Survey of Temporal Information Retrieval and Related Applications

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2015

Authors

Ricardo Campos (Author) Other; Gael Dias (Author) Other; Alipio M Jorge (Author) FCUP; Adam Jatowt (Author) Other

Journal

Title: ACM Computing Surveys

Vol. 47

Final page: 15

ISSN: 0360-0300

Publisher: ACM

Indexing

ISI Web of Knowledge - 95 Citations

Scopus - 150 Citations

Scientific classification

FOS: Natural sciences > Computer and information sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-009-VF7

DOI: 10.1145/2619088

Abstract (EN): Temporal information retrieval has been a topic of great interest in recent years. Its purpose is to improve the effectiveness of information retrieval methods by exploiting temporal information in documents and queries. In this article, we present a survey of the existing literature on temporal information retrieval. In addition to giving an overview of the field, we categorize the relevant research, describe the main contributions, and compare different approaches. We organize existing research to provide a coherent view, discuss several open issues, and point out some possible future research directions in this area. Despite significant advances, the area lacks a systematic arrangement of prior efforts and an overview of state-of-the-art approaches. Moreover, an effective end-to-end temporal retrieval system that exploits temporal information to improve the quality of the presented results remains undeveloped.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 41