Time-Surfer: time-based graphical access to document content

Authors:
Hector Llorens;Estela Saquete;Borja Navarro;Robert Gaizauskas
Affiliations:
University of Alicante, Spain;University of Alicante, Spain;University of Alicante, Spain;University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Venue:
ECIR'11 Proceedings of the 33rd European conference on Advances in information retrieval
Year:
2011

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Abstract

This demonstration presents a novel interactive graphical interface to document content focusing on the time dimension. The objective of Time-Surfer is to let users search and explore information related to a specific period, event, or event participant within a document. The system is based on the automatic detection not only of time expressions, but also of events and temporal relations. Through a zoomable timeline interface, it brings users an dynamic picture of the temporal distribution of events within a document. Time-Surfer has been successfully applied to history and biographical articles from Wikipedia.