The way of development in the field library and exhibition activities Imperial Public Library (hereinafter – IPB) period from 1850 to 1917 is presented. role IPB employees M. A. Korf, V. Stasov, I. Sobolshchikov first methods for organizing exhibitions characterized. topic creating showcases designed by librarian architect highlighted. IPB’s participation Russian foreign reflected. history sigh...

Since the rise of rural tourism in China 1980s, natural conditions have mainly been relied on to develop such projects as flower appreciation, fruit picking, fishing, and farm foods focusing agricultural sightseeing experiencing life, which has long ignored cultural attributes tourism, resulting serious homogenization tourism. The author believes that exploring traditional farming culture impro...

Mobile services available on mobile devices such as mobile phones and Personal Digital Assistants are a suitable instrument for spontaneous, ad-hoc access to information travellers need while being on the move. The supply of mobile services with specific relevance to the traveller is already well developed: Mobile Services allow to book last-minute trips, rental cars and hotels; they provide in...

Destination prediction is an essential task for a number of emerging location based applications such as recommending sightseeing places and sending targeted advertisements. A common approach to destination prediction is to derive the probability of a location being the destination based on historical trajectories. However, existing techniques suffer from the “data sparsity problem”, i.e., the ...

This paper proposes a bootstrapping method of constructing statistical language models for new spoken dialogue systems by collecting and selecting sentences from the World Wide Web (WWW). To make effective search queries that cover the target domain in full detail, we exploit the document set described about the target domain as seeding data. An important issue is how to filter the retrieved We...

With millions of people traveling to unfamiliar cities to spend holidays, travel recommendation becomes necessary to assist tourists in planning their trips more efficiently. Serving as a prerequisite to travel recommender systems, understanding tourist behavior patterns is therefore of great importance. Recently, geo-tagged photos on social media platforms like Flickr have provided a rich data...