The mobility enhancement will target the consumer and enterprise markets, allowing fast access to mobile IP applications, multi-media messaging, mobile videoconferencing, etc. Possible tariffed services include: games, video clips, virtual sightseeing, emergency services, location based services, financial services, telematics, telemedicine, etc. The user will have access to these services at d...

Our goal in this study is to train a dialogue manager that can handle consulting dialogues through spontaneous interactions from a tagged dialogue corpus. We have collected 130 hours of consulting dialogues in sightseeing guidance domain. This paper provides our taxonomy of dialogue act (DA) annotation that can describe two aspects of utterances. One is a communicative function (speech act), an...

The social dimension of tourism is very important, because people often enjoy sightseeing in groups and involving their social network’s members in some tourist activities, such as sharing photos or buying a souvenir. Thus social context information can be very relevant for context-aware mobile tourism guides, i.e. applications assisting tourists on the move, exploiting available knowledge abou...

The prevalence of weblogs (blogs) has enabled people to share the personal experiences of tourists at specific locations and times. Such information was traditionally unavailable, except indirectly through local newspapers and periodicals. This paper describes a method of spatially and temporally obtaining specific experiences by extracting association rules from the content of blog articles. F...

Sightseeing are places that have the attractiveness of an area, and this makes them a place is visited by many tourists. However, several conditions make sightseeing unknown rarely tourists, which main problem in study. Through research, we will find out motivation tourists to travel, media used get information, attraction can attract visit. This research uses survey methods interviews with phe...

This paper presents a spoken dialogue framework that helps users in making decisions. Users often do not have a definite goal or criteria for selecting from a list of alternatives. Thus the system has to bridge this knowledge gap and also provide the users with an appropriate alternative together with the reason for this recommendation through dialogue. We present a dialogue state model for suc...