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Acquisition and Relevance of Geotagged Information in Tourism

Dickinger, Astrid and Scharl, Arno and Stern, Hermann and Weichselbraun, Albert and Wöber, Karl (2008) Acquisition and Relevance of Geotagged Information in Tourism. In: Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2008, Proceedings of the International Conference in Innsbruck, Austria, 2008. Springer, Vienna-New York, pp. 545-555.

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Abstract

In the case of tourism applications, it is particularly evident that geography is emerging as a fundamental principle for structuring Web resources. Recent improvements in semantic and geographic Web technology, often referred to as the Geospatial Web, acknowledge the relevance of adding location metadata to existing databases and accessing the vast amounts of information stored in these databases via geospatial services. This paper outlines the acquisition of geospatial context information, describes usage scenarios and real-world applications in the tourism industry, and presents an automated software tool for annotating large collections of Web documents automatically. The quality of this tool is tested based upon Web pages from the Austrian National Tourism Organization. Initial results are encouraging and help define a roadmap for further improving the automated tagging of tourism resources.

Item Type:Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:geotagging, text mining, information retrieval, tourism information systems
Subjects:Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Divisions:Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Electronics and Computer Science
ID Code:42
Deposited By: Dr Albert Weichselbraun
Deposited On:16 Apr 2012 07:06
Last Modified:16 Apr 2012 07:06

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