.

An effective statistical approach to blog post opinion retrieval

2008

Abstract Finding opinionated blog posts is still an open problem in information retrieval, as exemplified by the recent TREC blog tracks. Most of the current solutions involve the use of external resources and manual efforts in identifying subjective features. In this paper, we propose a novel and effective dictionary-based statistical approach, which automatically derives evidence for subjectivity from the blog collection itself, without requiring any manual effort.

Improving opinionated blog retrieval effectiveness with quality measures and temporal features

World Wide Web Journal, 2014

The massive acceptance and usage of the blog communities by a significant portion of the Web users has rendered knowledge extraction from blogs a particularly important research field. One of the most interesting related problems is the issue of the opinionated retrieval, that is, the retrieval of blog entries which contain opinions about a topic. There has been a remarkable amount of work towards the improvement of the effectiveness of the opinion retrieval systems. The primary objective of these systems is to retrieve blog posts which are both relevant to a given query and contain opinions, and generate a ranked list of the retrieved documents according to the relevance and opinion scores. Although a wide variety of effective opinion retrieval methods have been proposed, to the best of our knowledge, none of them takes into consideration the issue of the importance of the retrieved opinions. In this work we introduce a ranking model which combines the existing retrieval strategies with query-independent information to enhance the ranking of the opinionated documents. More specifically, our model accounts for the influence of the blogger who authored an opinion, the reputation of the blog site which published a specific blog post, and the impact of the post itself. Furthermore, we expand the current proximity-based opinion scoring strategies by considering the physical locations of the query and opinion terms within a document. We conduct extensive experiments with the TREC Blogs08 dataset which demonstrate that the application of our methods enhances retrieval precision by a significant margin.

Integrating proximity to subjective sentences for blog opinion retrieval

2009

Abstract. Opinion finding is a challenging retrieval task, where it has been shown that it is especially difficult to improve over a strongly performing topic-relevance baseline. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for opinion finding, which takes into account the proximity of query terms to subjective sentences in a document. We adapt two stateof-the-art opinion detection techniques to identify subjective sentences from the retrieved documents.

Finding Opinionated Blogs Using Statistical Classifiers and Lexical Features

Third International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and …, 2009

This paper systematically exploited various lexical features for opinion analysis on blog data using a statistical learning framework. Our experimental results using the TREC Blog track data show that all the features we explored effectively represent opinion expressions, and different classification strategies have a significant impact on opinion classification performance. We also present results when combining opinion analysis with the retrieval component for the task of retrieving relevant and opinionated blogs. Compared with the best results in the TREC evaluation, our system achieves reasonable performance, but does not rely on much human knowledge or deep level linguistic analysis.

Adaptive subjective triggers for opinionated document retrieval

Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining - WSDM '09, 2009

This paper proposes a novel application of a statistical language model to opinionated document retrieval targeting weblogs (blogs). In particular, we explore the use of the trigger model-originally developed for incorporating distant word dependencies-in order to model the characteristics of personal opinions that cannot be properly modeled by standard n-grams. Our primary assumption is that there are two constituents to form a subjective opinion. One is the subject of the opinion or the object that the opinion is about, and the other is a subjective expression; the former is regarded as a triggering word and the latter as a triggered word. We automatically identify those subjective trigger patterns to build a language model from a corpus of product customer reviews. Experimental results on the TREC Blog Track test collections show that, when used for reranking initial search results, our proposed model significantly improves opinionated document retrieval by over 20% in MAP. In addition, we report on an experiment on dynamic adaptation of the model to a given query, which is found effective for most of difficult queries categorized under politics and organizations.

Web opinion mining: how to extract opinions from blogs

2008

The growing popularity of Web 2.0 provides with increasing numbers of documents expressing opinions on different topics. Recently, new research approaches have been defined in order to automatically extract such opinions from the Internet. They usually consider opinions to be expressed through adjectives, and make extensive use of either general dictionaries or experts to provide the relevant adjectives. Unfortunately, these approaches suffer from the following drawback: in a specific domain, a given adjective may either not exist or have a different meaning from another domain. In this paper, we propose a new approach focusing on two steps. First, we automatically extract a learning dataset for a specific domain from the Internet. Secondly, from this learning set we extract the set of positive and negative adjectives relevant to the domain. The usefulness of our approach was demonstrated by experiments performed on real data.

Fusion Approach to Finding Opinions in Blogosphere

2007

In this paper, we describe a fusion approach to finding opinion about a given target in blog postings. We tackled the opinion blog retrieval task by breaking it down to two sequential subtasks: ontopic retrieval followed by opinion classification. Our opinion retrieval approach was to first apply traditional IR methods to retrieve on-topic blogs, and then boost the ranks of opinionated blogs using combined opinion scores generated by four opinion assessment methods. Our opinion module consists of Opinion Term Module, which identify opinions based on the frequency of opinion terms (i.e., terms that only occur frequently in opinion blogs), Rare Term Module, which uses uncommon/rare terms (e.g., "sooo good") for opinion classification, IU Module, which uses IU (I and you) collocations, and Adjective-Verb Module, which uses computational linguistics' distribution similarity approach to learn the subjective language from training data.