Handling temporal information in web search engines

  • Authors:
  • Edimar Manica;Carina F. Dorneles;Renata Renata Galante

  • Affiliations:
  • Campus Avançado Ibirubá, IFRS, Ibirubá, Brazil, II, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil;INE/CTC, UFSC Florianópolis, Brazil;II, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGMOD Record
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

TheWeb can be considered a vast repository of temporal information, as it daily receives a huge amount of new pages. Generally, users are interested in information related to a specific temporal interval. In the information retrieval area, researches have newly incorporated the temporal dimension to the search engines. This paper presents a comprehensive study that describes the evolution of search engines on the exploitation of temporal information. Research directions and future perspectives are also presented, considering the authors' point of view.