Social Search Queries in Time
Georgia Koloniari, Kostas Stefanidis · 2013
Recently, social networks have attracted considerable atten-tion. The huge volume of information contained in them, as well as their dynamic nature, makes the problem of searching social data challenging. In this position paper, to increase the effectiveness of social search queries, we propose exploit-ing the temporal information available in social networks. In particular, we introduce different types of queries aiming at satisfying information needs from different perspectives. We present a formal graph and query model augmented with time and outline methods for query processing and time-dependent ranking. Finally, we identify several directions for future work. 1.