  Entity aspect recommendation is an emerging task in semantic search that
helps users discover serendipitous and prominent information with respect to an
entity, of which salience (e.g., popularity) is the most important factor in
previous work. However, entity aspects are temporally dynamic and often driven
by events happening over time. For such cases, aspect suggestion based solely
on salience features can give unsatisfactory results, for two reasons. First,
salience is often accumulated over a long time period and does not account for
recency. Second, many aspects related to an event entity are strongly
time-dependent. In this paper, we study the task of temporal aspect
recommendation for a given entity, which aims at recommending the most relevant
aspects and takes into account time in order to improve search experience. We
propose a novel event-centric ensemble ranking method that learns from multiple
time and type-dependent models and dynamically trades off salience and recency
characteristics. Through extensive experiments on real-world query logs, we
demonstrate that our method is robust and achieves better effectiveness than
competitive baselines.
