TEMPS: Temporal Sentence Embeddings for Temporal Information Retrieval

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arXiv:2609.28048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern information retrieval (IR) systems rarely represent time, yet many information needs depend on it: in clinical, journalistic, and legal search, when an event occurred can decide whether a document is relevant. Dense retrievers and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines match queries to documents well on topic but poorly on time, so they surface content that is on-topic yet temporally wrong. We introduce Temporal Textual Similarity (T