Use of temporal expressions in web search

Authors:
Sérgio Nunes;Cristina Ribeiro;Gabriel David
Affiliations:
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal;Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto and INESC-Porto, Porto, Portugal;Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto and INESC-Porto, Porto, Portugal
Venue:
ECIR'08 Proceedings of the IR research, 30th European conference on Advances in information retrieval
Year:
2008

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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.