Use of Temporal Expressions in Web Search

@inproceedings{Nunes08, abstract = {While trying to understand and characterize users’ behavior online, the temporal dimension has received little attention by the research community. This exploratory study uses two collections of web search queries to investigate the use of temporal information needs. Using state-of-the-art information extraction techniques we identify temporal expressions in these queries. We find that temporal expressions are rarely used (1.5\% of queries) and, when used, they are related to current and past events. Also, there are specific topics where the use of temporal expressions is more visible.}, author = {Nunes, S\'{e}rgio and Ribeiro, Cristina and David, Gabriel }, booktitle = {Advances in Information Retrieval, 30th European Conference on IR Research}, citeulike-article-id = {2602637}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-78646-7\_59}, journal = {Advances in Information Retrieval}, keywords = {log-analysis, me, query, temporal, webir}, pages = {580--584}, posted-at = {2008-03-27 16:23:44}, priority = {0}, publisher = {Springer Berlin / Heidelberg}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, title = {Use of Temporal Expressions in Web Search}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78646-7\_59}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - Nunes08 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2602637 TI - Use of Temporal Expressions in Web Search T2 - Advances in Information Retrieval, 30th European Conference on IR Research SE - Lecture Notes in Computer Science JF - Advances in Information Retrieval SP - 580 EP - 584 PB - Springer Berlin / Heidelberg N2 - While trying to understand and characterize users’ behavior online, the temporal dimension has received little attention by the research community. This exploratory study uses two collections of web search queries to investigate the use of temporal information needs. Using state-of-the-art information extraction techniques we identify temporal expressions in these queries. We find that temporal expressions are rarely used (1.5% of queries) and, when used, they are related to current and past events. Also, there are specific topics where the use of temporal expressions is more visible. KW - log-analysis KW - me KW - query KW - temporal KW - webir AU - Nunes, Sérgio AU - Ribeiro, Cristina AU - David, Gabriel PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78646-7_59 ER -