MyMap: Generating personalized tourist descriptions

摘要

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.