Track Open Task : Spam Blog Classification ∗

Spam blogs or Splogs are blogs with either auto-generated or plagiarized content created for the sole purpose of hosti ng ads, promoting affiliate sites and getting new pages indexed . Splogs now rival generic web spam and e-mail spam, presenting a major problem to analytics on the blogosphere from basic search and indexing, to opinion, community, influence and correlation detection. This open task submission detai ls how splogs impact Opinion Identification, and proposes an approach to assessment and evaluation for a Spam Blog Classification task in 2007.