TNO and RUN at the TREC 2012 Contextual Suggestion Track: Recommending Personalized Touristic Sights Using Google Places

Abstract

The purpose of the Contextual Suggestion track is to suggest personalized touristic activities to an individual, given a certain location and time. In our approach, we collected initial recommendations by using the location context as search query in Google Places. We first ranked the recommendations based on their textual similarity to the user profiles. In order to improve the ranking of popular sights, we combined the resulted ranking with a number of other rankings based on Google Search, popularity and categories. Finally, we performed filtering based on the temporal context.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA581306

Entities

People

  • Maya Sappelli
  • Suzan Verberne
  • Wessel Kraaij

Organizations

  • Radboud University Nijmegen

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Accuracy
  • Frequency
  • Information Operations
  • Language
  • Latitude
  • Longitude
  • Museums
  • Precision
  • Ratings
  • Standards
  • Training
  • Universities
  • Websites

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Business Analytics
  • Computer Networking
  • Information Retrieval