It's High Time: A Survey of Temporal Question Answering
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| author | Piryani, Bhawna Abdallah, Abdelrahman Mozafari, Jamshid Anand, Avishek Jatowt, Adam |
| author_facet | Piryani, Bhawna Abdallah, Abdelrahman Mozafari, Jamshid Anand, Avishek Jatowt, Adam |
| contents | 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 temporal constraints or context. As time-stamped content from sources like news articles, web archives, and knowledge bases continues to grow, TQA systems must address challenges such as detecting temporal intent, normalizing time expressions, ordering events, and reasoning over evolving or ambiguous facts. We organize existing work through a unified perspective that captures the interaction between corpus temporality, question temporality, and model capabilities, enabling a systematic comparison of datasets, tasks, and approaches. We review recent advances in TQA enabled by neural architectures, especially transformer-based models and Large Language Models (LLMs), highlighting progress in temporal language modeling, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and temporal reasoning. We also discuss benchmark datasets and evaluation strategies designed to test temporal robustness, |
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| spellingShingle | It's High Time: A Survey of Temporal Question Answering Piryani, Bhawna Abdallah, Abdelrahman Mozafari, Jamshid Anand, Avishek Jatowt, Adam Computation and Language Information Retrieval 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 temporal constraints or context. As time-stamped content from sources like news articles, web archives, and knowledge bases continues to grow, TQA systems must address challenges such as detecting temporal intent, normalizing time expressions, ordering events, and reasoning over evolving or ambiguous facts. We organize existing work through a unified perspective that captures the interaction between corpus temporality, question temporality, and model capabilities, enabling a systematic comparison of datasets, tasks, and approaches. We review recent advances in TQA enabled by neural architectures, especially transformer-based models and Large Language Models (LLMs), highlighting progress in temporal language modeling, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and temporal reasoning. We also discuss benchmark datasets and evaluation strategies designed to test temporal robustness, |
| title | It's High Time: A Survey of Temporal Question Answering |
| topic | Computation and Language Information Retrieval |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20243 |