TimeTrails: A System for Exploring Spatio-Temporal Information in Documents

Summary: TimeTrails extracts spatio-temporal events from text, mapping them into database-like trajectories. It fuses IR with spatio-temporal DB concepts to visualize document trajectories on a map and support queries with spatial/temporal predicates. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10190
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 5.3766157e-05
Overall Rank: 8,755 | 39.94%
DOI: 10.14778/1920841.1921041

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Authors

1. Jannik Strötgen (University of Heidelberg)
2. Michael Gertz (University of Heidelberg)

BibTeX Citation

@article{strotgen_vldb10,
        title = {{TimeTrails: A System for Exploring Spatio-Temporal Information in Documents}},
        author = {Strötgen, Jannik and Gertz, Michael},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '10},
        volume = {3},
        number = {2},
        pages = {1569--1572},
        doi = {10.14778/1920841.1921041},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1920841.1921041},
        year = {2010}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,035	Topic Exploration in Spatio-Temporal Document Collections	2016	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

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