Our work for the NTCIR-11 Temporalia challenge, Temporal Query Intent Classification sub-task: predicting the temporal orientation of search engine user queries. We tackled the task as a machine learning classification problem, by proposing th use of temporal-oriented attributes specifically designed to minimise the sparsity of the models. The best submitted run achieved 66.33\% of accuracy, by correctly predicting the temporal orientation of 199 test instances out of 300.