Answering general time-sensitive queries

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 220-235

  Dakka, Wisam ^a   Gravano, Luis ^b   Ipeirotis, Panagiotis ^c  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information search and retrieval; processing time sensitive queries; time sensitive search

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DOCUMENT RANKING; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; INFORMATION SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL; MECHANICAL TURKS; NEWS ARTICLES; RETRIEVAL PROCESS; RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES; SCORING TECHNIQUES; TEMPORAL ASPECTS; TIME INTERVAL; TIME-SENSITIVE SEARCH; TOPIC SIMILARITY; WEB DATA;

SEARCH ENGINES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84555206080     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2010.187     Document Type: Article

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