The tourist trip design problem (TTDP) refers to a route-planning problem for tourists interested in visiting multiple points of interest (POIs). TTDP solvers derive daily tourist tours, i.e., ordered visits to POIs, which respect tourist constraints and POIs attributes. The main objective of the problem discussed is to select POIs that match tourist preferences, thereby maximizing tourist sati...

This paper presents the methods to improve its portability of a spoken dialog system both on task domains and languages, which have been implemented in Chinese and Japanese in the tasks of sightseeing, accommodation-seeking guidance. Such methods include case frame conversion, template-based text generation and topic frame driven dialog control scheme. The former two methods are for improving t...

Currently, the sources of cultures and tourist attractions are presented in online documentary form only. In order to make them more virtual, the researcher then collected and presented them in the form of Virtual Temple. The prototype, which is a replica of the actual location, was developed to the website and allows people who are interested in Rattanakosin Island can see in form of Panorama ...

As is well-known, cultures are rooted in their unique regions, histories and languages. Communication media have been developed to circulate these cultural characteristics. As a part of our research “Cultural Computing”, which means the translation of cultures using scientific methods representing essential aspects of Japanese culture[1], an interactive Renku poem generation supporting system w...

Tourism industries are rapidly increased for the last few years especially in Malaysia. In order to attract more tourists, Malaysian Governance encourages any effort to increase Malaysian tourism industry. One of the efforts in attracting more tourists in Malacca, Malaysia is a duck tour. Duck tour is an amphibious sightseeing tour that works in two types of engines, hence, it required a huge c...

Gheel, the town of lunatics To the outsider Gheel is the town of lunatics. Here they go about freely, they can roam as they please, without any interference on the part of the public. The people of Gheel have a happy way of dealing with them and nobody objects to their presence. In fact they live and dwell with the families of Gheel, who take charge of them, as they give them board and lodging....

As a practical information guidance system, we have been developing a speech-oriented system named "Takemaru-kun". The system has been operated on a public space since Nov. 2002. The system answers to user's question about the hall facilities, sightseeing, transportation, weather information around the city, etc. All triggered inputs to the system have been recorded since the operation started....

The purpose of this research carried out within applied linguistics is to consider the dependency of the sentiment lexicon and other sentiment analysis tools on the domain under study. For the experiment, we used the REGEX algorithm including the sentiment lexicon and formal grammar rules applied with the certain priorities. These rules and the corresponding syntactic models are similar to regu...

In the e-Turist project we developed a mobile application that provide experience comparable to that offered by a professional tour guide, but tailored to each individual tourist. The tourist can enter his interests (entertainment, active tourism, gastronomy, cultural and natural heritage), the available time and any special requirements he/she may have. Based on these and other data such as op...

There have been developed many guide systems using location information. But most systems have a one-way communication system. We have developed a prototype universal two-way communication guide system, which was named The Forbidden City Explorer. This system has real-time information sharing functions including image data, chatting, and mutual location information. It gives priority to shared ...