TY - GEN
T1 - Intelligent time-aware query translation for text sources
AU - Kaluarachchi, Amal
AU - Varde, Aparna S.
AU - Peng, Jing
AU - Feldman, Anna
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Time-stamped documents such as newswire articles, blog posts and other web-pages are often archived online. Since these archives cover long spans of time, the terminology in them could undergo significant evolution. In answering user queries over such text, it is desirable that the system be intelligent enough to incorporate historical information. For example, a query on Sri Lanka should automatically retrieve documents with its former name Ceylon. Hence, temporal terminology evolution needs to be taken into account to translate these queries. This has become vital today because users expect that computer systems have the intelligence to find all related information pertaining to their queries. In this research we attempt to discover such concepts that evolve over time and use those discovered concepts to provide time-aware responses to user queries. Our solution and evaluation are summarized in the paper.
AB - Time-stamped documents such as newswire articles, blog posts and other web-pages are often archived online. Since these archives cover long spans of time, the terminology in them could undergo significant evolution. In answering user queries over such text, it is desirable that the system be intelligent enough to incorporate historical information. For example, a query on Sri Lanka should automatically retrieve documents with its former name Ceylon. Hence, temporal terminology evolution needs to be taken into account to translate these queries. This has become vital today because users expect that computer systems have the intelligence to find all related information pertaining to their queries. In this research we attempt to discover such concepts that evolve over time and use those discovered concepts to provide time-aware responses to user queries. Our solution and evaluation are summarized in the paper.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77958566699
SN - 9781577354666
T3 - Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
SP - 1935
EP - 1936
BT - AAAI-10 / IAAI-10 - Proceedings of the 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 22nd Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference
PB - AI Access Foundation
T2 - 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 22nd Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, AAAI-10 / IAAI-10
Y2 - 11 July 2010 through 15 July 2010
ER -