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MyMap: Generating personalized tourist descriptions

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When visiting cities as tourists, most users intend to explore the area looking for interesting things to see or for information about places, events, and so on. To inform user choice, an adaptive information system should provide contextual information, information clustering, and comparative presentation of objects of potential interest in the area where the user is located. To this aim, we developed a system, called MyMap, able to generate personalized presentation of objects of interest starting from an annotated city map. MyMap combines context and user modeling with natural language generation for suggesting to the user what could be interesting to see and do using as interaction metaphor an annotated tourist map. An evaluation study has shown that the quality of the generated description is adequate compared with human-written descriptions.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Bari, 70126 via Orabona, Bari, Italy

    Berardina De Carolis, Giovanni Cozzolongo, Sebastiano Pizzutilo & Vincenzo Silvestri

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Berardina De Carolis is Assistant Professor and Researcher at the Department of Computer Science, University of Bari, Bari, Italy. Her main interests lie in the field of intelligent interfaces: in particular, user modeling, adaptive interfaces, and natural language generation. She is involved in several research projects concerning ambient intelligence, ubiquitous computing, and human-robot interaction.

Giovanni Cozzolongo graduated in computer science in 2003. Since December 2003 he has been a temporary researcher at the Department of Computer Science, University of Bari, where he collaborates with the Intelligent Interface research group; in 2005 he became a Ph.D. candidate. His research interests are group modeling, ambient intelligence, multiagent sytems, and human-computer interaction.

Sebastiano Pizzutilo is Associate Professor at the University of Bari. Currently he is teaching Computer Architecture and Distributed Systems courses in the Curriculum of Informatics, Department of Computer Science. He is also participating in several national and European Economic Community research projects on human-computer interaction and DCE. He is author of several publications, and at present his research interests include DCE methods and technologies, formal methods for evaluating user-adapted interfaces, agent theories, and languages.

Vincenzo Silvestri is a master student at the Department of Computer Science, University of Bari. He works as a programmer for the Intelligent Interface research group. His research interests are human-computer interaction, object-oriented programming, and distributed systems.

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De Carolis, B., Cozzolongo, G., Pizzutilo, S. et al. MyMap: Generating personalized tourist descriptions. Appl Intell 26, 111–124 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-006-0012-4

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