NTCIR temporalia: a test collection for temporal information access research

Hideo Joho, Adam Jatowt, Roi Blanco

Abstract: Time is one of the key constructs of information quality. Following an upsurge of research in temporal aspects of information search, it has become clear that the community needs standardized evaluation benchmark for fostering research in Temporal Information Access. This paper introduces Temporalia (Temporal Information Access), a new pilot task run at NTCIR-11 to create re-usable datasets for those who are interested in temporal aspects of search technologies, and discusses its task design in detail.