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Information, stored or transmitted in digital form, is often structured. Individual data records are usually represented as hierarchies of their elements. Together, records form larger structures. Information processing applications have to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Nikita Schmidt , Ahmed Patel

Temporal knowledge graphs represent temporal facts $(s,p,o,\tau)$ relating a subject $s$ and an object $o$ via a relation label $p$ at time $\tau$, where $\tau$ could be a time point or time interval. Temporal knowledge graphs may exhibit…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jiaxin Pan , Mojtaba Nayyeri , Yinan Li , Steffen Staab

This paper introduces a new web-based software tool for annotating text, Text Annotation Graphs, or TAG. It provides functionality for representing complex relationships between words and word phrases that are not available in other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Angus G. Forbes , Kristine Lee , Gus Hahn-Powell , Marco A. Valenzuela-Escárcega , Mihai Surdeanu

We present a hierarchical framework for analysing propositional linear-time temporal logic (PTL) to obtain standard results such as a small model property, decision procedures and axiomatic completeness. Both finite time and infinite time…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ben Moszkowski

Question answering in temporal knowledge graphs requires retrieval that is both time-consistent and efficient. Existing RAG methods are largely semantic and typically neglect explicit temporal constraints, which leads to time-inconsistent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Zulun Zhu , Haoyu Liu , Mengke He , Siqiang Luo

Visualizing changes over time is fundamental to learning from the past and anticipating the future. However, temporal semantics can be complicated, and existing visualization tools often struggle to accurately represent these complexities.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Cynthia A. Huang , Mitchell O'Hara-Wild , Rob J. Hyndman , Matthew Kay

Most instruments - formalisms, concepts, and metrics - for social networks analysis fail to capture their dynamics. Typical systems exhibit different scales of dynamics, ranging from the fine-grain dynamics of interactions (which recently…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-02-04 Nicola Santoro , Walter Quattrociocchi , Paola Flocchini , Arnaud Casteigts , Frederic Amblard

Heterogeneous temporal graphs (HTGs) are ubiquitous data structures in the real world. Recently, to enhance representation learning on HTGs, numerous attention-based neural networks have been proposed. Despite these successes, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yili Wang , Tairan Huang , Changlong He , Qiutong Li , Jianliang Gao

In this paper, we consider networks of static sensors with integrated sensing and communication capabilities. The goal of the sensors is to propagate their collected information to every other agent in the network and possibly a human…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-15 Hans Riess , Yiannis Kantaros , George Pappas , Robert Ghrist

In many real-world scenarios (e.g., academic networks, social platforms), different types of entities are not only associated with texts but also connected by various relationships, which can be abstracted as Text-Attributed Heterogeneous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Tao Zou , Le Yu , Yifei Huang , Leilei Sun , Bowen Du

Temporal knowledge graph completion (TKGC) aims to fill in missing facts within a given temporal knowledge graph at a specific time. Existing methods, operating in real or complex spaces, have demonstrated promising performance in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Li Cai , Xin Mao , Zhihong Wang , Shangqing Zhao , Yuhao Zhou , Changxu Wu , Man Lan

Modern applications often manage time-varying data. Despite decades of research on temporal databases, which culminated in the addition of temporal data operations into the SQL:2011 standard, temporal data query and manipulation operations…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Simon Fowler , Vashti Galpin , James Cheney

While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capabilities, they are not without their flaws and inaccuracies. Recent studies have introduced various methods to mitigate these limitations. Temporal reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Siheng Xiong , Ali Payani , Ramana Kompella , Faramarz Fekri

Temporal factors are tied to the growth of facts in realistic applications, such as the progress of diseases and the development of political situation, therefore, research on Temporal Knowledge Graph (TKG) attracks much attention. In TKG,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Kai Chen , Ye Wang , Yitong Li , Aiping Li

Our aim is to investigate ontology-based data access over temporal data with validity time and ontologies capable of temporal conceptual modelling. To this end, we design a temporal description logic, TQL, that extends the standard ontology…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-05-01 Alessandro Artale , Roman Kontchakov , Frank Wolter , Michael Zakharyaschev

Time is an important relevance signal when searching streams of social media posts. The distribution of document timestamps from the results of an initial query can be leveraged to infer the distribution of relevant documents, which can…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Jinfeng Rao , Hua He , Haotian Zhang , Ferhan Ture , Royal Sequiera , Salman Mohammed , Jimmy Lin

Temporal graphs are graphs whose topology is subject to discrete changes over time. Given a static underlying graph $G$, a temporal graph is represented by assigning a set of integer time-labels to every edge $e$ of $G$, indicating the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-09-30 George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier , Viktor Zamaraev , Philipp Zschoche

Temporal information extraction from unstructured text is essential for contextualizing events and deriving actionable insights, particularly in the medical domain. We address the task of extracting clinical events and their temporal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Rochana Chaturvedi , Peyman Baghershahi , Sourav Medya , Barbara Di Eugenio

Time plays a critical role in how information is generated, retrieved, and interpreted. In this survey, we provide a comprehensive overview of Temporal Question Answering (TQA), a research area that focuses on answering questions involving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Bhawna Piryani , Abdelrahman Abdallah , Jamshid Mozafari , Avishek Anand , Adam Jatowt

Temporal graph link prediction aims to predict future interactions between nodes in a graph based on their historical interactions, which are encoded in node embeddings. We observe that heterogeneity naturally appears in temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zhongyi Yu , Jianqiu Wu , Zhenghao Wu , Shuhan Zhong , Weifeng Su , Chul-Ho Lee , Weipeng Zhuo