Archive TimeLine Summarization (ATLS): Conceptual Framework for Timeline Generation over Historical Document Collections
This is an incremental position paper proposing a framework to assist researchers in studying historical document collections.
The authors tackled the problem of overwhelming search results and lack of context in historical document archives by proposing a conceptual framework for Archive TimeLine Summarization (ATLS) to generate informative, readable, and interpretable timelines.
Archive collections are nowadays mostly available through search engines interfaces, which allow a user to retrieve documents by issuing queries. The study of these collections may be, however, impaired by some aspects of search engines, such as the overwhelming number of documents returned or the lack of contextual knowledge provided. New methods that could work independently or in combination with search engines are then required to access these collections. In this position paper, we propose to extend TimeLine Summarization (TLS) methods on archive collections to assist in their studies. We provide an overview of existing TLS methods and we describe a conceptual framework for an Archive TimeLine Summarization (ATLS) system, which aims to generate informative, readable and interpretable timelines.