Normalized Attraction Travel Personality Representation for Improving Travel Recommender Systems
Travel recommender systems (TRSs) aim to reduce travel-related search overload. A significant part of a TRS is representing attractions in a way that reflect the explicit and implicit features of attractions. However, traditional attraction representation methods may not provide a complete image of...
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| description | Travel recommender systems (TRSs) aim to reduce travel-related search overload. A significant part of a TRS is representing attractions in a way that reflect the explicit and implicit features of attractions. However, traditional attraction representation methods may not provide a complete image of attractions. Building on the notions of user travel styles (UTSs) and the wisdom of crowds, we propose a method derived from topic-model-based models to represent travel attractions, called the Normalized Attraction Travel Personality (NATP) representation. This approach attempts to leverage the semantics of attraction reviews to model user travel personalities (UTPs), which collectively can construct the attraction travel personality (ATP) representation. Furthermore, we regularize and normalize the ATP representation to obtain our proposed representation. This NATP-based attraction representation could capture implicit characteristics of attractions revealed by the wisdom of crowds. Our experiments show that our representation method gained better results when evaluated against comparative approaches in terms of rating prediction and recommendation ranking quality, indicating the effectiveness of the proposed attraction representation. Lastly, we qualitatively investigate how our attraction representation surpasses the state-of-the-art representation methods. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3fb8e3d732634ec697d5bb01b340c8b92024-12-11T00:01:16ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362022-01-0110564935650310.1109/ACCESS.2022.31784399783026Normalized Attraction Travel Personality Representation for Improving Travel Recommender SystemsTurki Alenezi0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2770-7933Stephen Hirtle1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9621-2769School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USASchool of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USATravel recommender systems (TRSs) aim to reduce travel-related search overload. A significant part of a TRS is representing attractions in a way that reflect the explicit and implicit features of attractions. However, traditional attraction representation methods may not provide a complete image of attractions. Building on the notions of user travel styles (UTSs) and the wisdom of crowds, we propose a method derived from topic-model-based models to represent travel attractions, called the Normalized Attraction Travel Personality (NATP) representation. This approach attempts to leverage the semantics of attraction reviews to model user travel personalities (UTPs), which collectively can construct the attraction travel personality (ATP) representation. Furthermore, we regularize and normalize the ATP representation to obtain our proposed representation. This NATP-based attraction representation could capture implicit characteristics of attractions revealed by the wisdom of crowds. Our experiments show that our representation method gained better results when evaluated against comparative approaches in terms of rating prediction and recommendation ranking quality, indicating the effectiveness of the proposed attraction representation. Lastly, we qualitatively investigate how our attraction representation surpasses the state-of-the-art representation methods.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9783026/Content-based filteringattraction representationknowledge discoverytravel stylestravel recommender systems |
| spellingShingle | Turki Alenezi Stephen Hirtle Normalized Attraction Travel Personality Representation for Improving Travel Recommender Systems IEEE Access Content-based filtering attraction representation knowledge discovery travel styles travel recommender systems |
| title | Normalized Attraction Travel Personality Representation for Improving Travel Recommender Systems |
| title_full | Normalized Attraction Travel Personality Representation for Improving Travel Recommender Systems |
| title_fullStr | Normalized Attraction Travel Personality Representation for Improving Travel Recommender Systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Normalized Attraction Travel Personality Representation for Improving Travel Recommender Systems |
| title_short | Normalized Attraction Travel Personality Representation for Improving Travel Recommender Systems |
| title_sort | normalized attraction travel personality representation for improving travel recommender systems |
| topic | Content-based filtering attraction representation knowledge discovery travel styles travel recommender systems |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9783026/ |
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