Title :
An Ontology Based Approach to Data Representation and Information Search in Smart Tourist Guide System
Author :
Cao, Tuan-dung ; Phan, Thanh-hien ; Nguyen, Anh-duc
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Hanoi Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Hanoi, Vietnam
Abstract :
Tourism is travel for leisure and recreational purposes. However, travelers suffer from information overload when they use the Internet to look for information about potential destinations, events and related services. Providing the relevant information to tourists with different personal interests is still a challenging task for tourist guide information systems. This paper presents an ontology based approach for developing STAAR (Semantic Tourist information Access and Recommending), a system that addresses this problem. STAAR help tourist search information by providing a various semantic search feature in a mobile phone application. In addition, we propose an algorithm for recommending travel route relevant to both criterions: itinerary length and user interest.
Keywords :
information retrieval; mobile computing; mobile handsets; ontologies (artificial intelligence); travel industry; STAAR; data representation; information search; itinerary length; mobile phone application; ontology based approach; semantic search feature; semantic tourist information access and recommending; smart tourist guide system; user interest; Lakes; Mobile communication; Ontologies; Resource description framework; Semantics; Smart phones; mobile application; ontology; semantic web; travel information system;
Conference_Titel :
Knowledge and Systems Engineering (KSE), 2011 Third International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hanoi
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1848-9
DOI :
10.1109/KSE.2011.33
