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Bridging temporal context gaps using time-aware re-contextualization

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Understanding a text, which was written some time ago, can be compared to translating a text from another language. Complete interpretation requires a mapping, in this case, a kind of time-travel translation between present context knowledge and context knowledge at time of text creation. In this paper, we study time-aware re-contextualization, the challenging problem of retrieving concise and complementing information in order to bridge this temporal context gap. We propose an approach based on learning to rank techniques using sentence-level context information extracted from Wikipedia. The employed ranking combines relevance, complimentarity and time-awareness. The effectiveness of the approach is evaluated by contextualizing articles from a news archive collection using more than 7,000 manually judged relevance pairs. To this end, we show that our approach is able to retrieve a significant number of relevant context information for a given news article.

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    SIGIR '14: Proceedings of the 37th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research & development in information retrieval
    July 2014
    1330 pages
    ISBN:9781450322577
    DOI:10.1145/2600428
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    1. complementarity
    2. temporal context
    3. time-aware re-contextualization
    4. wikipedia

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    • (2020)Towards Memorable Information RetrievalProceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGIR on International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval10.1145/3409256.3409830(69-76)Online publication date: 14-Sep-2020
    • (2015)Back to the PastProceedings of the Eighth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining10.1145/2684822.2685315(339-348)Online publication date: 2-Feb-2015
    • (2015)Photos to Remember, Photos to ForgetIEEE MultiMedia10.1109/MMUL.2015.1222:1(6-11)Online publication date: 3-Feb-2015

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