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

fYear

2011

fDate

14-17 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

171

Lastpage

175

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Knowledge and Systems Engineering (KSE), 2011 Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hanoi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1848-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/KSE.2011.33

Filename

6063461