Sub-document timestamping of web documents

Conference paper (2015)

Authors

Y. Zhao Web Information Systems - EEMCS
C. Hauff Web Information Systems - EEMCS
Research Group
Web Information Systems (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
Timestamping Sub-documents Web-archiving
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Published Date

2015

Language

English

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Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Software Technology

Research Group

Web Information Systems

Abstract

Knowledge about a (Web) document's creation time has been shown to be an important factor in various temporal information retrieval settings. Commonly, it is assumed that such documents were created at a single point in time. While this assumption may hold for news articles and similar document types, it is a clear oversimplification for general Web documents. In this paper, we investigate to what extent (i) this simplifying assumption is violated for a corpus of Web documents, and, (ii) it is possible to accurately estimate the creation time of individual Web documents' components (so-called sub-documents).