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I have been visiting various blogs for my
2010-09-17T14:37:25.066+01:00
I have been visiting various blogs for my thesis writing research. I have found your blog to be quite useful. Keep updating your blog with valuable information... Regards

The ranking is for the "past five years"...

2010-07-19T20:00:49.636+01:00

The ranking is for the "past five years". Salton hasn't obviously published in the last five years.

Thank you for the link. Looks reasonable with a fe...

2010-07-19T18:46:02.083+01:00

Thank you for the link. Looks reasonable with a few exceptions. E.g., where is Salton??

@random The Blog track wiki provides a precise tim...

2010-06-05T14:59:52.007+01:00

@random The Blog track wiki provides a precise timetable:

http://ir.dcs.gla.ac.uk/wiki/TREC-BLOG

In particular, it indicates when the runs are due, and when we the common baseline runs will be made available.

Can you please tell me when will be the baseline r...

2010-06-02T11:57:41.870+01:00

Can you please tell me when will be the baseline runs available?

thank you for you to make me learn more,thank you∩...

2010-05-12T05:56:58.014+01:00

thank you for you to make me learn more,thank you∩０∩

@All: the web server might have been down during p...

2010-04-02T09:47:02.862+01:00

@All: the web server might have been down during part of last week-end. It has been fixed since then.

is there any problem with new terrier site? I have...

2010-03-28T11:38:05.407+01:00

is there any problem with new terrier site?
I have been trying it but not opening

@All Yes, the introduction of the two-stage submis...

2010-03-18T15:57:02.205Z

@All Yes, the introduction of the two-stage submission procedure is meant to facilitate the participation of groups who cannot necessarily index the Blogs08 collection. Like in TREC 2008, several runs will be distributed as common baselines.

We have not worked out the precise timescale yet (this is progressing), but we expect that these baselines should be available during early summer.

Indeed, it is good idea to have the baselines runs for both 2009 and 2010 topics.

Note that you can obtain last year's submitted runs from the TREC web site.

Ahh also one thing to add .. of course this baseli...

2010-03-18T15:22:09.860Z

Ahh also one thing to add .. of course this baseline would be for topics of both i.e. TREC 2009 n TREC 2010? non??

A question on TREC Blog 2010: Are you providing B...

2010-03-18T15:20:24.522Z

A question on TREC Blog 2010:

Are you providing Baselines this year like you did for TREC 2008 so that people not having facility to index such a large collection can also participate. If Yes, then when you will provide? It will be one baseline or many??

Thanks

@Gul. Indeed, that was the general consensus durin...

2010-03-11T10:47:13.876Z

@Gul. Indeed, that was the general consensus during the blog track workshop at TREC. People thought that there is much more to do to have a good understanding of the current three facets, and it would make sense that we stick to them in the meantime, especially that there are now some training topics associated to these three facets.

I dont think people would like to have more facets...

2010-03-10T21:30:18.438Z

I dont think people would like to have more facets. Let us get more used to facets we r currenly using. Now when we are understanding the things better, we cannot go for more facets :=)

To allow people to use last year's topics for ...

2010-03-10T19:18:28.324Z

To allow people to use last year's topics for training, we will very likely be using the same facets as in 2009, i.e. Opinionated, Indepth, and Personal. However, if people want to see more facets, then we are happy to consider it.

In all cases, we will have many more topics this year than in 2009.

How many further Facets this year are to be added ...

2010-03-10T16:46:08.220Z

How many further Facets this year are to be added ???

Thanks for the response, Iadh! Following you on T...

2010-02-15T07:37:17.996Z

Thanks for the response, Iadh!
Following you on Twitter as well now... :-)

Hi Nimmy, All information about CIKM 2011 will be...

2010-02-11T11:35:44.703Z

Hi Nimmy,

All information about CIKM 2011 will be posted in due course in http://www.cikm2011.org

In addition, if you have a Twitter account, you can follow us in:

http://twitter.com/cikm2011

We will be using Twitter to advertise call for papers, etc.

We have also a CIKM 2011 Facebook group, which you are welcome to join.

Congrats! Looking forward to more information on t...

2010-02-10T03:32:34.127Z

Congrats! Looking forward to more information on the call for papers. I think I may have a good case study to share and would love to have the opportunity to do so at CIKM.

It was a pleasure and thanks again for the great s...

2009-08-04T21:09:33.641+01:00

It was a pleasure and thanks again for the great suggestions!

Duncan, great chatting with you at SIGIR, and look...

2009-08-04T20:26:22.723+01:00

Duncan, great chatting with you at SIGIR, and looking forward to seeing your system evolve. I know too well that it's a lot easier to suggest enhancements than to actually implement them!

Link to "Usefulness of Click-through data in ...

2009-07-27T11:08:04.829+01:00

Link to "Usefulness of Click-through data in Expert Search" is broken - should be
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~craigm/publications/macdonald09exclicks.pdf

Cheers,
Moshe Kranc

Thanks Pavel. Yes, indeed, table conversation was ...

2009-06-05T09:00:23.305+01:00

Thanks Pavel.
Yes, indeed, table conversation was helpful!

Congratulations! That table conversation was fruit...

2009-06-04T17:18:25.858+01:00

Congratulations! That table conversation was fruitful :)

Jon, These are indeed very good points. We shoul...

2009-05-12T14:53:00.000+01:00

Jon,

These are indeed very good points.
We should indeed separate facet accuracy classification from relevance, and I believe that this would be possible/doable. It is pretty much how we addressed the opinion finding task.

The relevance assessments for the blog distillation task this year will be performed by NIST.

We are still working on the details. Your feedback on the issue is very much appreciated.

don't know if we're going to participate this year...

2009-05-05T20:35:00.000+01:00

don't know if we're going to participate this year. I've got a busy summer and am getting interested in the relevance feedback track also, but this does seem like an interesting task.

If a relevant document is returned, but with the wrong facet value, would that count as non-relevant? Will you report facet accuracy as well as relevance?

At least for the example in the guidelines, relevance evaluation is being conflated with facet classification evaluation.

What is the motivation behind conflating these two evaluations, rather than reporting MAP and accuracy? I realize a user would see only a single ranked list, possibly filtered by facet value, but from the participants' perspective we might like to understand whether our system is failing on the relevance ranking or the facet value assignment.