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Use of temporal expressions in web search

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Sérgio Nunes,

Cristina Ribeiro, and

Gabriel DavidAuthors Info & Claims

ECIR'08: Proceedings of the IR research, 30th European conference on Advances in information retrieval

March 2008

Pages 580 - 584

Published: 30 March 2008 Publication History

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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.

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ECIR'08: Proceedings of the IR research, 30th European conference on Advances in information retrieval

March 2008

718 pages

ISBN:3540786457

Editors:
Craig Macdonald
University of Glasgow, Department of Computing Science, Glasgow, UK
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Iadh Ounis
University of Glasgow, Department of Computing Science, Glasgow, UK
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Vassilis Plachouras
Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain
,
Ian Ruthven
University of Strathclyde, Department of Computing and Information Sciences, Glasgow, UK
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Ryen W. White
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA

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