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Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2016 pp 157–171Cite as

Enriching Travel Guidebooks with Travel Blog Entries and Archives of Answered Questions

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Travellers planning to visit particular tourist spots need information about their destination and they often use travel guidebooks to collect this information. However, guidebooks lack specific information, such as first-hand accounts by users who have visited the specific destination. To compensate for the lack of such information, we focused on travel blog entries and archives of answered questions. In this paper, we propose a method for enriching guidebooks by matching and aligning the information with blog entries and questions answered (QA) archives. This is a three-step method. In Step 1, we classify pages of guidebooks, blog entries, and QA archives into five types of content, such as “watch,” “dine,” etc. In Step 2, we align each blog entry and QA archive with guidebooks by taking these content types into account. In Step 3, we match each blog entry and QA archive with individual pages in guidebooks. We conducted some experiments, and confirmed the effectiveness of our method.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    We employed a coarse-to-fine alignment, that is to align in a coarse (guidebook) level (Step 2), then in a fine (page) level (Step 3).

  2. 2.

    For example, if we collect words that are peculiar to “watch” type, we compare words in type “watch” blog entries with other ones.

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  1. Graduate School of Information Sciences, Hiroshima City University, Hiroshima, Japan

    Kazuki Fujii, Hidetsugu Nanba & Toshiyuki Takezawa

  2. Department of Information Systems in Business, Hiroshima University of Economics, Hiroshima, Japan

    Aya Ishino

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Correspondence to Hidetsugu Nanba .

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  1. School of Tourism, Bournemouth University, Poole, Dorset, United Kingdom

    Alessandro Inversini

  2. HES-SO Valais, Sierre, Valais, Switzerland

    Roland Schegg

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Fujii, K., Nanba, H., Takezawa, T., Ishino, A. (2016). Enriching Travel Guidebooks with Travel Blog Entries and Archives of Answered Questions. In: Inversini, A., Schegg, R. (eds) Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2016. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28231-2_12

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