The Robert Gordon University

Blogs are highly rich in opinion making their automatic processing appealing to marketing companies, the media, costumer centres, etc. TREC ran a Blog track in 2006 with two tasks: opinion retrieval and an open task. This document reports the experiments conducted at The Robert Gordon University (RGU) where we used Statistical Language Models combined with shallow parsing techniques for the opinion retrieval problem.

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