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Time-Surfer: Time-Based Graphical Access to Document Content

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Advances in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2011)

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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.

Paper supported by the Spanish Government, project TIN-2006-15265-C06-01.

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  1. University of Alicante, Spain

    Hector Llorens, Estela Saquete & Borja Navarro

  2. University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Robert Gaizauskas

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  1. Information School, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, S1 4DP, Sheffield, UK

    Paul Clough

  2. CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland

    Colum Foley , Cathal Gurrin  & Hyowon Lee ,  & 

  3. Centre for Next Generation Localisation, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland

    Gareth J. F. Jones

  4. TNO Human Factors, Brassersplein 2, 2612 CT, Delft, The Netherlands

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  5. Yahoo! Research, 177 Diagonal, 08018, Barcelona, Spain

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Llorens, H., Saquete, E., Navarro, B., Gaizauskas, R. (2011). Time-Surfer: Time-Based Graphical Access to Document Content. In: Clough, P., et al. Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6611. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20161-5_90

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